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India Cites Progress in Ending Heatwave Deaths

by Soila Apparicio

According to the NDMA, heat waves in India have accounted for over 22,000 deaths since 1992. In 2015, 2,040 Indians died in shocking heatwaves. Recent years have seen declines, to 1,111 in 2016 and 222 in 2017. Srivastava said the NDMA had launched “intense and sustained efforts for reduction in mortality.” This including assisting state governments to prepare heat action plans. This was particularly important because climate change has aggravated the problem.

For Some African-Americans, Meghan Markle is Reason to Celebrate

by Gina Cherelus

Brown is not a longtime devotee of all things royal, and she was not particularly interested in the House of Windsor before November. All that changed with the announcement of the wedding of the queen’s grandson to Markle, whose mother is black. “These are things that growing up I never would have thought that we would see,” Brown, 33, said, referring to a woman with African-American heritage becoming a royal in the United Kingdom. “I hope that women, but particularly black women, are able to see themselves in her and her mother, and know that there are no spaces that are not meant for us,” she said.