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At least 6 shot in NYC near West Indian Day Festival parade route: cops

Brooklyn's joyous West Indian Days Parade turned bloody on Monday with at least six people shot along the route, authorities said. Police said shots were fired around 2:35 p.m. in the 300 block of Eastern Parkway, where a colorful celebration of Caribbean life was taking place. One male victim was shot in the head, another […]

NYC West Indian Day Carnival festivities kick off with J’Ouvert pre-dawn party

An annual celebration of Caribbean culture and traditions returns to Brooklyn with dancing, elaborate costumes, steel band floats and an early-morning party with calypso music. The early-rising tradition, named “J'Ouvert,” which means dawn, began at 6 a.m. Monday along Empire Boulevard and Nostrand Avenue in Flatbush. The parade will begin at the intersection of Empire […]

Searches for Video of Doctor’s Gruesome Rape and Murder Flood Indian Internet

Indian media reported a significant increase this week in Google internet searches for “rape video” and “rape porn” by users in the country, apparently searching for images of a doctor being brutally raped and murdered in a hospital seminar room. The horrific incident took place at a public hospital in Kolkata where the 31-year-old medical […]

Doctor Strike over Raped and Murdered Resident Overshadows Indian Independence Day

Thousands of people took to the streets across India on Independence Day Tuesday and Wednesday in support of doctors who are on strike to protest against widespread violence against them. The doctors’ strike began on Monday in response to a particularly heinous crime: the rape and murder of a 31-year-old medical intern at a public […]