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Israeli forces shelled a Gaza school hosting a wedding, killing at least six Palestinians, including a baby, and delaying emergency response efforts; this incident is part of ongoing Israeli-Palestinian violence amid international negotiations.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has announced that she has graduated from "school strikes" after campaigning for climate change for two years. The 20-year-old Swedish student, who took a year off to campaign, began protesting outside Sweden's parliament in 2018, leading to various movements across Europe, the US and Australia. Thunberg has vowed to continue protesting on Fridays, even though she is no longer technically "school striking", saying "we simply have no other option than to do everything we possibly can. The fight has only just begun."
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg participated in her final school strike after 251 consecutive weeks of demonstrations, warning that "the fight has only just begun." Thunberg's act inspired a global protest for climate action, with millions of children in over 180 countries taking part in school strikes for the climate in 2019. The world's leading climate scientists have urged government leaders to embark on an urgent course correction to tackle the climate emergency, warning that current plans were insufficient to prevent the worst of the crisis.
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environmental activist who started the Fridays for Future movement, has announced that she will no longer be able to skip classes as a way to draw attention to climate change because she is graduating from high school. However, she has vowed to continue protesting, saying that "the fight has only just begun." Thunberg has urged the media to focus on other young activists, and Fridays for Future participants planned to protest outside U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, on Friday to urge governments to do more to curb global warming.
The Los Angeles Unified School District school worker strike has left parents scrambling to find childcare, many cobbling together creative solutions to keep their children on track with school, while also working their full-time jobs. Parents are frustrated with the lack of support from the school system, which is shut down. Some parents are taking their children to work or notifying individual professors of their situation and asking if they can bring their children to classes. The strike has left many parents concerned about the learning time that’s lost for all children during the strike.
A strike destroyed Russian cruise missiles in Russian-occupied Crimea, as both countries host world leaders this week. Officials in New York and Washington, DC, are preparing for potential protests as a grand jury weighs possible charges in Donald Trump’s alleged role in a scheme to pay hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Emergency officials in California are dispatching swift-water rescue teams, hand crews and bulldozers in several counties as they anticipate another atmospheric river will dump more rain and snow in the state. A union representing 30,000 Los Angeles school custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and other support staff will begin a three-day strike today. A drug-resistant and potentially deadly fungus is spreading fast in US health care facilities, according to a new study.