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New York City’s Hotspots Sinking Faster Than Others, Reveals New NASA Report

The threat presented by the city’s sinking is being worsened by increasing sea levels.

New York City is collapsing beneath the weight of its own city and among the first areas to be affected by such a tragedy are LaGuardia Airport, Arthur Ashe Stadium and Coney Island, according to a recent NASA report. The five boroughs of New York City are sinking more quickly than the city as a whole, which is sinking at a rate of 1.6 millimetres annually, according to research conducted by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Rutgers University.

According to research published in Science Advances, from 2016 to 2023, the US Open Venue- Arthur Ashe Stadium and runways at LaGuardia airport saw the most sinking, lowering at rates of 3.7 and 4.6 millimetres per year, respectively. These two locations may have sunk the fastest since they were both constructed over previous landfills.

Further, the threat presented by the city’s sinking is being worsened by increasing sea levels. Hurricanes and extratropical storms have caused coastal flooding in the city, among other problems. One of the examples is Superstorm Sandy of 2012 which devastated the city.

“Protecting coastal populations and assets from coastal flooding is an ongoing challenge for New York City. The combined effect of natural sea level variations and destructive storms is being increasingly exacerbated by ongoing sea level rise,” the researchers wrote in the report.

NASA research also added that Interstate 78, which passes through the Holland Tunnel that connects Manhattan to New Jersey, is also sinking at nearly double the rate of the rest of the city. The southern half of Governors Island, Midland and South Beach in Staten Island and Arverne by the Sea, a coastal neighbourhood in southern Queens are also sinking faster.

The report was released after the United States Geological Survey discovered earlier this year that the New York metropolis’s more than 1 million buildings weigh close to 1.7 trillion pounds and that the city was gradually collapsing under its own weight. The report stated that the city was sinking at the rate of 1-2 millilitres per year. The researchers arrived at the result by comparing the geology beneath the city to satellite data showing its footprint.

“New York faces significant challenges from flood hazard; the threat of sea level rise is 3 to 4 times higher than the global average along the Atlantic coast of North America… A deeply concentrated population of 8.4 million people faces varying degrees of hazard from inundation in New York City,” lead researcher and geologist Tom Parsons of the United States Geological Survey wrote in the report in May.

The team of researchers calculated the cumulative mass of the more than 1 million buildings in New York City, which worked out to be 764,000,000,000 kilograms or 1.68 trillion pounds. They divided the city into a grid of 100-by-100-metre squares and converted building mass to downward pressure by factoring in gravity’s pull. Increased urbanisation, including the draining and pumping of groundwater, could only add to New York’s subsidence problem, the researchers warned earlier.

How much would Barcelona pay to make Cancelo, Felix deals permanent? Atletico, City’s asking price revealed: Report

The Portuguese duo of Joao Cancelo and Joao Felix joined Barcelona on the summer transfer deadline day. While Felix arrived from Atletico Madrid, Cancelo left Manchester City to join Barcelona. The two Portuguese internationals arrived at Camp Nou on loan moves. Both Cancelo and Felix have made impressive starts to their stints at Barcelona and it is being learnt that the team management could consider acquiring the services of them on a permanent basis. According to Mundo Deportivo, the Catalan giants are likely to pay their La Liga rivals Atletico Madrid around €80 million ($85 million) to secure Felix’s permanent signing. The report went on to claim that Barcelona may have to shell out around €25 million ($26 million) for Cancelo.

Barcelona’s Joao Felix, right, celebrates with his teammate Joao Cancelo after scoring.(AP)

Felix himself recently confessed that Barcelona have turned out to be the “ideal place” for him. “I honestly didn’t expect it. I believed, and still believe, that this is the ideal place for me but the truth is that things are going very, very well and I didn’t expect them to go so well. Let them continue like this and let it be like this until the end,” he said during an interaction with Mundo Deportivo.

Joao Felix has had a sensational start to his career at Barcelona having netted three goals in as many games across all competitions. Making his Champions League debut for Barcelona, the 23-year-old winger recorded a brace and an assist against Belgian side Royal Antwerp this week. Felix, who was a part of Chelsea last season, admitted that he had to take a pay cut to join Barcelona on a loan move this summer.

“It’s true I gave up a significant part of my salary, but I needed a change. I needed to come to a place where I can play my style of football and I have always said I think this is the ideal place. Things are going well – I didn’t expect to start so well – and it was an effort I needed to make to be able to find joy playing football again,” Felix said.

Joao Cancelo, on the other hand, has proved to be another terrific option for Barcelona. The 29-year-old defender has already netted one goal for Barcelona having played three matches for them across all competitions.

Barcelona kicked off their La Liga title defence on a promising note having remained unbeaten so far in the competition this season. Xavi’s men have claimed four wins having played five Spanish league games. With 13 points to their name, Barcelona are placed in second position in the La Liga standings. In their next outing, Barcelona will be up against Celta Vigo in La Liga on Saturday.

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Democrat DA suing Sacramento leaders to clean up city’s homeless crisis: ‘I’m calling them out’

Sacramento County’s Democratic district attorney is demanding answers and enforcement of the law as homeless encampments continue to overwhelm the liberal-run city.

District Attorney Thien Ho announced Tuesday that his office had filed a civil lawsuit alleging the city violated California civic code – specifically that it “allowed, created and enabled a public safety crisis” regarding the homeless.

“This is a local crisis made worse by local decisions,” Ho told “America’s Newsroom” Thursday.

“We’re going to get a judge, we’re going to get a jury, and we’re going to require the city to do what it’s supposed to do, enforce the law, keep our streets clean and safe. And that’s what we’re going to do.”

The unsheltered population in Sacramento is up 71% since 2019, co-anchor Bill Hemmer reported. Daily incidents include physical and verbal assault, public sex acts, open fires, nudity, urinating and defecating on walkways, the complaint claims; all of which, Ho says, threaten the safety of jurors, victims and witnesses during ongoing trials, as homeless people engage in “erratic and violent behavior.”

“In the last 7 years, Sacramento’s unhoused population has exploded by over 250%,” the lawsuit says. “There are more homeless people in Sacramento than San Francisco. Our community is at a breaking point. We have an unhoused population living in conditions typical of Third World countries. And we have the rest of the community stuck between compassion and chaos.”

“How did we get here? We are stuck in this never-ending Groundhog’s Day loop where nothing gets better and nothing improves,” Ho added at Tuesday’s press conference. “Enough is enough.”

Ho is also calling for an audit in Sacramento to see how funding from the state of California has been used by Democrat leaders.

“The governor’s given plenty of resources to the local authorities and those resources have been squandered,” Ho said. “Where did all that money go locally?”

The lawsuit says both Judge Michael Bowman and District Attorney Ho wrote letters to the city of Sacramento in late June sounding the alarm to how the growing homeless encampment and tents within a three-block radius of the courthouse encroach on the community’s access to justice.

In response, Mayor Darrell Steinberg assured he was working with the city manager to open up the “Miller Park Safe Camping” within two weeks, yet the situation has continued to deteriorate, the lawsuit says.

Additionally, the complaint claims the Sacramento Police Department is not issuing citations for unlawful camping storage, sidewalk obstruction or any other code violations to laws already on the books regarding homeless encampment, meaning the city’s enforcement is “non-existent.”

“As a top prosecutor, I’m calling them out on that and will make sure they enforce the law,” Ho said.

In response to the lawsuit Tuesday, City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood said in a statement, “It sadly appears the DA would rather point fingers and cast blame than partner to achieve meaningful solutions for our community,” according to The Associated Press.

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City’s ‘disastrous’ and chaotic car free day cost taxpayers thousands of pounds

Thousands of pounds of taxpayer money were spent on a car-free day in Liverpool which saw one of the city centre’s major routes closed – before being abandoned just hours later.

Almost 12 months ago large parts of the Strand were shut down to encourage people to leave their cars and find alternative ways to travel.

Liverpool Council planned to close the road for six hours with a variety of activities on offer to promote alternatives.

However, amid complaints and bad weather the project on the waterfront road – from Chapel Street to James Street – was closed after a few hours.

Liverpool Council planned to close the road for six hours with a variety of activities on offer to promote active travel alternatives

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Now, data released under the Freedom of Information Act has revealed that the scheme used a total of £37,361 of local authority money to close the roads last September.

Almost £9,000 was used for traffic management, with an another £4,800 needed for stewarding.

Problems sparked last year with large queues of traffic building up around the city centre, while images and video of the long tailbacks were posted on social media.

Cllr Dan Barrington, cabinet member for climate change and environment, told a select committee that he acknowledged the scheme was going to be “controversial” and communication of the plans could have been better.

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As part of the project, a further £2,074 was spent on staff costs for the road closure and £258 went towards printing.

The event was criticised and branded on social media as “a disaster”.

Cllr Liam Robinson, leader of Liverpool Council, told the Liverpool Echo: “A lot of lessons have been learnt and we fully appreciate something that was done with the right intent didn’t work out well.

“Partly the weather didn’t help but we can’t blame the weather alone and I’m not seeking to do that.

The event was criticised and branded on social media as ‘a disaster’

“From our perspective we know there’s a lot we can learn for this year’s car free day and future car free activities. One of the things we’re very conscious of is we don’t just want to do appropriate car free activities solely on car free day.”

Cllr Carl Cashman, leader of the opposition Liberal Democrats group added: “It is shocking but not unexpected that the council has wasted £37,000 on a botched car free day.

“This is another item on the list of waste from this council. I fully understand the need to reduce the city’s carbon footprint, particularly with how poor our air quality is.

“However, initiatives such as the car free day need to be done the right way and this hasn’t happened. What we saw last year was chaos and congestion, which probably led to a worse outcome for the local environment.”

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Man City 3-1 West Ham: Bernardo Silva, Erling Halaand orchestrate City’s comeback

Both Manchester City and West Ham United are looking to extend their unbeaten runs in the Premier League.

Man City vs West Ham Live: Premier League LIVE – MCI vs WHU LIVE – One of the two unbeaten teams of the Premier League so far will lock horns on Saturday. West Ham United are looking to keep a hold of their unbeaten run at the start of the season. They are also occupying the 4th position in the league table. Hence, they will try their best to keep their place in the top 4. Meanwhile, Man City will want to keep onto their 100% winning streak.

West Ham United XI:

Areola, Coufal, Zouma, Aguerd, Emerson, Alvarez, Soucek, Ward-Prowse, Paqueta, Bowen, Antonio.

Subs: Fabianski, Cresswell, Fornals, Kudus, Mavropanos, Ings, Ogbonna, Benrahma, Kehrer.

Manchester City XI:

Ederson, Walker, Dias, Guardiol, Akanji, Rodriguez, Silva, Foden, Alvarez, Doku, Haaland.

Subs: Ortega, Carson, Phillips, Ake, Gomez, Nunes, Bobb, Lewis.

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West Ham United won the Europa Conference League last season. They are still flying high since that win with 3 wins and a draw in their first 4 Premier League matches. It has been 24 years since the Hammers have had such a good start to their season. They’re sitting in 4th position in the league table with 10 points from 4 matches. They will look to keep up their unbeaten run, but that can become tricky as they will be facing the reigning champions Man City.

Manchester City are the only club to start the season with 4 straight wins. Their opening win was by a 3-0 margin against Burnley. Even though they won both of their next matches by just a 1-goal margin, they came back with a 5-1 win against Fulham where Erling Haaland scored his very first hattrick of the season. They were already leading with 2 goals in the first half before Haaland started striking. They will again look to sail past the Hammers but will face a tough test.

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Match – Man City vs West Ham

Date – 16th September

Time – 7:30 PM IST

Live Telecast – Premier League’s rights are owned by the Star Sports Network. Hence the matches will be broadcast on various Star Sports channels. The fans will get to watch English commentary on Star Sports Select and apart from that regional fans will also get the opportunity to watch the match in their favorite language. Regional commentary in Bangla and Malayalam will be made available for key weekend matches on Star Sports 3 and Star Sports 1 Bangla.

Live Streaming – The match will be live-streamed on Disney+ Hotstar VIP. The fans will have to subscribe to Hotstar’s VIP plan to stream the Premier League matches live. Indian Premier League fans can also stream the match live on Jio TV.

West Ham United Full Squad

#1 Fabianski, #23 Areola, #49 Mother; #2 Johnson, #3 Cresswell, #4 Zouma, #5 Coufal, #15 Mavropanos, #21 Ogbonna, #24 Kehrer, #27 Aguerd, #33 Emerson; #7 Ward-Prowse, #8 Fornals, #10 Packet, #14 Kudus, #19 Alvarez, #28 Soucek, #32 Coventry; #9 Antonio, #17 Cornet, #18 Ings, #20 Bowen, #22 Benrahma, #45 Mubama

Manchester City Full Squad

#13 Steffen, #18 Ortega, #31 Ederson, #33 Carson; #2 Walker, #3 Dias, #5 Stones, #6 Ake, #7 Cancelo, #24 Gvardiol, #25 Akanji, #82 Lewis; #4 Phillips, #8 Kovacic, #10 Grealish, #16 Rodriguez, #17 De Bruyne, #20 Silva, #21 Gomez, #27 Nunes, #47 Foden, #52 Bobb; #9 Haaland, #11 Doku, #19 Alvarez

New Mexico governor suspends guns in city’s parks, playgrounds

Sept 15 – New Mexico’s governor on Friday narrowed her heavily criticized blanket suspension on the right to carry guns in the state’s largest metropolitan area to one just covering parks and playgrounds in Albuquerque and its surrounding county.

Michelle Lujan Grisham framed the initial suspension, which a federal judge blocked after gun rights activists challenged it, and Friday’s new order as a public health response to deaths of children in gun violence, including the killing last week of an 11-year-old boy in an apparent Albuquerque road rage incident. Her unusual moved pulled New Mexico into a national debate on gun rights and public safety.

“I’m going to continue pushing to make sure that all of us are using every resource available to put an end to this public health emergency with the urgency it deserves,” the Democratic governor said in a statement.

A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily froze the firearms provisions of Lujan Grisham’s initial health order pending further litigation. National gun rights advocates had argued, and the judge agreed, that her 30-day suspension of firearm carry rights in all areas of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County went against a landmark 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on gun rights.

Democrat leaders of both chambers of New Mexico’s legislature backed Lujan Grisham’s modified firearms suspension at a Friday press conference. Her earlier ban had met opposition from some Democrats including the state’s attorney general, as well as Albuquerque and Bernalillo county police.

In response to the modified firearms restrictions, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said the city had already banned guns from almost all city parks in 2020.

Keller on Wednesday urged Lujan Grisham to call a special session of the state legislature on gun violence.

Lujan Grisham on Friday said she had no plan to call a special session as she believed her public health order, which includes measures on drugs and juvenile offenders, would at this time achieve more than new legislation.

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NY House Democrats rallied for city’s migrants. Then conservative protesters showed up.

“The American dream will not be bullied into submission,” he added.

The delegation that gathered Friday also included Reps. Jerry Nadler, Nydia Velázquez and Jamaal Bowman, as well as House Democrats with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus representing other states.

The Roosevelt Hotel was the scene of single adult migrants sleeping on the sidewalk in late July when beds couldn’t be made available to them.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams have long called for funding from Washington and routes to get migrants working legally. And their pleas for federal intervention have become increasingly desperate with 60,000 migrants in city’s care overwhelming its infrastructure.

President Joe Biden has limited authority to expedite work permits, but Ocasio-Cortez urged more temporary protective status, or TPS, options — something that Biden can do unilaterally.

She said the House members on the scene were unified in their push for more aid for New York City.

Congress must approve more federal funding, and it would take congressional action to reform immigration law, which is not a priority under Republican House control.

Republicans, including Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, want Biden to “secure the border” first.

“I hope AOC and her Democrat colleagues got the message today that New Yorkers are fed up with President Biden’s open border policies that are wreaking havoc in their city,” Malliotakis said in a statement.

On Friday, Ocasio-Cortez, frequently the target of attacks from right-leaning demonstrators, could hardly be heard above the jeering, and she was forced to leave while her colleagues broke into smaller groups to speak with reporters.

The small but loud group of protesters waved signs discouraging migrant work permission, used a megaphone and lobbed curse words.

Velázquez made a reference to a federal government funding deadline that looms as the House Republican caucus remains deadlocked.

“Republicans want to end this crisis? We need to keep the government open,” she said.

Nadler said he supports funding for shelter services and other programs in a supplemental budget. Bowman called for additional resources to process asylum applications.

He gestured to the people shouting nearby.

“What’s going on around here with this small minority is just hateful rhetoric,” Bowman said. “They’re forgetting that their ancestors came here from other places. This is the land of the indigenous Native Americans.”

Behold: New York City’s Trash Can of the Future

Coming to a street corner near you: a sleek new litter basket, the latest weapon in New York City’s generations-long war on trash.

The new receptacle, which will replace the green wire mesh litter baskets seen across the city, has three parts: a concrete base (so it’s tough to tip over); a hinged metal lid; and a removable, relatively lightweight plastic basket that sanitation workers will lift and empty.

“The wire litter baskets are iconic, but they are well past their useful life in New York City,” said Jessica Tisch, the city’s sanitation commissioner. “They are vestiges of a different time.”

Ms. Tisch noted that the wire baskets were made up of a series of holes: “That’s the fundamental design feature which allows the rats to get in them,” she said.

“The one thing that actually no one wants to see is all the trash,” she added. “So why are they mesh in 2023? It doesn’t make sense.”

The new trash cans, alongside efforts to require certain residences and businesses to put their garbage on the streets in containers and to mandate composting (not to mention hiring a “installment char”), are part of a broad push to clean up the city — an undertaking that also includes using social media to scold businesses that have not complied with the new rules.

“First we are issuing warnings for certain cases of people or businesses not following new rules,” Ms. Tisch said. “But if we have to call you out, we also will.”

There are 22,000 litter baskets on the streets of New York City and the plan is, over time, to replace all of them with what Ms. Tisch calls “this new, more modern litter basket of the future.”

It is not the first time New York City has attempted to revolutionize street trash.

The city held a litter basket design contest in 1930 and stated that the baskets “would serve as the emblem of their work for outdoor cleanliness and would tend to make every citizen ‘litter conscious.’”

Decades later, in 2002, the city put out newer, lighter wire modelsand the green mesh Corcraft baskets became emblematic of New York.

The new 2023 basket started with a design competition, launched in 2018. A winner was announced in 2019. “And then basically in the four years since, nothing really happened,” Ms. Tisch said.

(Actually, two major things happened: The coronavirus pandemic arrived, and the former mayor, Bill de Blasio, left after a new mayor, Eric Adams, took office.)

Eventually, the Department of Sanitation tweaked the design from the contest, making the basket bigger, adding a coating of graffiti-resistant paint, and moving the perforations up higher to deter rats.

Just 300 baskets are in the first phase of the replacement plan, but another thousand are on the way. The city will order more in the months to come.

In addition to being lighter, the new bins are easier to store and transport, explained Greg Anderson, the sanitation department’s deputy commissioner for policy and strategic initiatives.

For events like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or the New York City Marathon, corner litter baskets are removed for security reasons. Only 30 of the old wire baskets fit on a truck, but the new ones are stackable: 120 per truck. “It makes the operation much more efficient,” Mr. Anderson said.

Not everyone is happy to see the green mesh litter baskets disappear.

“I will be a bit sad to see them go,” Micah Belamarich, 38, the co-founder and creative director of OnlyNY, wrote in an email. The company, an independent clothing brand offering New York City-inspired apparel, sells a tiny version of the green mesh litter basket that can be used as a pen holder. It is one of the company’s top-selling products.

Mr. Belamarich, who was born and raised in Morningside Heights, added that the mesh basket’s design “feels timeless and nostalgic at the same time.”

Still, on a recent Monday morning on Washington Street in Brooklyn, Norm Yun, 50, was out walking his chocolate lab, Sooni, when he saw the new trash receptacles as a photographer hovered around them, shutter snapping.

Mr. Yun called the new baskets “beautiful, gorgeous, amazing,” and said “it was about time” the mesh baskets were replaced. “Not for nothing, but those green things were a little old.”

Libyan city’s death toll from devastating storm climbs to more than 5,000 people | CBC News

The death toll from flooding that hit the eastern Libyan city of Derna reached more than 5,000 and was expected to rise further, a local health official said Wednesday, as authorities struggled to get aid to the coastal city where thousands remained missing and tens of thousands were homeless.

Aid workers who managed to reach the city, which was cut off Sunday night when flash floods washed away most of the access roads, described devastation in the city’s centre, where search and rescue teams combed shattered apartment buildings for bodies and retrieved floating bodies offshore.

“Bodies are everywhere, inside houses, in the streets, at sea. Wherever you go, you find dead men, women, and children,” Emad al-Falah, an aid worker from Benghazi, said over the phone from Derna. “Entire families were lost.”

Mediterranean storm Daniel caused deadly flooding in many towns of eastern Libya, but the worst-hit was Derna. As the storm pounded the coast Sunday, residents said they heard loud explosions when the dams outside the city collapsed. Floodwaters washed down Wadi Derna, a river running from the mountains through the city and into the sea.

Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns, though the destruction appeared greatest in Derna, shown here on Tuesday. (Jamal Alkomaty/The Associated Press)

The startling devastation pointed to the storm’s intensity, but also Libya’s vulnerability. The country is divided by rival governments, one in the east, the other in the west, and the result has been neglect of infrastructure in many areas.

Derna is controlled by the forces of powerful military commander Khalifa Haftar, who is allied with the east Libya government. The rival government in west Libya, based in Tripoli some 900 km away is allied with other armed groups.

Collapsed bridges, roads

The floods damaged or destroyed many access roads to Derna, which lies on a narrow coastal plain on the Mediterranean under steep mountains running along the coast. Of seven roads leading to the city, only two are accessible from its southern edge.

Bridges over the river Derna that link the city’s eastern and western parts have also collapsed, according to the UN migration agency. The destruction has hampered the arrival of international rescue teams and humanitarian assistance to tens of thousands of people whose homes were destroyed or damaged.

“The city of Derna was submerged by waves seven metres high that destroyed everything in their path,” Yann Fridez, head of the delegation of the International Committee for The Red Cross in Libya, told France24. “The human toll is enormous.”

Members of Libyan Red Crescent Ajdabiya work in an area affected by damage from the storm Daniel, in Derna on Tuesday. (Libyan Red Crescent Ajdabiya/Reuters)

Ossama Ali, a spokesperson for the Ambulance and Emergency Center in eastern Libya, said at least 5,100 deaths were recorded in Derna, along with around 100 others elsewhere in eastern Libya. More than 7,000 people were injured in the city, most receiving treatment in field hospitals that authorities and aid agencies set up, he told The Associated Press by phone on Wednesday.

The number of deaths is likely to increase since search and rescue teams are still collecting bodies from the streets, buildings and the sea, he said.

At least 30,000 people in Derna were displaced by the flooding, the UN migration agency said. The damage is so extensive that the city is almost inaccessible for humanitarian aid workers, the International Organization for Migration said.

International aid pledged

Local emergency responders, including troops, government workers, volunteers and residents, continued digging through rubble looking for the dead. They also used inflatable boats and helicopters to retrieve bodies from the water and inaccessible areas.

Ahmed Abdalla, a survivor who joined the search and rescue effort, said they were putting bodies in the yard of a local hospital before taking them for burial in mass graves at the city’s sole intact cemetery.

“The situation is indescribable. Entire families dead in this disaster. Some were washed away to the sea,” Abdalla said by phone from Derna.

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Thousands of people are dead and thousands more missing after devastating floods in Libya, made worse by years of political instability and chaos.

Bulldozers worked over the past two days to fix and clear roads to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid and heavy equipment urgently needed for the search and rescue operations. The city is 250 kilometres east of Benghazi, where international aid started to arrive on Tuesday.

Libya’s neighbours, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia, as well as Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, have sent rescue teams and humanitarian aid.

Authorities have transferred hundreds of bodies to morgues in nearby towns. In the city of Tobruk, 169 kilometres east of Derna, the Medical Center of Tobruk’s morgue received more than 300 bodies for people killed in the Derna flooding; among them were 84 Egyptians, according to a list of dead obtained by The Associated Press.

President Joe Biden also said the United States is sending emergency funds to relief organizations and co-ordinating with the Libyan authorities and the UN to provide additional support.

Ahmed Hussen, Canada’s minister of international development, said on Monday the federal government is “monitoring the situation and are assessing how we can support the people of Libya in the wake of the devastating flooding.”

Behold: New York City’s Trash Can of the Future

Coming to a street corner near you: a sleek new litter basket, the latest weapon in New York City’s generations-long war on trash.

Ms. Tisch noted that the wire baskets were made up of a series of holes: “That’s the fundamental design feature which allows the rats to get in them,” she said.

“The one thing that actually no one wants to see is all the trash,” she added. “So why are they mesh in 2023? It doesn’t make sense.”

“First we are issuing warnings for certain cases of people or businesses not following new rules,” Ms. Tisch said. “But if we have to call you out, we also will.”

There are 22,000 litter baskets on the streets of New York City and the plan is, over time, to replace all of them with what Ms. Tisch calls “this new, more modern litter basket of the future.”

It is not the first time New York City has attempted to revolutionize street trash.

In 1951, the city experimented with wire mesh baskets — and in 1956, a giant wire wastebasket was placed in Times Square. It was regularly filled with detritus swept from the street, and a sign affixed to the monster bin spoke directly to New Yorkers: “THIS LITTER BELONGS TO YOU.”

Litter baskets were painted various colors in 1966, an attempt to give them some “sex appeal.” But the metal baskets proved too appealing: A 1978 Times article reported that 5,000 litter baskets were stolen every year.

The city experimented with harder-to-steal 470-pound concrete containers with advertising on the sides, but the plan was a failure (the liners got stolen, the opening was too small and the locks were broken) — so wire baskets returned.