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Los Angeles (AFP) - Almost 2,000 people who died during the first year of the Covid pandemic and whose bodies were never claimed were laid to rest in Los Angeles on Thursday. The cremated remains were put in a communal grave in a ceremony attended by religious and political leaders, as well as several dozen members of the public. "In 2020 sadly 1,937 residents passed away without a next of kin coming forward to claim their remains. And it is those lives that we honor... today," said LA County Supervisor Hilda Solis. "We know the desperate impact that Covid-19 had on our most vulnerable communi...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - When Carlos Schmidt beds down on the hard streets of Los Angeles, he has nothing but a backpack and an old blanket, like thousands of other homeless people in one of the richest cities in the world's richest country. "At nighttime, I just find somewhere quiet like a park or a bus bench, where there's not a lot of chaos," the 37-year-old told AFP. "And I'll try to rest up right there for as long as I can." Schmidt is one of some 75,500 people living on the streets of Los Angeles and its sprawling suburbs, according to a January survey. The figure is up 70 percent since 2015,...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Proposed high-speed rail lines in the western United States moved a step closer to reality Tuesday with the announcement of $6 billion in government grants. The cash will come from President Joe Biden's signature infrastructure bill aimed at revamping the country's creaking railways, roads and bridges, and is part of a plan to double the number of people taking the train by 2040. Half of the cash will go towards the construction of a high-speed line spanning 218 miles (350 kilometers) between Las Vegas and downtown Los Angeles, slashing the current five-hour car journey ti...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A state of emergency over spiraling levels of homelessness was declared in Los Angeles on Monday as the new mayor pledged a "seismic shift" for one of the most intractable problems in America's second biggest city. Tens of thousands of people sleep rough on Los Angeles streets every night, in an epidemic that shocks many visitors to one of the wealthiest urban areas on the planet. Mental health problems and substance abuse issues are rife among the population, whose tents and rusting RVs scar the city. Mayor Karen Bass, who was sworn into office Sunday, used her first full ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Los Angeles looks set to ban oil drilling in the city after councillors voted Wednesday to stop the construction of new wells and wind down those already operating. While Hollywood, palm trees and sunny skies may be the popular image of the second biggest city in the United States, the metropolis is also the largest urban oil field in the country. Thousands of active wells sit in densely populated and mostly low-income neighborhoods, abutting schools, homes, parks, shopping malls or cemeteries. Though the heaving pump jacks are a part of the landscape, residents and enviro...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Christmas came early -- June, to be precise -- at the port of Los Angeles, as American importers raced to get ahead of a pandemic-sparked logjam that has snarled global shipping. The port, North America's busiest container terminal, began 24-hour operations Thursday after the White House intervened to help ease bottlenecks that are choking commerce and pushing up prices. Still, dozens of ships carrying hundreds of thousands of containers remained at anchor outside the harbor, waiting for a berth on docks packed to capacity. Many will wait more than 10 days. "We're busy," Po...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Drinkers in Los Angeles will need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 starting next month, authorities said Wednesday, as mandates spread across the United States. Bars and nightclubs in Los Angeles county will be required to check that patrons have had the shot, the health department said, in the same way they demand proof of age. The county, home to around 10 million people, joins New York City in making jabs compulsory for swathes of the entertainment industry, in a country that has not yet fully embraced the life-saving vaccines. "This is a reasonable path forward that co...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - In a West Hollywood nightclub, people flirted, danced, and got close -- all mostly unmasked -- despite the fact that on Sunday at midnight, Los Angeles became the first US city to order a return to masks indoors. At Revolver, a bar blasting out Madonna's best hits, clubbers were warned in the queue -- no mask, no entry. The ultimatum sent one young man, David, scrambling to the nearest supermarket to buy one so as to not miss precious dancing time. But once inside the venue, despite rising Covid infection rates, it was a different story. "I feel a little out of place," ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Los Angeles and Google have struck a partnership to track canopy density in the huge metropolis to determine which neighborhoods need more trees as a means of fighting extreme temperatures.Vegetation, notably tree canopy coverage, plays a key role in offering the kind of relief that Los Angeles needs: The city is the state's biggest urban heat island thanks in no small part to thousands of miles of roads and parking spaces.A project with Google's new Tree Canopy Lab is making it "possible for us to quickly assess the areas of our city with the greatest population density an...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - No sooner had the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh escalated last month than the huge Armenian community in Los Angeles began mobilizing to send food, medical equipment and other supplies to the "homeland.""The second it started, we were like 'what are we going to do?' and we started working immediately," said Sosse Krikorian, who spoke with AFP this week near Los Angeles as she sorted aid destined for the tiny enclave at the heart of the fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia.The territory -- referred to as the Republic of Artsakh by Armenians -- is recognized as part of Azer...
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