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Harvey Weinstein is being moved to the infirmary at Rikers Island prison, after he was found guilty of third-degree rape and a first-degree criminal sex act last week.
New York, Apr 17 (EFE).- Nurses at a public hospital in New York, the global center of the Covid-19 pandemic, mounted a protest Friday over authorities' failure to provide them with masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) and a new rule requiring them to produce a doctor's note when they call in sick.(CAMERA: Justin Lane)
Nurses from the Bronx, including one who tested positive to COVID-19 a few days ago, hold a protest in the borough of Queens in New York, to denounce their working conditions. "The government has abandoned us. Our hospitals have abandoned us," says the President of the New York State Nurses Association during the protest. IMAGES
Police zip tie and arrest protesters at a pro-Palestinian rally called on by an organisation "Jewish Voice for Peace" outside Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home. Protesters were taken away by the police as they were shouting "Let Gaz live" and "Free Palestine". IMAGES
Dozens of organizations rally in New York to call for the end of US funding to Israel and for a ceasefire in Gaza. IMAGES