Ebola
On Friday, Sierra Leone’s government ordered everyone in the country to stay insides for three days straight, which suspended commerce, emptied streets and halted the nation in its tracks in an attempt stop the disease from spreading.
According to the New York Times, the struggle against Ebola a matter of life or death, the government mustered police officers, soldiers and nearly 30,000 volunteers to go house to house, hoping to educate the country about the dangers of Ebola and identify people who might pass the disease to those around them.
Climate Change
Thousands of people from all over the nation came to the heart of Manhattan where they demonstrated messages of alarm for world leaders set to gather this week at the United Nations for a summit meeting on climate change. According to New York Times, there were “scientists holding an oversize chalkboard to the Hurricane Sandy victims toting life preservers, the march was a self-consciously inclusive affair, with the organizers intent on creating a very big tent, which they hoped would hammer home the relevance of climate change and its effects.”
ISIS
On early Tuesday, the United States and allies launched airstrikes against Sunni militants in Syria, unleashing a torrent of cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs from the air and sea on the militants’ capital of Raqqa and along the Iraq border.
According to the New York times, American fighter jets and armed Predator and Reaper drones, flying alongside warplanes from several Arab allies, struck a broad array of targets in territory controlled by the militants, known as the Islamic State. American defense officials said the targets included weapons supplies, depots, barracks and buildings the militants use for command and control. Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from United States Navy ships in the region.
