Italy grapples with wildfires, heat and hailstorms
CNN — Italy is facing multiple kinds of extreme weather at once, with southern parts of the country scorched by blistering heat, while the north is battered by deadly storms.…
Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announces retirement from politics
CNN — Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will not seek re-election and will retire from politics, his party said Tuesday. The announcement came two days before Thailand’s parliament was set…
Milan fire: Six people killed at retirement home
Reuters — An overnight fire in a retirement home in Milan killed six people and injured around 80, including three who are in a critical condition, Italian authorities said on…
South Korea shuts childcare centers and opens elderly facilities as population ages
Seoul, South Korea CNN — South Korea is getting older – and its care facilities are changing to match. The number of child care facilities in the country has shrunk…
Huwara: The settler attack on this West Bank town was called a ‘pogrom’ by Israel’s military. Videos show soldiers did little to stop it
CNN — When hundreds of Israeli settlers rampaged through Huwara and surrounding Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank on February 26, leaving at least one Palestinian man dead and…
Caged and cut open for bile: The fight to free Asia’s farmed bears
CNN — When the call came in, the staff at Animals Asia jumped into action. A bear in Vietnam’s northeastern Haiphong region had been kept captive for years, her bile…
Italy’s birth rate is at a record low. Young Italians say they can’t afford to have babies
Rome CNN — Italy, a country once known for its big families gathered around the dinner table, is facing a crisis of unparalleled proportions. For the first time, the number…
Ratingen Germany: Explosion at apartment building leaves several injured
CNN — Two police officers and several firefighters were injured in an explosion at a block of flats in western Germany on Thursday as they attended an emergency call. The…
Drought-stricken Spain is running dry, with disappearing lakes, dead crops and trucked-in water
Catalonia, Spain CNN — Standing in his field of stunted, withered maize, Santi Caudevilla is very worried. “If the weather does not change it will be zero. Nothing is going…
France pension protests explained: France is still mad — but can the protests last?
Paris CNN — Clashes erupted in Paris on Monday marking May 1, a traditional day of union-led marches, in the wake of hugely unpopular changes to France’s pension system that…