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Samoa goes door-to-door to fight measles, combat anti-vaccination messages – Reuters
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Samoa closed all non-essential public and private services on Thursday to combat a measles epidemic that has killed more than 60 people, mostly babies and young children, in a medical task complicated by a vocal anti-vaccination movement. The measles virus has so far infected more than 4,200 …
Jeremy Corbyn Bets Election on Plan to Rewire U.K. Economy – Bloomberg
The Labour leader’s proposed reforms are part of his long battle against Margaret Thatcher and her legacy. Young people are eating it up—but is that enough? Imagine living in a country where you only have to work four days a week, where higher education is free and so is child care for …
Iran is brutally suppressing popular dissent. The world is watching. – The Washington Post
As Iran guns down protesters at home, it’s also waging a global campaign of suppression against dissidents in the United States and other countries. Iran’s attacks on critics abroad have been brazen. In recent months, anti-regime activists have been kidnapped, murdered and harassed, according to news reports and interviews with …
French workers ready for long strike to fight pension change
PARIS (AP) — Large swathes of France’s workforce, spanning generations, will go on strike Thursday to protest the government’s planned overhaul of the pension system. Gathering in Paris, they want to vent their anger at the reform proposals that President Emmanuel Macron thinks are necessary to make the pension system …
A dangerous dive into a medieval mystery – BBC Reel
The Fosse Dionne is a mysterious spring at the heart of Tonnerre in France, with an unusually high flow of water. Since medieval times, myths and legends have evolved around the source of this spring, and divers who have tried to uncover its origins have lost their lives. Now a …
Greece and Turkey set for showdown over maritime borders | News | Al Jazeera
Turkey is laying claim to oil exploration in the eastern Mediterranean, and Greece objects. Athens, Greece – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are set to hold a tense meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in London on Wednesday, following Ankara’s announcement that it had reached an agreement …
Iran’s Rouhani calls for release of innocent, unarmed protesters – Reuters
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called on Wednesday for the release of any unarmed and innocent people who were detained during protests against gasoline price hikes, after two weeks of violent clashes. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during the National Insurance and Development Conference in Tehran, Iran, December …
Surge of new abuse claims threatens church like never before
NEW YORK (AP) — At the end of another long day trying to sign up new clients accusing the Roman Catholic Church of sexual abuse, lawyer Adam Slater gazes out the window of his high-rise Manhattan office at one of the great symbols of the church, St. Patrick’s Cathedral. “I …
North Korea’s Kim opens huge mountain development
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has opened a flagship construction project close to Mount Paektu, a symbol of the Korean nation and officially the birthplace of his father and predecessor, state media reported Tuesday. The ceremony was held in snowy scenes before thousands of soldiers and civilians, and portrayed as …
Dabous Giraffes – Niger – Atlas Obscura
These ancient giraffes are the largest known animal petroglyphs in the world. In the heart of the Sahara lies the Tenere Desert, a barren landscape whose name is literally translated to “where there is nothing.” But in this apparent nothingness lie more than 800 petroglyphs, including an exceptional carving …
Britain is kicking its addiction to fossil fuels – Daily chart
The country now generates more of its electricity from renewables THOMAS EDISON may be best remembered for his incandescent light bulb, but the American inventor also opened the world’s first coal-fired generator, the Edison Electric Light Station, in London in 1882. Though the project was short-lived—the plant was shut less …
