Before I forget…
Italy’s prospects for foreign-born workers remain scant, no matter how qualified they are. This comes as the country deals with a stagnant economy and an aging, shrinking population while worrying about migrants and the erosion of its language and culture. This didn’t stop the tourism ministry from passing off Slovenia as Italy in a recent promotion video.
Children account for most of the 109 bodies recovered from mass graves linked to a cult in Kenya.
An unnamed middleman in Mumbai provided a raw material used in Indian-made cough syrups that have been linked to the deaths of more than 70 children in Gambia.
China may give single women IVF access as the government tries to stem the country’s population decline.
Nepal granted a record number of Mount Everest climbing permits for this year. That means more traffic jams than ever at the death zone near the summit.
British anti-monarchists will gather along the procession route for King Charles III’s coronation by a statue of King Charles I, whose beheading in 1649 led to a short-lived republic.
A Dutch court ordered a man to stop donating sperm. Judges said he fathered as many as 600 children around the world, leading to fears of accidental incest and leading me to think it’s time to read “The Holcroft Covenant” again.
