Before I forget…
Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte tried to get political support to restrict immigration. He failed and the government collapsed.
Japan plans to release the equivalent of 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools full of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. There is some concern about safety.
The Orkney Islands are considering whether it might be better to rejoin Norway after more than 550 years under Scotland and then Britain.
Kyrgyzstan will allow adults to use “matronymics,” middle names based on their mothers’ names, rather than the standard patronymics adopted from Russian tradition. The activist who brought the court case now wants to ensure that children can have matronymics from birth.
Leqembi won a standard-approval nod from the FDA, the first Alzheimer’s treatment to achieve that goal, clearing the way for wider insurance coverage of the drug.
Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of the French commando unit that waded ashore on D-Day, died at the age of 100.
