State Department issues travel alert for all of Europe this summer

Just in time for the summer tourist season, the State Department has issued a new travel alert for all of Europe due to the threat of terrorist attacks on the continent. This is the fourth travel alert for Europe in the last year. There were only four months since March of 2016 when the State […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/05/01/state-department-issues-travel-alert-for-all-of-europe-this-summer/

Ethiopia is facing a killer drought. But it’s going almost unnoticed.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The announcement by the United Nations in March that 20 million people in four countries were teetering on the edge of famine stunned the world and rammed home the breadth of the humanitarian crisis faced by so many in 2017. Yet even as donors struggle to meet the severe needs in […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/05/01/ethiopia-is-facing-a-killer-drought-but-its-going-almost-unnoticed/

Dubai promotes its very own font as a sign of free expression. Others disagree.

Dubai has a grand announcement: The city now has its very own typographic font. The new “Dubai Font” integrates the Arabic and Roman alphabets and will be available for use in 23 languages. The font will soon be used by the Dubai government in all official correspondence, Crown Prince Sheik Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/05/01/dubai-promotes-its-very-own-font-as-a-sign-of-free-expression-others-disagree/

Outside a Le Pen rally, Macron memorializes a Moroccan killed by National Front supporters in 1995

With less than a week to go before the second and final round of the French presidential election, the two candidates are trading harsh taunts. Marine Le Pen of the populist, far-right National Front used her last big rally to call her centrist rival, former banker Emmanuel Macron, a representative of “the caviar left” and […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/05/01/outside-a-le-pen-rally-macron-memorializes-a-moroccan-killed-by-national-front-supporters-in-1995/

In Jordan, you can no longer escape punishment for rape by marrying your victim

The stories are awful — one woman says she was just 20 when her 55-year-old boss slipped her two pills he said would make her headache better. Instead, she lost consciousness. When she woke up, she was naked. And, she quickly realized, she'd been raped. “I couldn't tell my family what had happened. I cried and […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/04/30/in-jordan-you-can-no-longer-escape-punishment-for-rape-by-marrying-your-victim/