- Today is the 50th anniversary of the US-backed coup in Chile when Salvador Allende was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet. This is a pretty good retrospective on the coup and its consequences.
- Meanwhile, even the better known atrocity that occurred on this date 22 years ago is now history rather than personal memory for a growing number of people.
- The death toll from the earthquake in Morocco is now over 2000, and time is running out to rescue trapped survivors.
- Ethiopia has completed their Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile. Egypt is not pleased.
- Still far too little being done to limit climate change, with prospects of a 2.5°C rise in average global temperature at the present rate. The potential consequences of that are ungood.
- That hurricane in the Atlantic could cause trouble for Atlantic Canada in a few days. Or not; a lot of uncertainty there.
- Apparently foreign aid workers are legitimate military targets now...
- New York City's crackdown on Airbnb seems to be having an effect, but a lot of listings are slipping through the cracks.
- The AFD candidate has made it to the runoff stage of the mayoral election in the East German city of Nordhausen.
- Road to work closed by a rockslide? You could always go on a paraglider...
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