European Union foreign ministers overwhelmingly call for an immediate cease-fire to stop fighting between Israel and the Palestinians. https://t.co/1sKvAE0glu

At first, Colombians were protesting a tax plan. Then popular anger boiled over into weeks of demonstrations over inequality, hunger, and the police's violent reaction to the marches.  https://t.co/yZFUYW3KmE

Why are Colombians pouring into the streets? One protester's answer: “People are fed up." https://t.co/1OPtqPRIya

Eager to jump-start the lagging tourist economy and compete with Greece and Spain, Italy allows residents of its island playgrounds to get first in line for inoculations. https://t.co/6Q5bJanNAQ

“When I close my eyes, I feel someone needs my help,” said a nurse in the Indian state of Bihar, where the second wave of Covid has overwhelmed a health care system already deeply underfunded and understaffed. https://t.co/fmZzLC1p1l

As she wasted away in a Japanese detention center, Wishma Rathnayake begged to be released to a hospital. Her jailers refused. Not long after, she was dead. 

Critics blame a system with nearly unchecked power over foreigners caught inside it. https://t.co/jXR8FhfZ79

Even before the pandemic, Hong Kong's migrant domestic workers faced low pay and discrimination. Now, they say, they are being labeled as virus carriers. https://t.co/TPD765z5qr

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, already looking unusually embattled amid an economic crisis and a surge in coronavirus cases, has  been hit by a roiling corruption scandal that some say has a  fin de siècle aura about it https://t.co/QCcLC2TbXB

At least 6,000 people crossed from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta this week, in the largest movement of migrants reported there in recent years. Spain said on Tuesday it had already expelled nearly half of them. https://t.co/cQSkNMm0Ti

Millions of Palestinians came together in a general strike to protest their shared treatment by Israel, in what many described as a rare show of political unity https://t.co/fYkLX7cGlG

More than 1,000 doctors in India have died of Covid since the pandemic began last year, a quarter of them since the ongoing second wave intensified in April. https://t.co/l3m0TW9Yzb

The sole laboratory in Gaza that processes coronavirus test results has become temporarily inoperable after an Israeli airstrike nearby, officials in the territory said. https://t.co/vqkaZve3PY

Darwin’s Arch, a photo-friendly rock formation in the remote Galápagos Islands, collapsed on Monday because of natural erosion, Ecuadorean officials said. https://t.co/XmLy1UW3k6

Capri and other island tourist spots in Italy have vaccinated residents faster than in the rest of Italy. Now, in Capri, which as recently as 2019 campaigned against overcrowding, the prevailing concern is that no one will come. https://t.co/MJo3iyIqfj

Chinese regulators say they want to clean up the country’s financial system, but a state-owned finance giant may get in the way. https://t.co/Db1h390OHZ

As the fighting in Israel and Gaza enters its second week, here is what you need to know about the conflict. https://t.co/LzIFPyXt4p

Payal Raj is one of thousands of immigrants stuck in India, in part because the Biden administration’s restrictions on most travel from the country mean that temporary visa holders are barred from re-entering the U.S. https://t.co/6JJZfSj6PX

RT @vwang3: I wrote about a topic I've wanted to tackle since moving to Hong Kong last year: this city's discrimination toward its migrant domestic workers, and how it's been exacerbated by Covid. 1/

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The case of a migrant from Sri Lanka who died in a Japanese detention center has become a source of outrage for critics of Japan’s immigration system, who say that she was the victim of an opaque bureaucracy that has nearly unchecked power. https://t.co/3Qs252SlXS

RT @_StephenCastle: Could Nottingham go back to the future? Restoring the old street map is one idea being mulled as the English city  decides how to fill a space left by the retreat of retail. https://t.co/6CUvYp6ELX