Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hands out gifts in desperate bid to win re-election
The Turkish president is behind in polls for Sunday’s vote and has resorted to promises of free natural gas, and claims that the country has struck oil
As Turkey prepares to go to the polls on Sunday in a pivotal election, president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is distributing gifts. In the weeks before the vote, he declared that Turkish citizens would enjoy free natural gas, raised the salaries of public sector workers by 45% after an initial rise earlier this year, and even declared that Turkey had struck oil.
A new gargantuan grey warship docked in Istanbul over a recent holiday weekend, inviting citizens to walk on deck and enjoy the splendour of Turkey’s new high-tech future.
India: Modi's Hindu nationalists lose elections in Karnataka
India's main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, has won a key state election in Karnataka, defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday.
The Congress party has won 126 seats of the state assembly's 224 seats so far, according to the Election Commission website.
The party is slated to win 10 more seats, putting it on track to form a government in India's eighth most populous state. A party needs at least 113 seats to form the government in the state.
‘The country is becoming a desert’: Drought-struck Spain is running out of water
Spain is running out of water. After a long and painful drought, the country has been hit by an unusually early heat wave, evaporating even more of the "blue gold" it still has left in its reservoirs. While farmers fear for their survival, environmentalists say it is time for “Europe’s back garden” to rethink how it uses and manages its increasingly scarce water supply.
There’s an expression in Spain: “En Abril, aguas mil” – April will bring the rains. Only this year, it didn't. The month of April was the driest month on record, and several Spanish cities registered their highest April temperatures yet. In Cordoba, the mercury rose to 38.7°C (almost 102°F) at one point, and in the province of Seville in Andalusia to 37.8°C.
Coming on the heels of a long-term drought and an unusually warm and dry winter, the latest heat wave has sparked a real fear of shortages.
Her mother was a victim of femicide. Now her aunt is raising her
Photographs by Greta Rico
Story by Kyle Almond, CNN
Published May 12, 2023
Six years ago, Greta Rico’s cousin Fernanda was found dead in a garbage bag on a street in Mexico.
She had been shot three times, and there were signs of sexual violence.
As her family waited for more answers — answers they ultimately never got — there was an especially pressing issue: Who would take care of Fernanda’s 3-year-old daughter, Nicole?
Nicole’s father was absent. Her maternal grandmother had died five years earlier.
In stepped her aunt Siomara, a single woman who, at 27 years old, never expected to be a mother.
Ukraine's Zelensky meets Pope Francis in Rome
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is visiting Rome, where he is meeting political leaders and having an audience with Pope Francis.
"An important visit for approaching victory of Ukraine!" he tweeted as he landed in the Italian capital.
He met Italian PM Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella and is now at Vatican talks with the pope.
A huge security operation greeted the visit, with more than 1,000 police deployed and a no-fly zone over Rome.
President Zelensky held a private meeting with his counterpart President Mattarella, then met Ms Meloni for a working lunch.
Italy historically has strong ties with Moscow.
A Disaster the Size of Multiple Katrinas Is Building Off Washington’s Coast
The Coast Guard is the first line of defense against a massive tsunami. Will it also be an early victim?
By ERIC SCIGLIANO
On the north shore of Washington’s wild Olympic Peninsula, a scimitar-shaped sandspit called Ediz Hook arcs for three miles into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. At its tip, between snowy mountains to the south and Vancouver Island to the north, sits what may be the nation’s most scenically sited military installation — and its most vulnerable.
U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles is the very first of first responders when something goes wrong, as it often does, on the state’s tangled straits and inlets and stormy outer coast and, sometimes, on the peaks and bluffs overlooking them. The station’s three MH-65 Dolphin helicopters are the only aircraft the Coast Guard, America’s frontline coastal defense and search-and-rescue service, bases along Washington’s deeply crenulated 3,026-mile coastline. In 2021, they undertook 195 search-and-rescue missions. Ediz Hook is also home base for four seagoing cutters, 87 to 110 feet long, and one 210-foot medium-endurance cutter, which are often away patrolling for drug smuggling, human trafficking, illegal fishing, oil spills and other security and environmental threats. Two 29-foot and two 45-foot short-range response boats deal with local emergencies; they joined the choppers on 16 rescue missions in 2021 and responded on their own in 23 others.
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