Category: 3. Europe

Europe’s latest presidential election appears to have delivered not a statesman but a slogan – “Poland first” – and with it, a rebuke to the centrist prime minister, Donald Tusk. Poland’s new head of state will be Karol Nawrocki, a…

Italy’s Mount Etna lays claim to several titles. It is:

• The world’s most active “stratovolcano”    
• Europe’s largest and most active volcano
• One of the best-monitored volcanoes in the world
• One of the world’s longest documented…

Doctors and organizations assisting with abortion face constant harassment in Poland. The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded last year that women in Poland are facing severe human rights violations due to restrictive abortion laws, with many forced to…