Turkey's Ilisu dam is about to flood Hasankeyf, one of the oldest continuously settled places on Earth - The Washington Post

Bad move.

Benjamin Netanyahu will be indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust - CNN

The inevitable meets the present.

Israel’s West Bank Settlements Do Not Violate International Law, U.S. to Say - The New York Times

Obnoxious move.

Holocaust Survivor Is Swept Up in Italy’s Storm of Vitriol - The New York Times

Discouraging to say the least.

Le roi Mohammed VI gracie Hajar Raissouni, la journaliste condamnée pour avortement illégal

Bon.

Catalan Separatist Leaders Get Lengthy Prison Terms for Sedition - The New York Times

Does not seem like the right result to me.

Egypt Curbs Online Dissent With Street Searches: ‘He Asked to See My Phone’ - WSJ

Pretty bad.

Voters in Portugal, a Beacon of Stability in Europe, Head to the Polls - The New York Times

I hope it goes well.

Emmanuel Macron déclare sa flamme à la presse régionale - Nice-Matin

Hmm.

Nice-Matin

Kids Matin! Neat. Fix your own price!

The Story Behind the Times Correspondent Who Faced Arrest in Cairo - The New York Times

Such a risky business.

Arabic Readers in Israel Have to Hope the Border Guards Are Sloppy - The New York Times

This undermines so many core principles.

‘We’re at War’: A Covert Social Media Campaign Boosts Military Rulers - The New York Times

Bad.

Mark Bittman on Twitter: "Much of Iowa's landscape has been reshaped to make large-scale mechanical farming productive. 50% of the corn is used to produce ethanol. Crops look like food, but no one's eating it. Inside a system that traps farmers + screws up the planet: https://t.co/PLQ9yNGWAi @heatedmag" / Twitter

He was on MSNBC Morning Joe today talking about a variation on this........ fascinating stuff.

Italy’s Politics Go to the Beach - The New York Times

Lots of evolution.

The US should live up Lazarus poem, not change it | Durham Herald Sun

So well put.

“As a nation, we began by declaring ‘all men are created equal.’ We now read it ‘all men are created equal, except Negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all are equal, except Negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”

Why Markets Are Not Panicking About Italy (Yet) - The New York Times

Interesting story.

Sardinia sand stealing: French couple could get six years in prison

How about a belly full of Sardinian food? Illegal to leave until that is digested and returned to Sardinian sewers?

Scorched Portugal Turns to the Goat as a Low-Cost Firefighter - The New York Times

So much more of this to come.

Spain’s Most Celebrated Writer Believes the Fascist Past Is Still Present - The New York Times

So much suffering because of really bad history.