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During Europe’s heat wave last month, Floriana Peroni’s vintage clothing store had to close for a week MILAN -- During Europe's heat wave last month, Floriana Peroni’s vintage clothing store had to close for a week. A truck of rented generators blocked her door as they fed power to the central Roman neighborhood hit by a blackout as temperatures surged. The main culprit: air conditioning. The period — in which temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) — coincided with peak electricity use that came close to Italy’s all-time high, hitting a peak load of more than 59 gigawatts on July 19. That neared a July 2015 record. Intensive electricity use knocked out the network not only near the central Campo de Fiori neighborhood, where Peroni operates her shop, but elsewhere in the Italian capital. Demand in that second July week surged 30%, correlating to a heat wave that had persisted already for weeks, according to the capital’s electricity company ARETI. Like many Rom...

The head of Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog says it has launched an investigation into claims that digital platform Disney+ pulled a series on Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ISTANBUL -- Turkey’s broadcast ing watchdog has launched an investigation into claims that streaming service Disney + pulled a series on the country's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the group's chairman said. Local media reports said Armenian Americans had lobbied for the show to be canceled on the grounds that Ataturk, as an officer in the Ottoman army, was tied to the mass killing of Armenians in 1915. The Radio and Television Supreme Board decided to initiate an investigation “based on the public information” that Disney+ decided not to broadcast the series , board chairman Ebubekir Sahin said on social media late Tuesday. Ataturk, who led the Turkish independence struggle in the years following World War I and went on to become the country's first president, is a much-venerated figure in...

Labor unions are marching across Nigeria to protest the soaring cost of living under the West African nation’s new president ABUJA, Nigeria -- Labor unions marched across Nigeria on Wednesday to protest the soaring cost of living under the West African nation’s new president, with calls for the government to improve social welfare interventions to reduce hardship. The unions, made up of government workers, said the economic incentives announced this week by Nigerian President Bola Tinubu to ease hardship were not enough. They also accused him of failing to act quickly to cushion the effect of some of his policies, including the suspension of decadeslong, costly subsidies that have more than doubled the price of gas, causing a spike in prices for food and most other commodities. As the protest s swelled across the country, union leaders met with Tinubu at his office and told reporters afterwards that they would deliberate on “some commitments” made by the Nigerian leader in response to...

The Bank of England is set to raise interest rates for the 14th time in a row to a fresh 15-year high and keep the door open for further increases as it tries to tamp down persistently high inflation LONDON -- The Bank of England is set to raise interest rates Thursday for the 14th time in a row to a fresh 15-year high and keep the door open for further increases in the months to come as it tries to tamp down persistently high i NFL ation. Most economists think the U.K. central bank will increase its benchmark rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to 5.25%. There had been fears, certainly among hard-pressed households and businesses, that the bank would repeat its outsized half-point increase from June. But figures last month showing that inflation fell more than anticipated to 7.9% eased the pressure to act as aggressively again. “With i NFL ation still four times the 2% target, the Bank of England has little choice but to raise the bank rate again and leave the door open to furt...

The United States is praising Kenya's interest in leading a multinational force in Haiti NAIROBI, Kenya -- As the U.S. government was considering Kenya to lead a multinational force in Haiti, it was also openly warning Kenyan police officers against violent abuse s. Now 1,000 of those officers might head to Haiti to take on gang warfare. It’s a challenging turn for a police force long accused by rights watchdogs of killings and torture, including gunning down civilians during Kenya’s COVID-19 curfew. One local group confirmed that officers fatally shot more than 30 people in July, all of them in Kenya’s poorest neighborhoods, during opposition-called protests over the rising cost of living. “We are saddened by the loss of life and concerned by high levels of violence, including the use of live rounds” during those protests, the U.S. said in a joint statement with 11 other nations in mid-July. Now the U.S., as this month’s president of the U.N. Security Council, is preparing to pu...

Two bodies have been found stuck in the lines of orange buoys installed by U.S. authorities in the Rio Grande river along the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexican officials said. Two bodies have been found stuck in the lines of orange buoys installed by Texas authorities in the Rio Grande along the U.S.-Mexico border , Mexican officials said. The Texas Department of Public Safety notified the Mexican Consulate in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon that a person was found dead in the southern part of the floating barrier s. Members of the Mexican National Institute of Migration's assistance unit, Grupos Beta, are spearheading efforts to recover the body, according to the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "So far, the cause of death and nationality of the person is unknown," the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers ride past buoys while patrolling the Rio Grande river along the international boundary of the United States...

Authorities in Ethiopia’s Amhara region have asked the federal government for help as a local ethnic militia clashes with federal security forces NAIROBI, Kenya -- Authorities in Ethiopia’s Amhara region on Thursday asked the federal government for help, as a local ethnic militia clashed with federal security forces, halting some flights to key cities and leading the deputy prime minister, in an unusually outspoken statement, to call the situation “increasingly grave.” The disturbances are “causing serious economic, social and humanitarian damage,” the region al authorities said in a letter to Ethiopia's prime minister asking the government to take “appropriate measures.” The U.S. Embassy in a security alert late Thursday urged its citizens in the Amhara region to shelter in place and warned against traveling there. Ethiopia’s second most populous region has been gripped by instability since April, when federal authorities disarmed the Amhara region al force as part of the recov...