All posts tagged "Western Europe"

Millions of international travelers who are turned off by President Donald Trump's policies on everything from tariffs to immigration are choosing to spend their vacation dollars elsewhere — and it's costing the U.S. economy up to $29 billion, according to reporting in Forbes.

The report cited a study from the World Travel & Tourism Council that revealed the U.S. was the only country out of 184 studied that was expecting a decline in tourist spending in 2025.

Forbes quoted Julia Simpson, president and CEO of WTTC, saying, “While other nations are rolling out the welcome mat, the U.S. government is putting up the ‘closed’ sign."...

Thousands attended a funeral Tuesday for the 38 victims of a coach crash in Italy as the country mourned the dead in one of Europe's worst road accidents.

Ancient DNA isolated from the mass grave of a 15th century leper colony has given scientists a clue as to why the one-time scourge of humanity has all but vanished from western Europe. According to NPR's Shots Health News blog, a paper published Thursday in Science magazine explained that human beings themselves changed to overcome the once-prevalent skin disease.

Modesty squads in Israel are beginning to be prosecuted. I'll confess that the whole situation made me wonder. Israel is basically a Western nation, a liberal democracy like ours or one in Western Europe. So how on earth do vigilante religious groups think they have a right to persecute women? I guess we have the same problem here, with vigilante religious groups who gather around abortion clinics to persecute women, but the law restricts their actions significantly, making them keep their distance and forcing them to avoid physical assault. I fail to see how modesty squads don't result in immediate arrests of their members for abusing the rights of full citizens who they have theological differences with.