News of the day from across the globe, May 4
King Felipe VI of Spain signed a decree Tuesday to dissolve parliament and hold a rerun of national elections for the first time since the country’s return to democracy in the late 1970s.
The NATO alliance this week is getting a new supreme commander, a former top-ranking U.S. military officer in Korea hailed Tuesday by Defense Secretary Ash Carter as a proven warrior-diplomat and “a soldiers’ general.”
U.S. Army Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti was installed as head of the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, and will become NATO’s supreme allied commander Europe following a separate ceremony Wednesday at the alliance’s military headquarters in southern Belgium.
Scaparrotti, 60, will be the 18th U.S. officer to hold the post since Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first NATO supreme commander in 1951.
[...] on today’s battlefields, attacks on hospitals have become common, punctuating what aid workers and U.N. officials describe as a new low in the savagery of war.
On Tuesday, the U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution to remind warring parties everywhere of the rules, demanding protection for those who provide health care and accountability for violators
The main road alongside Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat temple is now off-limits to cars as authorities seek to ease traffic jams at the site that draws 2.1 million tourists a year.