An Iranian official says that thugs are putting arrested student protesters into mental hospitals.

The main Palestinian parties, Hamas and Fatah, have agreed on a plan for national elections.

This year over 150,000 refugees have crossed the Darién Gap, the wild area that straddles the border between Panama and Colombia. You have to be totally desperate to undertake a trek so difficult and dangerous. Most of them are people from countries where things are very desperate — last year Haiti, now Venezuela. Nearly all heading towards the US border, more than 3400 miles away.

"Utility redlining": systematic underinvestment in the infrastructure of neighborhoods with a large nonwhite population. The result, in the case of electricity in Detroit, is that they get frequent power outages which the same company prevents (with newer equipment) for the wealthier neighborhoods (where more whites live).

Do all electricity customers pay the same rates? If so, some other factor convinced the electric company to serve the white neighborhoods better. It would be interesting to find out how that operated.

*21 out of 70 low- and lower-middle-income countries spent more on external debt repayment than on education in 2020.*

The 70 countries considered are those for which data was available.