Source: www.theatlantic.com - Friday, May 20, 2016 What We’re Following: A Tragic Mediterranean Search Body parts, seats, and luggage were found in the search area for EgyptAir Flight 804 in the eastern Mediterranean, Egyptian and Greek authorities said Friday. The Paris-to-Cairo flight disappeared from radar early Thursday morning with 66 people on board. Protests in Baghdad: Supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed Baghdad’s Green Zone for the second time in less than a month, forcing authorities in the Iraqi capital to declare a curfew. Al-Sadr, a former U.S. antagonist turned anti-corruption campaigner, is demanding that Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi reshuffle his cabinet with technocrats. India’s Heat Wave: The desert town of Phalodi in northwest India recorded the country’s hottest day on record on Thursday, a broiling 51 degrees Celsius, or 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit. The record-breaking number comes amid a heat wave that has killed hundreds throughout India and emptied streets as people take shelter in their homes. Snapshot Wild poppies grow in the Castilla La Mancha landscape in Spain on May 20, 2016. See more of the week’s best photos here . (Denis Doyle / Getty) Quoted “Hopefully they are vegetarians and have gotten beyond the point of eating each other .” —Philip Lubin, a physics professor, on the extraterrestrials he hopes will find Earth “We should not be using imperfect skills as reason to disqualify kids from membership in the group.” —Amanda Moreno, All Related
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