A meningitis outbreak is sweeping through Ghana’s Upper West region, exposing a struggling health care system. With understaffed hospitals, dwindling resources and no approved vaccine, authorities are at their wits’ end.

Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals scored his 895th career goal this weekend. That put the 39-year-old superstar captain ahead of the former record holder, Wayne Gretzky, who congratulated him in a ceremony on the ice, along with a host of other top-echelon athletes. Ovechkin was also congratulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin. What often gets lost amid the excitement is Ovechkin’s pro-Kremlin politics.

Denmark is taking a wrecking ball to people’s homes in neighborhoods where the government feels residents don’t share “Danish values.” A 2018 law allows the demolition of homes in communities designated as “parallel societies.” The underlying idea is “integration through dispersion” but this attempt at social engineering is raising hackles, and the country’s most vulnerable people seem to be left in the dust.

A large crowd of protesters erupted in cheers when the announcement came from South Korea’s Constitutional Court. All eight of the judges on the court agreed that Yoon Suk Yeol had “violated the basic principles of a democratic state” and would be removed from office immediately. The country remains deeply divided politically. South Koreans will now vote for a new president in 60 days.

Peace talks between the US, Russia and Ukraine appear to have stalled. But far away from the negotiation table, Russian aerial attacks continue — and Ukrainians still fear for their lives, including soldiers and military chaplains, who visit front-line areas for their work.