The World

Spanish weather forecasters are facing an alarming jump in online attacks. It’s not because they’re getting the forecast wrong, but because they increasingly link extreme weather events to climate change. Meteorologists say the hate, harassment and threats are starting to affect their work. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona.

Immigrant groups in Minnesota, including the Somali community, have been concerned for their safety since ICE agents arrived last month. The agents have detained people and sparked outrage for their heavy-handed tactics, violation of constitutional laws and the shooting deaths of two US citizens.

The Outer Hebrides are the UK’s last holdout of traditional Christian Sunday observance, prohibiting work, shopping, and leisure activities on the Sabbath. But that may soon end.

Analysts are calling it China’s biggest military purge in roughly half a century: President Xi Jinping has placed his second-in-command, China’s top general, under investigation. Shanshan Mei, who specializes in Chinese defense policy at RAND, speaks with The World’s Marco Werman about the scope of the ongoing purge and what it reveals about the stability of Xi’s regime.

A groundbreaking Australian play has come to New York for a few weeks. It’s called “The Visitors,” and it tells an important piece of Australian history from an Aboriginal perspective. A council of tribal leaders is called in when a fleet of ships appears in what is now Sydney Harbor in 1788. “The Visitors” is written by an Aboriginal playwright, and the cast and crew are also Aboriginal. Jeff Lunden reports from New York City.