puerto rico has a new governor lawyer petra pier luigi was sworn in after a week long protest force his predecessor to step down share the wheezy said that the island senate will vote on whether to confirm his position hundreds of people chanted and rang bells outside the governor's mansion to mark the change of leadership. the king of the indigenous population in new zealand has visited a plot of land that's been occupied by protesters the area near auckland is considered sacred to mari's and protesters are angry at plans to turn it into a housing development that mari king says he visited to try to help the protesters find a solution. europe's historic heat wave has now hit greenland with its ice sheets melting at dramatic rates 11000000000 tons of ice melted on wednesday alone the biggest volume of ice lost in a single day this season scientists say the recent high temperatures have been exacerbated by manmade climate change. to moscow now where opposition protesters are again trying to hold a rally despite an official ban on the event and a sweeping police crackdown on previous marc