*Greenpeace accuses Russia of ‘unprecedented escalation’ if it restarts Zaporizhzhia reactors.* Without a secure source of power to prevent a meltdown if the reactors were to shut down, restarting them would be very dangerous.

Putin has a pattern of making wild nuclear threats. Maybe this is another of them.

Modi is campaigning for votes from the Hindu minority in Kashmir after gerrymandering that state.

This follows a total state of repression.

India ought to let Kashmir have the referendum about whether to be part of India that it promised Kashmir in the 1940s.

Female genital mutilation is increasing in total. In some regions it has gone underground to avoid censure from the general public in those regions

Following current trends, the human population would start to decrease in the 2080s. With all the real problems that could cause human extinction, the lack of interest in procreation is hardly worth mentioning.

Current trends cannot continue until the 2080s. If we don't curb global heating soon, and various problems of pollution, the population by then will be much smaller than now.

We can't maintain the current population and give a good standard of living to everyone, barring a spectrum of miraculous scientific advances which one cannot count on. We need it to decrease, and it will.

There are three ways for the human population to decrease: the humane way (birth control and abortion), the depression-filled way (mass celibacy), and the gruesome way. We are heading for the gruesome way.

*We all are the living manifestation of 13.7bn years of flukes.*