A Hong Kong publisher and some employees have been sentenced to prison in China for "running an illegal business". Supposedly this is not the publishing business, but rather another unrelated business. The charges could conceivably be valid, but we have to be skeptical.

45 Palestinians, imprisoned by Israel arbitrarily, are on hunger strike. One is shackled to a hospital bed.

Climate models for the ocean have become very accurate in predicting the global heating that measurements observe.

Some French news media say they will refuse to publish the names and photos of terrorist killers, to deny them glory.

I think this would be even more effective for non-terrorist multiple murderers, those with no ideology, that we have seen many of in the US.

Wages in the UK are down 10% since 2007. The UK is among the worst of the developed countries in this.

It would be even worse if you figure it against the tremendous increase in rents — and include the decrease in benefits for poor, disabled and unemployed people,