Almost 2000 people in Turkey have faced legal threats for "insulting" President Erdoğan.

Bruce Schneier endorses the idea of regulating what data businesses can collect.

Based on data for 900 years, Syria's current drought is probably the worst in that whole period.

That's surely because of global heating.

The UN security council approved new sanctions on North Korea calling for inspection of all its shipping.

This has China's support, so maybe it can actually be enforced. Maybe.

The Turkish army has turned much of Cizre into rubble.

Erdoğan started this war hoping to get a better result from new elections. It partly worked.