Some areas in California literally have no water, except from bottles.

Israel is making some concessions to international pressure to investigate war crimes in Gaza, but it can't decide whether to strengthen HAMAS or weaken it.

Israel threatens to ban human rights and peace groups unless Europe stops funding them.

The UK government wants to massively broaden the War on Drugs. The excuse: someone died from (mis)using nitrous oxide.

There are many pastimes which have a risk of fatal accidents. Strangely, no one calls for prohibiting mountain climbing, skydiving, or swimming with sharks.

The prosecution of two German journalists for treason, because they published information about massive surveillance, has been "suspended" in response to public outrage.

This is not a final victory, because the prosecution could still be resumed. Nonetheless, Germany is beating the US, where the government will not even "suspend" the prosecution of our hero, Edward Snowden.