Indonesian troops have arrested a hundred people in West Papua and burned down a dozen houses, as a random reprisal for the killing of some soldiers.

Indonesia forcibly seized West Papua in 1969 with a fishy "election", and since then has colonized the region with Javanese.

Rushing to climb ice on Kilimanjaro — next week it may be gone forever.

Authoritarian EU politicians have seized on the Charlie Hebdo attentat as a spurious excuse for tracking travel within the Schengen zone.

In the Arab world, you can satirize PISSI, but it is hard to satirize much in repressive Egypt, and Turkey is getting dangerous too.

The UK's prime minister wants to ban encryption and establish a total digital police state.