Torture Still Routine in Chinese Jails, says Human Rights Watch.

I wish the US were in a position to criticize this with moral authority.

Nauru, where Australia has forcibly sent refugees, is planning to make protesting a crime. The conditions of their exile give them a lot to protest about.

Cuts in support for the disabled make them more disabled — it can take away their ability to leave the house, or even to leave the bed.

Europe is considering a ground intervention in Libya to block smuggling of people from there to Europe.

It will be hard getting approval of the two competing governments of Libya, which are in civil war.

The continuing drought in Queensland (the northernmost part of Australia) is even bigger than it was a year ago.