Afghanistan has accused Pakistan for years of sheltering the Afghan Taliban. Now that Pakistan is attacking the Pakistani Taliban, it accuses Afghanistan of allowing them bases there.

Hundreds of thousands of citizens of Hong Kong marched for democracy despite rain and heat.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of the French law that bans wearing masks.

This law is typically thought of in connection with a tiny minority of Muslim women, but that is a side issue. Wearing a mask is the only way to protect yourself from being tracked by face recognition cameras. If such cameras are not banned, masks must be allowed as a defense.

Iraq's parliament has given up on forming a government, without even trying.

Partition of Iraq may be the way to avoid unending civil war. (I advocated this a decade ago.) However, avoiding unending war also requires that the Sunni regions be ruled by people that are not fanatics.

Increasing CO₂ levels make damselfish unable to recognize other fish that they know.