Two British women who went to Zanzibar to teach English as volunteers were attacked with acid, apparently by a stranger.

Since it seems the attacker did not know them personally and did not rob them, only an ideological motive remains. I suspect it was motivated by hostility to foreigners, or to women not dressed as strict Muslims.

Several prominent Egyptian secular freedom activists have been arrested.

US law requires cutting off aid to the Egyptian military, as was pointed out in August. Will Obama continue to deny that there has been a military coup?

Canadian opposition politicians are outraged that Canada's spy agency, legally barred from spying in Canada, did such spying by outsourcing it to the NSA.

The EU should not allow personal data to be sent to US companies unless they follow a data protection regime as in the EU.

In Afghanistan, the killers of journalists enjoy impunity.