In Sri Lanka, the army attacked journalists who were covering environmental protests.

Where Do "Good" Software Practices Fit Into News Applications?

Amnesty International calls on Cuba to free political prisoners who have been convicted of "dangerousness".

I agree, but Cuba is not the only country to imprison people because the state thinks they might commit a crime in the future. The UK does the same thing.

The US government sabotaged Tor by means of malicious Javascript code.

Fingers point at the NSA.

Here's an explanation of the attack method. It seems that they attacked certain Tor nodes, and every user who (by chance) was routed to those nodes was attacked.

I've been told that the malicious Javascript was not introduced into Tor routing nodes, but rather into some .onion web sites hosted by the same company.

Hot, dry weather in Alaska is killing salmon and trout.

In 40 years, normal conditions in Alaska will be hot by today's standards.