Israel has passed a law for imprisonment without trial to replace the emergency order that had been in effect around 60 years.

Anyone suspected of planning "terrorism" (which would include also resistance against the occupation) or even generally encouraging it could be imprisoned without trial.

Putting this in a "law" is no excuse for it.

The Taliban threatened to kill school principals as blackmail.

It is naive to think that examining metadata won't reveal your most intimate secrets. For instance, people have found this allows identification of people who are gay and don't say so.

Professors of medicine have called on the doctors at Guantanamo to refuse to participate in force-feeding in the name of medical ethics.

In parts of the UK, half the honeybee hives did not survive the winter. Overall, 1/3 of them died.

The specific cause was unusual weather, which will become more common in the future due to the effects of global heating. We can reduce this with the well-known measures that businesses order states not to do.

The same weather also hit agriculture directly, with a bug failure of harvests.

We've seen similar failures in Russia and the US.