Pakistan's suppression forces regularly kill or disappear people of the Baloch minority. They mete out cruelty to peaceful protesters.

There has long been a separatist movement among the Balochi, but extrajudicial killing and kidnapping are not a legitimate response.

Shell companies systematically evade sanctions to buy phosphates in Syria and sell them in Europe.

A group of human rights lawyers accuse Turkey of complicity in PISSI's massacre of Yazidis, and blame Syria and Iraq for failing to prevent the massacre.

They certainly did fail, but I wonder if they could in practice have done any better than they actually did.

*In pretending that Covid is over, the UK government is playing a dangerous game.*

This applies also to the US, and at least most countries in Europe.

*A toxic combination of climate emergency, conflict and Covid is pushing some of the poorest countries into an acute hunger crisis.*