US citizens: call on Clarence Thomas to resign.

*Brazil sees record Amazon deforestation in first half of 2022.*

The UK plans to try again to send refugees to Rwanda, and do so before the start of a planned court hearing about whether it is lawful to do this.

That would go beyond disregarding asylum seekers' human rights: it would show contempt for the idea that they (or any people) have rights.

*Spain and Portugal suffering driest climate for 1,200 years, research shows.* Scientists now know what causes this; it is directly connected with global heating. As this gets worse, it will be a disaster for olive and grape production.

*More than 180 British Council contractors left trapped in Afghanistan have been given immediate permission by the UK government to apply online to come to Britain, but no hint of how to get out of the country safely.*

It appears that UK bureaucrats followed their standard practice, with all would-be immigrants, of looking for excuses to refuse to let them in. It must have become a habit for them.