Queensland proposes to legalize stop-and-search with no specific suspicion.

In the US and in the UK, this is an invitation to racial profiling.

US citizens: call on Congress to keep Ilhan Omar on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Iraq's ancient marshlands, where the Tigris and Euphrates enter the Persian Gulf, are drying out and dying due to global heating with help from other causes.

Global heating threatens the production of jamón ibérico. The oak forests are producing fewer of the acorns that the pigs eat.

Eventually that forest may disappear, and its ecosystem.

*Iranian protesters sentenced to death were tortured, says Amnesty report.*

In the 1980s, Iran's new (at that time) Islamic Republic used to treat trials as a pointless inconvenience. That tendency is still present.