Australia has suspended use of an internet-based system for blind people to vote with.

It is supposed to enable them to vote securely and anonymously. That is a worthy goal, but I strongly doubt that it can really achieve that. I'd rather trust a friend than trust network communication with my vote.

Investigators have identified billions of dollars of foreign assets belonging to people that Alexei Navalny identified as the main supporters of Putin.

Much of the Great Barrier Reef is sick from heat and hunger.

A UK asbestos company started in 1958 to downplay the known danger of asbestos, while lobbying to allow continued use of it. It continued this through the 70s, also concealing some of its research.

Although the company was sold in 2017, some of the people who managed it in 1980 may still be alive. And some of those who managed it in 2000 and 2010 may be culpable for concealing the danger.

The possibility of being sued many years later is clearly not enough to deter companies from doing it in field after field. I think it should be a felony to aid such a plot.

China has converted some disputed islands in the South China Sea into strong military bases.

Merely flying or sailing close to these islands every few months will have no effect on the military situation that China is altering. The US needs to pay to build similar bases for Taiwan, or perhaps the Philippines, if President Do-dirty is replaced with someone that is not murderous and could be an ally.