A mob of religious fanatics attacked a police station in Pakistan with the aim of kidnapping and lynching someone accused of blasphemy.

Why the stamp-out-every-outbreak approach is still advantageous for China.

When mainstream media warn that a country "risks being left behind", that generally is pressure to yield to the plutocrats' orders.

The WHO calls for a treaty to oblige countries to share information pertinent to future pandemics.

The information to be shared would include observed observations and technology (including how to make medicines).

Calling on big global retail companies to commit to cutting the greenhouse emissions of their shipping.

I think countries should tax the arrival of a ship based on the amount of emissions it made in the voyage, increasing the tax rate each year.

A court in Spain is investigating a company that snooped on Julian Assange while he was in the Equadorian embassy, and has asked the US for pertinent information about the company, but the US has made excuses for not answering.

The defense tried to raise the issue of this surveillance in Assange's extradition hearing, but hampered in various ways. The inability to determine what the US had to do with the snooping may have harmed his case.

The outcome of this investigation is directly relevant to whether Assange will be extradited, so it is understandable that the US tries to thwart the investigation. Understandable, but dishonest.