Biden urged OPEC to increase its oil output to relieve a temporary shortfall of oil, and acknowledged the irony of this.

He's right, in a narrow sense. However, I think the economic harm of capping fossil fuel extraction at the current level would be far less than the harm done by allowing extraction to increase as the market would happen.

An intermediate option would be better if it reduces extraction effectively and soon. Perhaps Biden should have demanded such a deal before asking OPEC to increase extraction.

Every year, Britons march in memory of everyone that died as a prisoner of the British state.

I don't use the word "custody" to describe this.

*New Zealand plan to halve greenhouse gases criticised as an "accounting trick". *

It also depends on supposed "carbon offsets" that are not reliable.

Sanders is still fighting to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices ,

as the national medical services of more civilized countries do. He faces opposition from plutocratist Democrats as well as from (plutocratist and then some) Republicans.

The jury in Majid Khan's pseudo-trial condemned the torture he experienced and called for him to receive clemency.

Allowing Majid Khan to testify about how the US tortured him served the cause of justice, but prosecuting him based on a confession that was tortured out of him is a dangerous precedent. Under the usual rules of the US legal system, his confession should have been considered inadmissable, the case against him should have been dropped, and he should have been released.