The Tory election bill is designed to wipe out Labour's union campaigning.

Vietnam sentenced a man to 5 years in prison for breaking the general quarantine rules and spreading Covid-19 as a result. One of the people he infected died from it.

Overfishing is driving 1/3 of all shark and ray species to extinction.

Venice tracks everyone in the city from camera to camera. Now it plans to force everyone in the city to identify perself to enter.

This is associated with a plan to collect a fee from non-residents, but I don't object to that. Maintaining Venice is expensive, and so is protecting it from sea level rise. I would not mind paying, if I could do so anonymously.

I will not go to Venice again if that practice goes into effect. But that doesn't mean I will be safe from it — because it might spread.

Russia targets opposition candidates with decoy candidates that have the same name. Now they even look similar.