The UN agency that feeds and houses Palestinian refugees in Gaza warns that an Israeli attack on the south could send a million people fleeing with nowhere to go.

Some US medical insurance plans are removing drugs from the list they cover, without warning. The result is that many people suddenly have to pay a lot more for prescription medicines.

Robert de Niro was giving a speech, reading from a text he had prepared, and discovered that parts of it, condemning the fascist and right-wing disinformationists, had been deleted.

He condemned Apple for demanding the deletion.

The attempt failed to trick him -- he read the deleted part from another copy of his text.

An EU court ruled that offices can limit the wearing of religious symbols by the staff, in order to maintain an air of religious neutrality. I think that is a reasonable policy.

The court decision tried to allow some flexibility but block arbitrary discrimination, but I think it did not entirely succeed at the latter.

To close the door on arbitrary bias, the court's decision should have included a requirement that any distinctions made between some religious symbols and others must give equal treatment to all symbols that are equal as regards how prominent and visible they are.

It makes sense to distinguish between large religious symbols that everyone in the office can't help noticing and tiny ones that might even be under a garment. Thus, it is legitimate to regulate religious headgear more strictly than pendants or bracelets. But the law should require that all kinds of religious headgear be treated alike, regardless of which religion they represent.

A veil is a different kind of issue. Inside an office, it is reasonable to require that the staff show their faces. However, for a government to require people on the street to expose their faces to facial recognition cameras is a step along the path that leads to Chinese-style repression.

The right to cover one's face in public should be a human right for everyone.

Gaza is not getting enough aid to meet even basic emergency needs, the UN has warned, and the population is so ravaged by hunger, bombing and the lack of clean water that deaths from disease could outstrip those from war.*