Victoria (an Australian state) will offer sick pay to workers in insecure jobs. It is crucial to enable them to stay home if they get sick.

This is a good step, but not enough. Employers for whom a person regularly works should be required to formalize that relationship and give sick pay.

Bolsonaro wants Brazil to switch to paper voting, instead of the computerized system whose security can't be verified.

Brazil ought to use paper ballots, but I can't believe that Bolsonaro wants an honest election. I expect that he has something bad in mind.

About the guerrilla resistance to the coup in Burma.

It seems clear that the army doesn't take care to avoid killing nearby civilians when it fights a battle. It acts like an occupying army in its own country.

I wonder what the soldiers will do about that. Surely some must be very uncomfortable with the situation.

The president of Haiti was shot by gunmen that said they were DEA agents.

I don't think they were really DEA agents, because it was the US that installed Moise as president, and I think the US could have put in some other president without shooting Moise.

Haiti effectively has no government now. There is no one officially eligible to take over as president.

Here's more about the constitutional irregularities of Moise's regime.

The result will probably be chaos.

After the state has been a US puppet for so long, I think it would be difficult for anyone to exercise authority with much legitimacy,

Israel destroyed Palestinians' tents in a place near the Jordan River. For many years, Israel has tried to make it very difficult for any Palestinians to live near the river, attempting to clear them all out. Declaring their land a "closed military zone" is a frequent tactic.