Palestinian thugs beat Palestinian opposition candidate Nizar Banat so badly that he died from his injuries.

Some states require unemployed people to use unreliable face recognition to prove their eligibility for unemployment support. Failures can cause delays of weeks.

This is a use of face recognition for which a perfectly reliable system would do no harm, provided it doesn't impose nonfree software on people. Applicants for unemployment support are required to identify themselves, after all. What worries me most about biometrics is the danger of using them to identify people when they are entitled to anonymity.

A web of influence linked a rich backer of the corrupter with Crown Prince Bone Saw and his murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

I doubt that the training included use of bone saws or forced application of powerful sedatives, but it may have included readiness to follow orders for assassination.

I see no evidence that either the corrupter or his plutocratist donor specifically supported murdering Khashoggi. But they surely helped get the US more closely involved with Bone Saw and Salafi Arabia. If that didn't directly bring about to the murder of Khashoggi, it surely helped bring about US support for Salafi Arabia's war in Yemen, which has killed thousands, or perhaps hundreds of thousands.

*Oil and gas donors gave over £400k to Tories* as the UK government decided to allow new oil wells in the North Sea.

As Israelis build a new colony on Palestinian territory, Palestinians are trying many ways to drive them out.

The colony is illegal under Israeli law, but the government is only interested in keeping it growing. Rather than removing the Israeli lawbreakers, Israel sent troops who are killing some of the Palestinian protesters.

Smoke from the fires burning outside the colony sometimes hurts the eyes of the colonists. It must feel somewhat like tear gas.