Japan has pledged to move rapidly to renewable electric generation. Now Australia will find its coal and gas export markets disappearing.

Hooray! Australia's truth-despising planet-roaster government deserves this slap in the face. It deserves three more slaps in the face, for (1) unending imprisonment of thousands of boat people without trial, (2) prosecuting whistleblowers, and (3) threatening to imprison free software developers who don't add back doors on command.

Mexico wants Israel to extradite a former high official accused of corruption and undermining the investigation of the kidnaping and murder of 43 students. But Israel may be being uncooperative to punish Mexico for supporting Palestinians' rights.

The US has charged a Chinese official (and some hired Americans) of working to bully Chinese expats to go to China to face prosecution.

Biden imposed sanctions on some Cuban officials involved in repressing protests.

These sanctions are acceptable. The US should relax the old sanctions that cause the suffering that Cubans are protesting against, and replace them with these and other new sanctions that hardly affect anyone but the elite.

MIT's advice to vaccinated people about dealing with the Delta variant.