The coming UN climate conference is pervasively corrupt. UAE oil company executives are working with the event's management team.

This is just what we would have expected the UAE emir in charge of the event to do, looking at the matter with the most jaundiced possible eye.

Azerbaijan with its oil-funded arms has taken military control of Nagorno-Karabakh. Now the question is whether it will force the Armenians out — either now or later.

Armenians have a millennium of history of Muslim conquerors seizing some of its territory and perhaps expelling them or killing them. It doesn't necessarily have to happen now. Sometimes the conquerors tolerate Christians — Islam has a tradition of tolerating Christians and Jews — but the tolerance can come and go.

When tolerated, they are second-class citizens. Furthermore, they can be punished for violating unjust religious demands, such as the law against blasphemy, Azerbaijan's dictator may not be interested in doing that, but they are not fans of human rights.

The French right-wing extremist Marine Le Pen, and 23 other members of her party, face prosecutors' request for criminal charges for redirecting some EU funds to the party staff.

CAIR, a civil rights group for the rights of Muslims in the US, has sued the US government for maintaining a "terrorist watch list" which it uses to harass Muslims.

To have a watch list to keep track of the actions of people suspected of planning terrorism is legitimate if it is used in honestly. However, the US has used this watch list to pressure Muslims with no terrorist involvement into becoming informers and snooping regularly on their friends and families.

Furthermore, the US does not just "watch" the people on the list. It regularly harasses them as well.

SCROTUS want to override all state laws that prohibit cruelty to farm animals, and some that protect the health of farm animals too.