Israeli thugs arrested Samer Arbid and tortured him, stopped him from seeing a lawyer, then took him to a hospital in critical condition and didn't tell his family.

White House notes on the conman's phone calls could find more crimes to impeach him for.

Economic growth has lifted a large fraction of Bangladesh out of poverty. Slowly, things are getting better.

Alas, this progress cannot continue for very long, because of an overriding factor that the article fails to mention: global heating. Sea-level rise will inundate substantial parts of Bangladesh, and millions will be forced off their land. Indeed, the cloth from which to make the clothing pushes against resource limits.

Most articles about development of poor countries, indeed most articles about possible future economic growth, disregard the limits to growth. These limits used to be projections into the distant future, but we are starting to run into them, and they will press humanity tightly in the next few decades.

"President Trump is at war with the rule of law. This won't end well."

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Christianist extremists threaten Australia, pushing to allow the businesses they own to fire employees who don't obey an imposed Christianist moral code.