The UN has condemned Bahrain for imprisoning the family of exile Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei to punish him for protesting in Britain.

In Xinjiang, reporters get to experience some of the repression that China visits on Uighur citizens.

Australian thugs arrested a man for a sign insulting former prime minister Tony Abbott.

Tony Abbott, planet roaster and plutocratist, deserves more than insult — he deserves to be loathed. But I wouldn't use the word "cunt" to insult him, or anyone, or anything. Indeed, since any use of the word conveys insult, it has no use that I will accept, so I have never used the word. I reject associating part of a woman's body with insult — count me out.

The US Senate rejected the bill that would have tried to allow states to punish companies that support the Palestinians' boycott of Israel.

I don't support that boycott myself, but the right to do so should be respected.

You can watch the number of homeless people increase in British cities. Nowadays many of them are derelicts, but people who work for Amazon and Uber and do not get paid enough to have a place to live.