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Israeli teenager charged with killing Palestinian

dimanche 3 février 2019 à 01:00

An Israeli teenager has been charged with killing a Palestinian by throwing a rock at the car she was in.

Microrobots for oil pipeline inspection

samedi 2 février 2019 à 01:00

Microrobots to inspect oil pipelines could be very useful, but experience shows that oil companies would rather cut corners than spend money to inspect.

Forcible exile of citizen

samedi 2 février 2019 à 01:00

Australia has canceled the citizenship of Neil Prakash, on the pretext that supposedly he should be entitled to citizenship in Fiji.

The article does not say whether Prakash has ever been in Fiji. I get the impression that he has only a theoretical relationship with that country. Is there any reason to believe that Fiji will recognize him as a citizen? Since he appears to be a violent Islamist, it might not. Then he would be stateless.

Even if that doesn't happen this time, it will happen to someone else.

If Prakash is guilty of the crimes that are alleged, they are grounds for putting him in prison. But countries should never forcibly exile their citizens.

US sanctions

samedi 2 février 2019 à 01:00

The bully's statement of political motives for charging Huawei executive Mang Wanzhou provide legal arguments for Canada to refuse to extradite her to the US.

I distrust Huawei products; I suspect them of spying for China. (US companies are known to spy for the US; under the PAT RIOT Act, they are compelled to.)

However, the case against Ms Mang has nothing to do with privacy or spying. It is about allegedly violating US sanctions on trade with Iran, sanctions which the bully applied in order to destroy the nonnuclear deal with Iran. It is arrogant for the US to try to make foreign countries follow US sanctions.

Hindu fanatics

samedi 2 février 2019 à 01:00

The Indian women who visited a temple, from which women of a fertile age were banned, have been forced to hide from violence by Hindu fanatics, and by their own relatives.