South Korea and North Korea are rapidly improving their relationship.

This is a very good thing. It will reduce the danger of renewed war (which could now be a nuclear war), and it might eventually lead North Korea to become less of a dictatorship. It could conceivably even lead to reunification of a democratic Korea.

The tourists jailed in Cambodia for dancing "pornographically" were dancing at a party in a house, nowhere near temples.

Even remote areas of the ocean have a substantial presence of plastic microparticles.

Legalized medical marijuana reduces deaths from opioid overdose. The easier the access to marijuana, the bigger the effect.

Several prisoners have died recently in Iran, supposedly from suicide, but their families don't believe it was suicide.

Suicide can be the best choice for a sane prisoner under certain circumstances, but we cannot assume that Iranian thugs are telling the truth about how those prisoners died, any more than we can trust what US thugs say about how prisoners die.