Some of Australia's prisoners on Manus Island are going to the US, which has accepted them as refugees.

Sweden is rebuking China very strongly for the arbitrary arrest of Gui Minhai.

China's government seems to think it can get away with anything, much like the US government — much like the bully.

The US might abandon the Syrian Kurds to conquest by Turkey to stop Turkey from allying with Russia.

It is sad for Russia and Turkey that Putin and Erdoğan are made for each other.

The US and its allies have stepped up air attacks against al-Shabaab, resulting in plenty of civilian casualties. It is hard to tell how many civilian casualties there are, or how many air attacks there are.

The ally mentioned in the article is Kenya, but I would expect Ethiopia is involved also, since it was Ethiopia's intervention that destabilized Somalia and brought about the creation of al-Shabaab.

Al-Shabaab is not just an underground terrorist gang. It is also an army that controls territory. I don't think that fighting that army with air power is wrong in principle, but there are moral requirements (also supported by international law), and I wouldn't trust the US, let alone Kenya and Ethiopia, to try to follow them.

The US is morally responsible for air attacks by its allies, whether or not it specifically arranged all or any of their attacks, since it arranged for the allies to carry out air attacks in Somalia.

A lunatic proposal that might tempt fools: to let people get multiple votes in public elections by having babies.

This would be a strong incentive to increase population growth, and thus would threaten global disaster.