China ordered Hong Kong to deny entry to Benedict Rogers, who wanted to observe the human rights situation there.

Here's Benedict Rogers's description of what he was going to do, and what happened.

I think that Xi intends to show visible contempt for the "one country, two systems" agreement made 20 years ago with the UK. China is so strong that it need not obey any commitments.

UN investigators conclude that Burma made a systematic effort towards ethnic cleansing of Rohingya, and that it started before the date when some Rohingya launched an attack.

The US government is attacking Americans' privacy again by trying to stop products from offering effective encryption.

Advice from the EFF about how to deal with Russian election interference.

Some scientists think we can't avoid global heating disaster unless we can develop technology to pull CO₂ out of the air.

Technology exists to do it in small quantities, but the denialists will refuse to spend the money to deploy it enough to do the job. Instead, they will cite the mere possibility it will someday work as an excuse to go on burning.