The use of flammable insulation materials has created a danger of big fires in apartment buildings.

We had better make sure insulation is not flammable.

12 of Erdoğan's bodyguards face arrest for their violence in Washington, DC.

Israel's legal trap for the Palestinians of Al-Amniyr: to keep their land they need water, but Israel destroys their cisterns and water pipes.

American student Otto Warmbier visited North Korea and was imprisoned for some meaningless "crimes". Recently he was allowed to return to the US, and it was discovered that he has been in a coma for a year.

I am no neurologist, but I get the impression it is unlikely he will ever be conscious again.

Were you thinking of visiting North Korea? I am curious about it, but I won't take the foolish risk of going there. I can learn about the place from what others write, and I recommend you do the same.

This sort of treatment is not limited to North Korea. US prisons have practices that systematically deny prisoners needed medical care, such as saying it is too dangerous/inconvenient/whatever to let them see a doctor, refusing to believe they are sick, or insisting they have only minor ailments rather than cancer until it is too late.

But they don't go as far as covering up for a year that a prisoner is permanently unconscious.

US citizens: call on Senator Richard Burr to stop interrupting Senator Kamala Harris.