Chechen militia batallions, composed of volunteers, fight for Ukraine, hoping to bring about indirectly the removal of Putin's control over Chechnya.

Republican-dominated states are threatening to sue pharmacy chains claiming that mailing abortion drugs to people in those states would be a crime under those states' laws. This is an attempt to intimidate them into never trying to do so.

The US government claims that those threats are invalid, and eventually a court will decide. But the Republicans can hope by this threat to cause lasting life difficulties for tens of thousands of women, even if they later lose the lawsuit.

The US "remain in Mexico" policy has brought migrants to a mass grave in Tapachula, at the southern end of Mexico, one of the cities where Mexico forces them to go and stay.

The cemetery workers don't know how many bodies are buried there without identification.

Scientists were reluctant to try albicidin as a medical antibiotic because they could not predict what bad side effects it might have.

That problem somehow did not prevent the discovery, testing and adoption of penicillin. Given the urgent need for new antibiotics, perhaps medicine has become hypercautious.

If they test albicidin with due care but not hypercaution, they can find out whether it safe for humans, then use it for treatment if it is safe. They might find a great new antibiotic quickly, or they might find it is unusable. This is worth a try, isn't it?

I suspect something nastier underlies the hypercaution: perhaps pharma companies are not interested in using albicidin because they cannot patent it. If they develop "better" versions, they will patent those and make a lot more money, at a byproduct making them too expensive in most of the world. I suppose they don't want those expensive products to have to compete with generic albicidin.

Tories promised a few years ago to mostly eliminate the use of neonicotinoids, but each year they declare an exception.

It's typical Tory, to adopt a plan to fix a major problem and then not really do it.