Western mining companies gladly accept slaved labor from the Eritrean government.

In Ireland, a brain-dead pregnant woman's body is being kept on an incubator so as to make the fetus turn into a baby born motherless.

A dead body on an incubator is not a human being, and has no rights. A fetus of 17 weeks is not a human being, and directly has no rights, but causing it to develop into a human being in disadvantaged circumstances would be harm or cruelty to that human being. That's what Ireland is trying to do here.

The UK government is doing a subtle but effective job of undermining the development of ocean-wave-powered electric generation.

It offered huge guarantees for new nuclear plants, so that uncertainty would not hold back investment, and could do the same for wave power, but renewable is not its priority.

Meanwhile, it gives big subsidies to fossil fuels.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The accusations against him cannot be credited, coming from Putin.

South Korea banned a leftist party that supports North Korea.

If the party was a vehicle for plotting rebellion, this decision was legitimate. But were the trials of the imprisoned legislators fair?