A meeting of the G7 ministers in Biarritz has been the occasion to impose total repression on that town.

Simon Cheng, employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong, has been released by China after being jailed with no announcement.

It is absurd to jail someone for hiring prostitutes, but when China wants to use someone as a pawn, it will make up any sort of excuse.

Assad stated he intends to conquer all of Syria.

That includes Idlib, now ruled by Islamists but inhabited by millions of Syrian civilians that would not be safe in Assad's hands. It also includes Rojava.

If Rojava has no ally to rely on, it cannot resist forever.

The Israel Project, which did dirty tricks against US organizations that opposed Israel's treatment of Palestinians, has shut down.

The proximate cause is that it ran out of money, but I wonder whether its supporters have moved to a new organization which has not yet acquired a bad reputation.

A Texas thug whose lies led to a "drug raid" that killed two innocent people in their home now faces murder changes.