Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is hunger striking in prison on Iran. Her husband is hunger striking in support of her outside the Iranian embassy in London.

The EU is starting to resist authoritarian national governments that try to set up one-party states.

I hope this is not too late.

In a victory for planet-roasting, protesters in the UK were convicted of violating an anti-protest injunction set up to protect a fracking company.

The protesters were attempting to save the lives of the people that fracking would kill a few decades from now. The judge will pressure them to say they were sorry for this. They should refuse to apologize for protecting the ecosphere. The only thing they should be sorry about is that they did not succeed.

Right-wing German extremists assembled a list of politicians and activists to kill, based on data obtained from thugs and the military.

Author Ma Jian: "I felt the fear of abduction by China in Hong Kong. Appeasing Bejing has to stop."