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Australia: metadata retention

mercredi 28 novembre 2018 à 01:00

Australia might require some web sites to retain users' IP addresses, location data, etc.

Congo: new drug to eradicate sleeping sickness

mercredi 28 novembre 2018 à 01:00

A new drug is making it possible to eradicate sleeping sickness, if doctors can overcome the superstition that it is a curse placed through witchcraft.

This superstition is widespread in Africa, and people are frequently chased away from home, or killed, based on these irrational accusations.

UK: austerity inflicted misery on citizens

mercredi 28 novembre 2018 à 01:00

The UN special rapporteur on poverty says that the UK government has inflicted avoidable "great misery" by ideological preference.

He made a thorough study, and exposed the fundamental cruelty of Tory policies.

France: gasoline protests

mercredi 28 novembre 2018 à 01:00

Short-sighted French drivers protest the slowly increasing tax on gasoline and diesel fuel.

Will they be glad to pay the cost of hundreds of seawalls to protect cities from inundation? Will they be glad to compensate vineyards when their climate is no longer good for making wine?

WeChat censorship even outside China

mercredi 28 novembre 2018 à 01:00

WeChat censors news and discussion about China, even outside China.