Once again, the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit has distorted a Supreme Court decision so as to help computational idea patents.

This is what it did in 1981, which exposed the US to the plague of computational idea patents in the first place.

Bangladesh is using the army to force Rohingya back to Burma.

The UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty is shining the spotlight on how the UK government has boosted poverty there, poverty that the government consistently refuses to admit.

I think the claim that the UK's imposition of poverty is worse than the US is mistaken. In the UK, citizens who are broke are supposedly entitled to welfare, though bureaucrats look for excuses to cut it off. In the US, many such people are left to shift for themselves.

Cuba will withdraw the 11,000 Cuban doctors that work in Brazil after Bolsonaro demanded that the doctors get a bigger fraction of what Brazil pays for their work, and demanded they get Brazilian medical licenses.

The second demand is evidently unreasonable. If Brazil wants Cuba to send doctors to Brazil as a national practice, it has to accept their Cuban medical training (which, I gather, is pretty good). This must be just an excuse to terminate the contract.

This suggests to me that the first demand is also an excuse to terminate the contract. I would be surprised if Bolsonaro cared about the income of a non-rich Cuban.

At the same time, I don't see that his statements contain insults or threats to the Cuban doctors.

Spain will eliminate "alternative medicine" in its clinics, and will work to end the practice of teaching such "treatments".

This includes homeopathy and acupuncture. Homeopathy is absurd because it postulates differences between a treatment and a placebo that theoretically can't exist, and which no one can observe in practice.

Acupuncture is not obviously theoretically absurd, but experiment finds it is no different from a placebo.

The placebo effect may be useful, but there are lots of ways to trigger that.