The proposed coal export terminal for Washington State has been denied an environmental permit, which could kill the project.

The company will surely hire a lot of lawyers to overturn this decision.

Salafi Arabia will allow women to drive.

It is a small but noteworthy step on a long path to equal rights for women.

The independence activists of West Papua presented the UN with an underground petition signed by 70% of the population of West Papua.

I can't tell from the article whether "West Papua" refers to the entire Indonesian-controlled half of New Guinea (that's how independence activists use the name) or only to one of its two provinces (as the Indonesian state uses the name). For clarity let's call it Western New Guinea.

Indonesia conquered Western New Guinea shortly after the Dutch let go of it. This was a bare-faced act of colonization. New Guinea has no cultural, historic or linguistic link with Indonesia.

Since then, Indonesia sent around a million Javanese colonists to settle in Western New Guinea. 70% of the population could be the fraction that are not colonists.

Mexican political parties try to use disasters such as the recent earthquake to demand political support from voters. The voters are angry at politicians in general.

Contrast this with the US, where the troll is apparently planning to leave Puerto Rico destroyed so as to win points for cruelty with his supporters.

Everyone: call on the US National Football League to support the players' anti-racist campaign.