India's Supreme Court ruled that privacy is a fundamental right; this may help pin back India's hard-to-escape biometric ID system, Aadhar.

The Capitol region (around Canberra) wishes to invite the refugees Australia holds on Manus Island and Nauru.

Joe Robinson from England spent four weeks acting as a medic for Kurdish troops in Syria. Now he is in prison in Turkey, accused of "being a member of a terrorist organization."

This illustrates the wrong of arbitrarily labeling a group as a "terrorist organization". That is wrong when the US does it, too.

Robinson also joined the Kurdish forces in Iraq, which Turkey appears to have military cooperation with.

Is it possible to be friends with a Tory, or a Republican?

Like the writer, I don't refuse a priori, but I'd probably find little basis for friendship with a person with those values.

Erdoğan has put an end to teaching evolution in Turkish high schools.

Christianity and Islam over and over deal with inconvenient truths by teaching ignorance.