The viciousness of the civil war in Myanmar is strong enough to take the breath away — if only the world would pay attention.

Increasingly cut off from the world, Iran’s protesters face a difficult winter. Around them, nooses are tightening.

The clerical regime in Iran is continuing to wash its hands in blood.

The news has been particularly fraught and relentless recently; so much is happening. A major war in Europe continues, financial issues such as inflation and energy price rises sweep the world in developed and developing nations alike, and there is a World Cup to watch and dissect.

The world’s media appears to believe that the Iranian judiciary is poised to abolish the country’s Guidance Patrol, the so-called morality police that beat Mahsa Amini to death in September. This claim was reported in The Times of London and on the front page of The Wall Street Journal.

This week brought a big announcement in Myanmar. State-controlled media, friendly to the junta that seized power there in a coup last year, let it be known that there will soon be a mass release of political detainees.

The head of MI5, Britain’s domestic security service, this week confirmed something many of us had long suspected.