John McCain, North Korea, Russia: Your Tuesday Briefing
[The New York Times] • In India, an electoral college of parliamentarians and state assembly members are electing a new president.
_____ • In China, the cat-and-mouse game between the government
and internet users reached a new level as a vast army of censors tried to scrub away the outpouring of grief on social media for the Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo last week.
[The New York Times] • The Indonesian government mediated a $44,000 settlement for a woman who
worked as a maid in Saudi Arabia for 22 years without being paid — about $166 per month.
How the North responds will offer a gauge of the pro-dialogue policy of South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae-in.
With a fan base of physicists, the group’s songs tended toward the scientific: "Strong Interaction," "Surfing on the Web"
and "Microwave Love." Although it’s impossible to say for sure if their photo was, in fact, the very first to be posted online, it was an early step in the transformation of a communication system used by scientists into the internet we know today.