Frank Jack Daniel, Reuters
The click-clack of guns being cocked echoes in the cement safe house where seven kidnappers keep watch over a western Caracas slum, their 33-year-old gang leader boasting of grenade attacks on police and growing wealth and power.
Jennifer Duggan, Politico EU
Multinationals are crucial for Ireland's economy, but some politicians feel its tax terms are too generous.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, The Week
It certainly won't be easy. But there are real signs of change.
Jared Malsin, Time
Turkey is reorganizing its armed forces at a moment of deep distrust among key political, judicial, and military leaders. The coup attempt and subsequent crackdown devastated the military's morale and threw its ranks into disarray. In the aftermath, the government cut power to at least one baseâÂÂIncirlik, which is used by U.S. force. Trucks blocked the entrances to others. In the wake of the bloody coup attempt, no one has voiced opposition to the planned reforms, but some... Читать дальше...
Michael Kofman, Foreign Policy
Moscow isn't looking to escalate the war in the Donbass. But it is laying the groundwork to dominate its neighbor for years to come.
Jochen Bittner, New York Times
If you suspect that Germany has quickly moved from relief to self-righteousness, you're not wrong. If âÂÂDeutsch Powerâ should mean a hard form of soft power â opening its doors to refugees, deploying humanitarian missions â then Germany has yet to work through exactly what this entails.
Raffaello Pantucci, Daily Telegraph
A suicide attack on China's embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan will have little registered on most British radars. Yet, it marks a significant moment for China, as one of the first times that China has come so directly into the crosshairs of terrorists outside its borders. Details may be scant at the moment, but it appears to mark the first time a Chinese diplomatic compound has been hit in such a way. It is also the latest marker in a gradual escalation of a terrorist... Читать дальше...
Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor
A rumored Israeli-Palestinian summit in Moscow may be a maneuver by Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu to try to thwart a new US initiative.
Alvaro Vargas Llosa, GM
As the country's economy nosedives, the autocratic President is bent on eliminating all civil resistance and political opposition.
Artem Filatov, Intersection
A touch of frost at the border.
Richard Longworth, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Globalization is remaking and reshaping America's two big political parties. This transformation lies behind the bedlam of this year's presidential campaign.
Leslie Nguyen-Okwu, Ozy
This ex-banker is giving Wall Street the middle finger by building the Goldman Sachs for Bitcoin.
The Economist
The country's election season is heightening religious tensions.
Shawn Crispin, The Diplomat
Evidence points to a connection to the southern Thailand insurgency.
Aidan Hehir, National Interest
Liberal internationalism was after its own prestige, not Kosovars'Ã well-being.
Molly O'Toole, Foreign Policy
The last-minute meeting between the Republican presidential wannabe and the sitting Mexican president is a hard-to-fathom, high-stakes gamble almost guaranteed to cost both unpopular politicians.
Kyle Cheney & Louis Nelson, Politico
The Republican nominee gets his presidential moment south of the border.
Harry Readhead, Metro
âÂÂWe cannot be tied into an anti-business, anti-growth pact while the Brits are allowed to move on â we have a lot more to lose than anybody else.'
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
A simple guide to a complicated crisis.
Claire Messud, New York Review of Books
What Yasmine El Rashidi attempts in her deceptively quiet, adamantine novel Chronicle of a Last Summer is no less than to suffuse the present with the past, to convey the way in which a walk through Cairo and the purchase of vegetables are acts filled not only with vivid present detail but also with echoes of historical and political significance.
T. Lifvendahl, Spec.
We've taken in far too many people and we're letting them down badly â especially the children.Ã