Con Coughlin, The National
The collapse of a controversial trial involving two former British paratroopers accused of murdering an IRA gunman nearly 50 years ago has highlighted the extreme difficulties of bringing prosecutions relating to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Niha Dagia, FP
The decades-long relationship between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia is treading on thin ice. Riyadh is looking to diversify its oil-dependent economy by further engaging with other South Asian countries while Islamabad struggles to expand relations with its long-standing partner beyond security cooperation and cultural ties.
Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek
On April 30, the Biden administration revealed how it will handle North Korea. Americans should not be optimistic. "Our policy will not focus on achieving a grand bargain, nor will it rely on strategic patience," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said to reporters on Air Force One,...
Will Grant, BBC
Inside a New York courtroom, the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, was known simply as "Co-conspirator 4".
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Mazzucato & Kattel, Project Syndicate
Responding to the climate emergency is a challenge for everyone, but particularly for countries that are economically reliant on petroleum extraction or production.
Ryan Swift, The Week
The Conservative party's victory in the Hartlepool by-election is the latest development in a political realignment that has been bubbling under the surface for more than a decade.
Hamza Karcic, Al Jazeera
As United States President Joe Biden passed his first 100 days in office, it appeared that his administration was putting foreign policy lower on its agenda of priorities to focus on domestic issues.
JP Carroll, RealClearWorld
The SECURE Act was recently reintroduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). The act is a sensible way of giving clarity and peace of mind to TPS recipients whose lives in the United States are in limbo, with comprehensive immigration reform yet to be achieved. Senate Republicans should join them as co-sponsors to this bill. Among the many whose lives would benefit from this legislation are over 300,000 Venezuelans who qualify for TPS. Читать дальше...
Andrew Langford, Mail and Guardian
Over the past half-century, the financial outlook of African airlines has often been more turbulent than the flights themselves. Many carriers formed in the post-independence era had entered receivership by the early 2000s, including Uganda Airlines, Air Tanzania and the West African Air Afrique.
Bianca Hillier, The World
An organization called Ulum Dalska, based in a small Swedish town called Älvdalen, is on a mission. For decades, members have been working hard to help save a language called Elfdalian, a remnant of Old Norse. "We had our first meeting on the 1st of June in 1984," said press secretary Björn Rehnström. "And the biggest hall in Älvdalen was filled with people."
Jacob Silverman, The New Republic
Israeli security forces spent the weekend beating and arresting Palestinian worshipers at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam. Coming late in the holy month of Ramadan, these attacks—featuring batons, tear gas, stun grenades, and other weapons, and which followed the
Atul Dev, The New York Review of Books
At a cost of $2 billion to the national purse, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is building a monument to himself in Delhi. This revamp of the Central Vista, an architecturally imposing two-mile stretch of British imagination at the heart of the Indian capital, is supposed to symbolize a new, self-sufficient India, finally out from the long shadow of its colonial past.