Julia Belluz, Vox
It's not your imagination: There are more outbreaks of deadly pathogens today. Here's why.
Barak Ravid, Haaretz
Reassuring words of peace without deeds won't improve relations with the U.S., stop the French initiative or get Netanyahu a photo-op with an Arab leader. Why? Kerry, Mogherini and Sissi just don't believe him.
Dreux Richard, New York Times
In Hiroshima, Mr. Obama praised the U.S.-Japan alliance, saying it has taught both countries to cherish peace. He did not reflect on the 69 years of Japanese pacifism that have kept Japan out of war while the United States has waged several. By neglecting them, in a speech that touched so many old wounds, Mr. Obama has advanced the politically fraught and historically unsupportable notion that Japan has been the victim of its painful past, not the beneficiary of its difficult lessons.
Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail
European leaders don't know how to cope with the flood of illegal migrants. Shifting blame and passing the buck isn't the answer
Eli Lake, Bloomberg
Defectors from North Korea are using drones to deliver USB sticks containing music and shows from the South.
Ranj Alaaldin, The Guardian
Until Sunni Arab communities can trust the Shia-dominated government in Baghdad, there is little hope of permanently uprooting the terrorist group.
Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy
New Delhi hopes a giant new Iranian port will help meet its energy needs -- and outflank Pakistan.
Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi are discussing a Cairo regional conference, experts are presenting a security plan, based on the one elaborated by Gen. John Allen.
Michael Peck, National Interest
In the end, China abandoned ShanghaiâÂÂand lost its best divisions in a bloddy battle.Ã
Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor
In light of the stalled peace negotiations between Palestine and Israel, Palestinians are seriously considering the Palestinian-Jordanian confederation option as the only way out of their impasse.
Carl Bildt, Washington Post
As nationalism comes roaring back, leaders need to make the case for an open society.
Timothy Frye, Foreign Affairs
What we do know is that, whenever and however political change does come to Russia, it will have an outsize impact on global politicsâÂÂand on how we understand democratization.
Der Spiegel
Standing tough on Russia remains official policy, but Germany has begun working on the careful easing of sanctions imposed following Moscow's aggression in Ukraine. The US is opposed, but many in the EU could support the new approach. By SPIEGEL Staff
Andrew Coyne, National Post
Power was a devil's bargain for the Tories. They won government, but gave up not only their principles, but their freedom, and ultimately their self-respect
Nasir Jamal, Dawn
Does the great power's footprint in Pakistan mean we are in good company?
Peter Hartcher, Canberra Times
When Bill Shorten accused Malcolm Turnbull of being Tony Abbott at Sunday's debate, it was as rude as it got. We're world's apart from the US.
Andrew Higgins, New York Times
As she expected, she received some feedback from people who had clashed with aggressively pro-Russian voices online. But she was taken aback, and shaken, by a vicious retaliatory campaign of harassment and insults against her and her work by those same pro-Russian voices.Ã
Fritz Lodge, The Cipher Brief
However, this long-anticipated gesture of goodwill is more than just a platform for the nuclear issue or recognition of a past tragedy. As Japan expands its Self Defense Forces and inches ever closer to revising a 70-year old Constitutional ban on maintaining an offensive military, the President's visit may also mark a new era in America's alliance with its most important security partner in East Asia.
Dan Peleschuk, World Politics Review
The instability pushed locals to make security and economic stability top priorities in a traditionally cosmopolitan city that's long been known for its relaxed attitude and even eccentricity, according to local journalist Vera Zaporozhets.âÂÂAfter May 2, the city stopped being so carefree in the way it's always been,â she says.
Economist
Long queues at petrol stations are only the most visible sign of a battle over the future of the French left
Edward Goldberg, RealClearWorld
Who would have thought that an issue too hard to explain in a sound bite would become the main axis along which the American presidential election is fought? Donald Trump's railings against China or Mexico shrewdly put a political face on that issue: globalization. Trump was smart enough to see what other politicians astoundingly missed: how the perception of globalization negatively affects the personal lives of many Americans.
