Brian Whitaker, Al-Bab
According to Islamic tradition the Prophet Muhammed once said: "Pay the labourer his wages before his sweat dries". But in the devout Gulf states that is one religious instruction employers are often content to ignore. Stories abound of workers being unpaid for months -- and sometimes never getting what they are owed.
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
Before he leaves office, will he try to level the playing field between Israel and the Palestinians?
Martin Caparros, New York Times
The Colombians who didn'??t vote on the deal to end five decades of war are the ones who decided the future.
Brian Whitaker, Al-Bab
According to Islamic tradition the Prophet Muhammed once said: "Pay the labourer his wages before his sweat dries". But in the devout Gulf states that is one religious instruction employers are often content to ignore. Stories abound of workers being unpaid for months -- and sometimes never getting what they are owed.
Jeff Kingston, Japan Times
Should Asian leaders be worried about Trump? Hell yes. The world managed to survive the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush, but the alarming prospect.
Matthew Continetti, National Review
We are flying blind. And the problem is much larger than the Middle East. A rudderless America, in a moment of transition, is heedlessly reacting to events rather than influencing them. What Halford Mackinder dubbed the world-island of Eurasia is ringed by wars both hot and cold â from the Baltics to the Donbas, across the Shiite crescent, along the Indo-Pakistani border, through the South and East China Seas.
Claire Sergent & Katy Lee, Foreign Policy
In Britain and the United States, it's older working-class voters who are alienated and looking to blow up the system. In France, it's young people.
Conrad Black, National Post
Every incoming majority government gets a free pass for a year or two, but the people soured on Diefenbaker and Pierre Trudeau, and almost defeated them four years after their big majority elections.
Sandra Dibble, Los Angeles Times
School was in sessionà for 350 junior high school students in a gritty, working-class section of Tijuana on a recent afternoon when shots rang out next door. By the time it was over, the assailants had fled andà two people were dead:à the owner of a small Clamato and car wash business, and aà 17-year-old customer.
Francois Dube, The Diplomat
China's role in Africa is changing from resource extractor to long-term strategic partner. Djibouti is a prime example.
Juliet Samuel, Daily Telegraph
What an image of Britain in Europe. Collapsed on the floor after a bout of political infighting. That was before our currency crashed six per cent in two minutes overnight. When Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, after the Brexit vote, said that âÂÂEngland has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally and economicallyâÂÂ, he hadn't meant it literally.
Charles & Garvin, Miami Herald
An attempt to hijack hurricane-relief supplies is a sign of the anger in rural western Haiti, where authorities haven't even been able to count the dead yet, much less help the living.
Mustafa Akyol, Al-Monitor
Western powers must balance Russian overtures to Turkey by reaching out to Ankara on its key concerns and being cautious with their criticism.
Martin Chulov, The Guardian
Militias controlled by Tehran are poised to complete a land corridor that would give Iran huge power in the region.
George Will, Washington Post
Vladimir Putin's serial humiliations of America's bewildered secretary of state regarding Syria indicate Putin's determination to destabilize the world. Here is an even more ominous indication of events moving his way: On just one day last week, Italian ships plucked 6,055âÂÂmigrants from the Mediterranean.
Robert Fulford, National Post
Satellites in space see the signs: ancient antiquities sites are being looted, the priceless objects sold to support the war.
