Danny Gold, The Daily Beast
Monaly Najeeb and Rand Leith hid in the same room in Kirkuk as the jihadists stormed in. Their survival was a miracle.
Marni Soupcoff, National Post
Another shot has been fired in Canada's struggle to eliminate the self-defeating barriers on trade erected by the provinces, and once again the focus is beer. Saskatoon's Great Western Brewing Co. has announced it is taking Alberta to court, alleging that the province's new beer markup scheme violates the constitutional protection of free inter-provincial trade.
Alex Pollock, RealClearMarkets
On October 14, the outgoing Governor of Puerto Rico, Alejandro Garcia Padilla, who is not running for re-election next month, addressed the Oversight Board which is charged by Congress with...
Lintner, MP
As Bangkok cosies up to Beijing, Naypidaw is drawing away -- giving the U.S. an opportunity for a new strategic partnership in the region.
Pierre Briancon, Politico
Start the French presidential election without me, the almost-candidate seems to say.
Baldwin & Marshall, Reuters
Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte ended a recent speech in Manila with a now-familiar claim: Two policemen were dying every day in his violent battle to rid the country of illegal drugs.
Don Pittis, CBC News
French-speaking Belgians know and love Canada. But the country's complex politics make Wallonia an intransigent bastion of hard-left politics in a pro-trade Europe.
Boris Grozovsky, Moscow Times
This winter will mark three years since Russia abruptly embarked on a course of political and economic isolation. Lower oil prices and the devaluation of the ruble dealt a serious blow to the population's economic well-being.
Alex Rowell, NOW Lebanon
Aoun?'s election marks a milestone in Damascus'?? waning influence in Beirut, which has now been replaced by Tehran's.
Hassan Hassan, New York Times
If the Islamic State loses Mosul, the group has a clearly articulated contingency plan, a strategy it has frequently broadcast on multiple platforms for the past five months: inhiyaz, or temporary retreat, into the desert.
Pat Cockburn, Independent
The bombing of East Aleppo has rightly caused worldwide revulsion and condemnation.But look at how differently the international media is treating a similar situation in Mosul, 300 miles east of Aleppo, where one million people and an estimated 5,000 Isis fighters are being encircled by the Iraqi army fighting alongside Kurdish Peshmerga and Shia and Sunni paramilitaries and with massive support from a US-led air campaign. In the case of Mosul, unlike Aleppo, the defenders... Читать дальше...
Ross Clark, Spectator
Assuming there was no change in what was traded across the English Channel â which obviously wouldn't be the case as consumers would start to shop around elsewhere â UK exporters would, under WTO âÂÂMost Favoured Nation' (MFN) rules, find themselves paying ã5.2 billion in tariffs on goods they exported to the rest of the EU. EU exporters, however, would end up paying ã12.9 billion worth in tariffs on goods they exported to Britain.
Hassan Mneimneh, RCWorld
In an ideal world, the ousting of a militant group that has openly committed genocide and engaged in ethnic and religious cleansing ought to be followed by an affirmation of national unity. This sadly is not the case in Iraq's war-torn Nineveh province.
Lily Kuo, Quartz
Africans are past the debate of whether their countries are hopeless, rising, or reeling.
Pat Cockburn, Independent
The bombing of East Aleppo has rightly caused worldwide revulsion and condemnation.But look at how differently the international media is treating a similar situation in Mosul, 300 miles east of Aleppo, where one million people and an estimated 5,000 Isis fighters are being encircled by the Iraqi army fighting alongside Kurdish Peshmerga and Shia and Sunni paramilitaries and with massive support from a US-led air campaign. In the case of Mosul, unlike Aleppo, the defenders... Читать дальше...
Brian Monteith, The Scotsman
All the polling confirms that the Scottish electorate does not want another referendum and in the real poll of the Holyrood elections held as recently as May a majority voted for parties that did not want a referendum. There is no mandate to hold a referendum. Period.
Alon Ben-David, Jerusalem Post
The next American president will determine if Iran becomes the dominant power in the region and if it will also become a nuclear power.
Mustafa Akyol, Al-Monitor
Although Erdogan's ideology is very different from that of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's, he wants a similar role -- that of a savior-founder who will rule Turkey single-handedly.
Christopher Fettweis, The National Interest
The United States vastly overestimates the amount of control it can exert over the troubled, deeply divided societies of the Middle East.
Griff Witte, Wash Post
The rise of the Pirates -- from radical fringe to focal point of Icelandic politics -- has astonished even the party's founder, a poet, Web programmer and former WikiLeaks activist.
Scott Gilmore, Boston Globe
Global trends toward interconnection, economic growth, social progress, and stronger civil society have not completely bypassed the Islamic world.
