Josephine McKenna, The Telegraph
The worst earthquake to hit Italy in three decades has added troubling cracks to theà Colosseum,à threatening the country's most popular historic landmark.
Sue-Lin Wong, Reuters
"I believe a wise political leader should take policy stances that conform with global trends," China's veteran climate chief said. Trump has threatened to reject the Paris Agreement, a global accord negotiated by nearly 200 governments to battle climate change that takes effect on Friday.
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
The rise of such personalised autocracy will lead to international instability.
Michael Schuman, Bloomberg View
The country needs bold new entrepreneurs, not more easy money.
Alex Rowell, The Daily Beast
Lebanon's new president has been a putschist, a neocon fellow traveler, and now an ally of Hezbollah.
Jonathan Jones, The Guardian
The Basilica of St Benedict in Norcia has been destroyed by Italy's latest earthquake -- and it is deeply sad to see such rich history trashed by nature.
Nikos Konstandaras, NY Times
Today, people are more likely to run away from real estate than be tempted to kill for it.
Miller & Sokolsky, Politico
America has made too many promises there and must pare down its involvement to a minimum, say two long-time State Department Officials.
Echo Huang Yinyin, Qz
Chinese factories are churning out hackable hardware, and no one is doing a thing to stop them.
Dmitri Trenin, China Daily
Going forward, Xi, Putin and the next US President will be largely responsible for the state of the world. China's and Russia's leaders will not only work closely with each other, but also learn from each other, in economics as well as in politics.
Bruce Riedel, Al-Monitor
An open-ended cease-fire is needed for Yemen, but a de facto partition of the country is more likely.
Evan McMullin, Foreign Policy
I'm the only presidential candidate with a plan to bring an end to the worst crisis in the Middle East.
Jeffrey Sachs, Boston Globe
The United States is getting the choice between war and peace profoundly wrong, squandering vast sums of money and undermining national security.Ã
David Schenker, Washington Institute
Although filling the long-vacant office could help pull the country out of its political stagnation, Hezbollah and Iran will continue undermining Lebanese state institutions unless the situation next door in Syria changes significantly.
Faisal Al Yafai, National
The reckless plan to topple Gamal Abdel Nasser could have been a turning point in America's relationship with the Middle East â but neither Europe nor Nasser would allow it.
Jacob Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
October has been a busy month for Chinese foreign policy.
Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs
Donald Trump's candidacy is part of a broad populist upsurge throughout the Western world. Economic stasis and rapid cultural change have provoked a backlash across Europe and North America, and enlightened leadership will be needed to respond to legitimate grievances without pandering to the public's worst instincts.
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Mandatory declarations of assets by bureaucrats and legislators have shaken one of Europe's poorest countries.
Sylvia Rowley, New York Times
How does a government persuade millions of people to nearly halve their water use? When the drought was declared, the state government of Victoria ordered Melbourne's water companies to work together with it to quickly begin to formulate a joint response. The three water utilities and the water wholesaler are state-owned, and their cooperation was crucial to developing a response of this scale, Feldman said.Ã
Guerrera, McTague & Sciorilli Borrelli, Pol EU
The BoE chief won his feud with Theresa May's government, but his institution could end up diminished after he goes.
Douglas Ollivant, War on the Rocks
Mosul was not the first city to fall to the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), but it was its capture that shocked the world into
