Martin Kettle, Guardian
The tremors of this Brexit election will be felt across a continent whose powers are on the wane, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
Sam Geall, Foreign Affairs
How climate change, dams, and geopolitics threaten a river's future.
Rym Momtaz, Politico EU
Throughout his visit to China, Macron spelled out objectives for the EU and its incoming Commission.
Rashmee Roshan Lall, The National
Data analysis has traditionally been thought to be best suited to commerce but it could help show when tactics don't produce the desired outcome
Richard Glover, Evening Standard
Boris Johnson has been indulging in some Down Under dreaming. His fantasy: to repeat the Australian election campaign of May this year a campaign in which a conservative premier was re-elected against the odds. Johnson is doing more than dream. He's hired the Australian strategist Isaac Levido to head his campaign. It was Levido, assisted by two New Zealand digital experts, who engineered that victory for Australia's Prime Minister, Scott Morrison.
War on the Rocks
Until recently, it seemed that the stories that defined East Asia were economic. China's rise perhaps the story of the century followed economic miracles in Japan and South Korea. The Asian financial crisis was painful, but the region bounced back. A major exception was North Korea's development of nuclear weapons, which brought the region to the brink. For the most part, however, East Asia appeared relatively immune from the geopolitics that bedeviled other key regions.
John Broich, The Conversation
Despite many attempts, the Kurds have never won and kept their own nation -- though, after World War I, they came close.
S. Bush, New Statesman
Tom Watson has stood down as Labour MP for West Bromwich East and as the party's deputy leader, in a symbolic blow to Labour's Corbynsceptics and a double coup for Jeremy Corbyn. The victory is two-fold in that the party's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC), which has a strong pro-Corbyn majority, will decide who replaces Watson as the Labour candidate in the reasonably safe seat of West Bromwich East.
Daoud Kuttab, Al Monitor
The Palestinian president's call for general elections appears to have gained traction in Palestine, but many obstacles remain.
