Nestor Carbonell, National Review
The State Department, the CIA, and the Pentagon have stepped up efforts to investigate a series of health incidents, deemed "directed-energy attacks," which have injured American officers in Cuba, China, Russia, and elsewhere. Now we have learned that the U.S. is also probing suspected attacks in Miami and Alexandria, Va., as well as near the White House.
G. Gebreluel, Al Jazeera
Three years ago, a wave of political change swept across the Horn of Africa. In Sudan and Ethiopia, popular protests led to a change in leadership and what many assumed were democratic transitions. Ethiopia and Eritrea ended their two-decades-long rivalry, for which Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The peoples of the Horn of Africa were euphoric for what many thought would be a new chapter in the region's history.
Caroline De Gruyter, Foreign Policy
Jonathan Miller, Spectator
Let me go out on a limb here and predict that Michel Barnier, who is trying to rekindle his modest and largely forgotten political career on the back of his notoriety as the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, is not going to be the next president of France.
Yana Pashaeva, LA Times
While President Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are trying to decide where to meet — in Vienna, Reykjavik or Helsinki? — Americans and Russians are trying to figure out whether the sanctions imposed by the two countries make it impossible for them to visit Moscow or Washington.
Stephen Pollard, CapX
Twenty nine years ago, Labour suffered a defeat that few of its members expected. In 1987 they knew they were on a hiding to nothing, with Mrs Thatcher in her pomp. By the 1992 election, with John Major as PM, the party had convinced itself that victory was on its way, as the polls consistently had Labour ahead.
Mark Landler, New York Times
Prime Minister Boris Johnson hoped to use the opening of Britain's Parliament on Tuesday to galvanize his government's agenda after a striking series of victories in regional elections in England last week. But the spotlight shone brightest on Queen Elizabeth II, who appeared in public for the first time since burying her husband, Prince Philip, to handle the age-old pageantry.
Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg
The limits of talking softly with Yemen's brutal Houthi rebels should now be abundantly clear to the Biden administration. The trouble is that the U.S. has no big stick to wield instead.
Mairav Zonszein, TAP
Within the span of a few days in April, violent confrontations erupted in East Jerusalem that were severe enough for the U.S. Embassy and State Department to put out a statement, expressing "deep concern" and calling for "safety, security, and rights" for all in Jerusalem. A Jewish supremacist group with ties to a newly elected Knesset member had...
James Steinberg, NI
Peter Beinart's recent New York Times opinion piece on the Biden administration's policy toward Taiwan misconstrues the new administration's approach to Cross-Strait relations, but even more important, fundamentally misunderstands what will be necessary to sustain stability and prosperity in East Asia during a time when China's increasingly assertive approach toward Taiwan threatens to upend more than four decades of peace in the Western Pacific.
Frank Ching, Globe & Mail
In a recent casual conversation, a diplomat due to retire later this year told me that he had originally intended to remain in Hong Kong and join the private sector. But now, he said, "that is clearly impossible."
