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On Tuesday, a coroner ruled that paratroopers shot dead ten "entirely innocent" people in Belfast almost fifty years ago. On the same day, the Government pledged to "introduce legislation to address the legacy of the Troubles", in the Queen's Speech.
Bremmer & Wyne, Diplomat
The Economist raised eyebrows recently by characterizing Taiwan as "the most dangerous place on Earth." President Tsai Ing-wen herself responded, noting that Taipei has "actively worked to strengthen our national defense, especially our asymmetric capabilities."
Ishaq Khalid, BBC
Seven months into his first term in 2015 President Muhammadu Buhari coined the term, but the group and its offshoots have never gone away. The military has managed to retake territory and dislodged the fighters from some of their hideouts.
Yossi Klein Halevi, New York Times
Israelis are adept at the pretense of normalcy. We move with seeming ease between daily life and life-threatening crisis. Our home front has endured assaults from Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles, Hezbollah's Katyushas and precision missiles, Hamas's homemade rockets and the more lethal Iranian models currently falling on our neighborhoods, along with suicide bombing and car ramming and stabbing sprees.
Al Jazeera
As evidence of the Chinese government's atrocities against Uighur and other Turkic Muslims continues to mount - satellite images of concentration camps; leaked state blueprints for mass exploitation and internment; survivor testimony of disappearances, torture, and sexual abuse - so too do the political contradictions in the international response.
Americas Quarterly
When he takes office as Ecuador's president on May 24, Guillermo Lasso will finally have a shot at the market-oriented overhaul of the country's economy and institutions that he has promised for three consecutive presidential campaigns.
Fintan O'Toole, New York Review of Books
In On the Genealogy of Morality Friedrich Nietzsche considers the nature of revenge. People with power, he suggests, can take a literal revenge on their enemies: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. People with little or no power, Nietzsche writes, when "denied the proper response of action, compensate for it only with imaginary revenge."
Nicholas, Wahlquist, Ball, & Evershed, The Guardian
Who owns the Australian outback is a vexed question. The true answer is First Nations peoples, whose ownership stems back 60,000 years. The legal answer is more complex. It's a mess of titles - freehold, pastoral leases, crown leases, public land, native title and land held by Aboriginal trusts.
National Interest
As the Gaza conflict escalates, the Kremlin walks a tightrope to preserve and extend its intricate web of interests in the Middle East.
Matt Alt, New Yorker
Japan has a long and complicated relationship with the Olympics. Tokyo's successful bid for the 1940 Summer Games was the first such campaign by a non-Western nation, but Japan's invasion of China in 1937 compelled the government to forfeit its hard-won hosting privileges to the runner-up city of Helsinki.
Houston Chronicle
My American friends keep asking me the same question these days, and for weeks I have struggled to find a conclusive answer: What happened to Germany?
