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Age (Australia)
Australia: Six months into the job, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is still enjoying a honeymoon with voters, says an editorial in the Age.
Australian
Australia: Russell Trood, deputy chairman of Australia's Senate foreign affairs committee, says Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's ambitious new foreign policy agenda will go unfulfilled unless the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) receives more resources.
Immigration: In an editorial, the paper praises Immigration Minister Chris Evan's recent call for a national debate on raising the quota of foreign workers.
Business Day (South Africa)
South Africa: Cyril Madlala, editor of UmAfrika, says South Africans should pause and reflect on their own violent history to prevent getting caught up in a wave of xenophobia.
Boston Globe
Middle East: In an editorial, the paper says the recent trip to the region by President Bush was an exercise in the contradiction between the president's words and his actions.
China Post (Taiwan)
China: In an op-ed, writer Joe Hung argues that this month's visit to Japan by Chinese President Hu Jintao is a sign relations between the two countries are warming.
Chosun Ilbo (South Korea)
North Korea: In an editorial, the paper criticizes President Lee Myung-bak for flip-flopping on whether to provide food aid to North Korea.
Christian Science Monitor
Lebanon: CFR fellow Mohamad Bazzi says the current conflict in Lebanon can be traced back to a 1943 power-sharing agreement designed to balance competing sectarian factions.
Daily Monitor (Uganda)
Corruption: Columnist Sam Byamugisha welcomes President Museveni's renewed focus on corruption but says that rather than looking to parliament for a solution, the Ugandan president should go straight to the source, the ministries themselves.
Daily Nation (Kenya)
Uganda: Writer Zachary Ochieng argues that internal divisions within the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have resulted in the collapse of a peace agreement between the Ugandan government and the group.
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Corruption: An editorial addresses the fallout from a scandal involving the Dhaka Electric Supply Authority (DESA).
Myanmar: Former vice president of the Philippines Teofisto Guingona says that the Indonesia's experience with the tsunami in 2004 makes it well suited to assist in the current humanitarian crisis in Myanmar.
Daily Star (Lebanon)
Lebanon: In an editorial, the paper writes that all Lebanese, despite their political allegiances, are united in the belief that the country's leaders should not return from the summit in Doha until a settlement to the political crisis is reached.
Financial Times
South Africa: In an editorial, the paper says the escalating violence in the country should serve as a warning to the government of South Africa.
Inflation: George Magnus, senior economic adviser at UBS Investment Bank, says it's time for governments to embrace an agenda that recognizes high food and energy prices are here to stay.
Haaretz
Corruption: An editorial in Haaretz weighs in on the bribery scandal that could bring down Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government.
Jakarta Post
Currency: IMF economist Agus Firmansyah asks whether its time for a redenomination of the Indonesia rupiah.
Indonesia: In an editorial, the paper marks the one hundred anniversary of Indonesia's independence and asks what the next one hundred years has in store for the country.
Moscow Times
Campaign 2008: Edward Lonzansky, president of the American University in Moscow, says Senator McCain's Russia policy is troublesome.
Russia: Economist Alexei Bayer writes that even after the election of Dmitry Medvedev, former President Vladimir Putin continues to struggle with the question of succession.
News (Pakistan)
Corruption: In an editorial, the paper laments the culture of corruption which has spread to include nearly every aspect of life.
New York Times
Middle East: In an editorial, the paper says President Bush has left a disastrous legacy in the Middle East.
Campaign 2008: Columnist David Brooks writes that in deciding to support the $307 billion farm bill, Senator Obama has shown he is unable to take on special interests.
The Times (South Africa)
South Africa: Columnist Justice Malala says the current violence can be traced back to the African National Congress (ANC) and a decade of failed policies.
Times of India
Education: An editorial in the paper examines the surge in enrollment in English-language schools in recent years.
Times of London
Military: Despite their impressive lineage and recent deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Sierra Leone, the Times bemoans the fact that the country's armed forces remain invisible to most British.
South Africa: In another editorial, the paper says Thabo Mbeki's complacency toward Mugabe's Zimbabwe has contributed to the current violence in South Africa.
Wall Street Journal
Iraq: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani says progress is being made in Iraq.
Military: Columnist William McGurn asks why the Reserve Officer's Training Corps (ROTC) program is still not welcomed on the campus of Harvard university.
War on Terror: In an editorial, the paper says military commissions are vital to prosecuting the war on terror.
Washington Post
Campaign 2008: Columnist Anne Applebaum says it's time for politicians to stop invoking Nazi analogies in discussions of foreign policy.
Russia: Carnegie's Masha Lipman says the repressive media policies adopted during Putin's tenure are likely to continue under President Medvedev.
Campaign 2008: Op-ed columnist Richard Cohen says Hillary Clinton's decision to stay in the race will help her chances in 2012.
Myanmar: In an editorial, the paper urges UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon not to let the military junta define the terms of humanitarian aid when he visits the country tomorrow.
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