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    There is no prospect of a buyout

    Displaced Palestinian boys play football as they shelter at a tent camp, amid the ongoing...
    Displaced Palestinian boys play football as they shelter at a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. PHOTO: REUTERS
    Last week a despairing reader asked me if the solution to the "Middle East Problem" might be to throw money at it: just buy the Palestinians out.

    Is it the mother of all feedbacks?

    A girl runs through a water sprinkler on a hot summer day in New Delhi. PHOTO: REUTERS
    A girl runs through a water sprinkler on a hot summer day in New Delhi. PHOTO: REUTERS
    "Just like this year, last year the heat wave extended from parts of India to Bangladesh and Myanmar, and all the way to Thailand. This year it went further east, into the Philippines. So, it’s the same pattern," Prof Krishna AchutaRao of the Indian Institute of Technology said.

    Well done all — wider war looks to have been averted, for now

    Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, shows a video of Iranian missile attacks...
    Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, shows a video of Iranian missile attacks as he speaks to members of the Security Council. PHOTO: REUTERS
    Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, is embarrassed and humiliated by the complete failure of his drone and missile attack on Israel, but does US President Joe Biden have the empathy to feel sorry for his old adversary in his time of trouble?

    Senegal: Last country standing

    Senegalese presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who is backed by Senegalese opposition...
    Senegalese presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who is backed by Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, casts his vote at the polling station at Ndiaganiao in Mbour, Senegal. PHOTO: REUTERS
    The crisis in Senegal, the one country in West Africa that has never had a military coup, has passed.