Following a fratricidal period for the left with Morales and Arce at loggerheads, right-wing, anti-MAS candidates obtained over 85 per cent of the votes cast in the latest general election, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ

IF YOU were wondering where the Neanderthal branch of our species ended up, the answer lies in those populating the recent Republican National Convention, on stage and off.
Watching the line-up of stiff, make-up-caked, too perfectly coiffed speakers was like seeing what would happen if Mattel went bad. This was Ken and Barbie controlled by evil AI puppetmasters.
Amid all the disbelief-inducing, teleprompt-recited false rhetoric, the most risible was the drumbeat of doom that a Democratic government led by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would plunge us into Marxist mayhem.

Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter

Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

The crew of the Freedom Flotilla boat, Handala, warned Israel to obey international law but are now in captivity, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER