*Behind the Beirut explosion lies the lawless world of international shipping.*

It seems that the authorities in Beirut did not know about, or didn't check for, the danger of that particular cargo.

Modi has a last-ditch plan to build 40 new unneeded coal mines just before the coal ceases to be worth much.

*Jeremy Corbyn accuses Labour officials of sabotaging election campaign.*

I can't follow the description of the events in this article, as it depends on too much else. But it is not inherently implausible. The "moderate" (plutocratist) wing of Labour certainly went to great lengths to defeat Corbyn.

*Calls for Woodside to pay $200m to clean up moribund Timor Sea oil site it ran until 2016.*

This is fair — but fossil fuel companies usually go to great lengths not to pay to clean up their own messes.

Peter Beinart: Israelis dehumanize Palestinians by seeing them through the "Holocaust lens" and perceiving them as antisemites when they campaign for their rights.

Beinert advocates a combined state with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians. Roger Cohen argues that two separate states are still necessary and still possible.