Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers around the world that may be of interest to our readers:

Times of (Ndola) Zambia, on South African attacks on immigrants:

The ugly scenes of xenophobic violence perpetrated by some South Africans on foreign nationals settled there, calls for immediate remedy before many more lives are lost. Not surprisingly, United Church of Zambia (UZC) Theological College lecturer, Collin Johnson, President Mwanawasa and Zambia Army chaplain, James Phiri all condemned the violence yesterday. ...

Surely, South Africans must realise by now that the world has become a global village and people now travel to any place where there are jobs that require the skills they possess. This has become an accepted way of life internationally.

Matters such as protecting jobs for local people are handled by governments which, as a matter of policy, designate categories reserved for local skills. That is the more civilised way of doing business internationally. ...

This is not beyond the capabilities of the South African government to achieve. Resorting to violent means, is therefore not only anachronistic but also barbaric.

The violence is not only barbaric but casts a negative aspersion on the African continent, which is already faced with numerous challenges. ...

We therefore urge South Africans to stop the xenophobic attacks as they too may, one day, travel to countries in the region such as Mozambique and Zimbabwe whose citizens they are now mugging.

The Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald, on Sen. Clinton's run for the nomination:

Time and numbers have just about run out for Hillary Clinton. At this late stage in the long struggle against Barack Obama to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, it would surely be in her party's and her own interests for her to stand aside with good grace. She has already proved beyond doubt that she is no quitter - hanging on tenaciously as her supporters flirt with despair, remorselessly upbeat, pulling off comeback victories in primary contests in key states. Yet she is now in danger of being perceived as something worse than a quitter: a spoiler who is putting the Democrats' prospects of winning the White House at hazard. Senator Clinton does not see it that way. ...

Her good win this week in Kentucky (she lost in Oregon) seems to have stiffened her resolve to stay in the race at least until the final ballots have been held, in South Dakota and Montana, on June 3. Not that these will significantly change the overall electoral mathematics, which have moved inexorably against her. ... She is within her rights, but it makes no sense.

The good news for the Democrats is that she and Senator Obama have stopped attacking each other personally. Senator Clinton now declares that, once the nomination is decided, the party will unite behind the candidate, although she adds the cheeky rider, "whoever she may be". ...