The Beeb once had (and perhaps still has) a great segment called “without comment” in which clips of incredible things are played.  Here’s your print version of our own “without comment” today, from yesterday’s jaw-dropping daily State Department presser discussing the suspension of food aid to North Korea.

Ah, the power of engagement. New North Korean leader Kim Jong Eun has reportedly agreed to a wide-ranging deal with the Obama administration.

A pocos iraquíes, y a pocos árabes, les gustan los iraníes. Pero tras la salida de EE UU, los iraníes han pasado a ser la fuerza más poderosa en la región, así que los políticos que quieren sobrevivir se afanan por tejer alianzas con Teherán.

El régimen sirio está en sus últimos capítulos. Bachar Al Asad confió en que la comunidad internacional –y la oposición siria– acabarían abandonando la resistencia.

“President Obama has thrown Israel under the bus”—Okay, we get it. The Republican candidates must move beyond repeating that mantra.

As China grows less predictable and the United States less willing to shoulder its responsibilities, familiar patterns of bilateral relations must change.

The Palestinian Authority succeeded last Monday in becoming a member state in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

The only practical result of the General Assembly declaring "Palestine" a state will be to move its chair on the side of the Assembly hall a few feet from its present location to be next to the Vatican, the only other "observer state." This is nothing to get excited about.