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The Times / London
Immigrants can stay, if they get work

鈥淸I]t is important ... that national governments ... retain the right to decide whether migrants should or should not be eligible for benefits.... Nationals from other European Union nations who want to stay longer than three months have to be in work, seeking work or able to show that they will not become a burden on public funds. Anyone who is not working has to pass a 鈥榟abitual residence test鈥� to prove a genuine link with this country. Claimants also have to show that they are actively seeking work. If they cannot do so, benefits are docked...,鈥� . 鈥淚t is right to be tough on eligibility for benefits. It is hard to explain why someone with no work history in this country should be kept by the taxpayer.鈥�

Yemen Times / Sanaa, Yemen
Houthi movement too fractured to lead

鈥淎 month after the Houthi [a Shiite insurgent group and a rival to Al Qaeda] conquest of [Yemen鈥檚 capital city, Sanaa] ... the Houthi leadership is trying to coax Yemen鈥檚 political elite into a coalition government, while south of [Sanaa], Houthi forces are pressing to consolidate their military power on the ground...,鈥� . 鈥淭he Houthi face considerable obstacles consolidating their power in the middle regions, western coast, and in the eastern desert because people in these regions tend to see the Houthis as foreigners. To consolidate power in these regions, the Houthis must be able to establish security, stability, and justice, as they did in the north....鈥�

Korea JoongAng Daily / Seoul, South Korea
Now is the moment for dialogue between the US and North Korea

鈥淭he decision [to release two Americans] came three weeks after freeing Jeffrey Fowle, another U.S. citizen who had been detained for five months for leaving a Bible at a club for sailors...,鈥� . 鈥淭he U.S. government has underscored that the release is only a human rights issue, reaffirming that there will be no change in U.S. policy toward Pyongyang and that Washington will not agree to negotiations with the North until it proves its determination to disarm its nuclear weapons program.... As the North inches toward sophisticating of nuclear weapons, there are also rumors that it has begun to reactivate a second highly enriched uranium factory. Whatever the case, Washington and Pyongyang need to communicate. We hope the release of Americans serves a catalyst for kicking off dialogue.鈥澛�

The Hindu / Chennai, India
Government asks Facebook to censor some content

鈥淔acebook has disclosed that it restricted as many as 4,960 items of content on the social networking site in India in compliance with official requests in the first half of 2014.... [The requests] were made 鈥榰nder local laws prohibiting criticism of a religion or the state...,鈥� 鈥� . 鈥淚t is indeed a bitter reality that social media have sometimes been used to spread rumours.... However, the moot question is whether it will be reasonable to use the principle to bar all criticism of the state or religion.... If the government is making thousands of requests [to block] content, it should be transparent about the real nature of its requests. Only then will it be possible for citizens to know if they fall squarely within the constitutionally recognised reasonable restrictions, or if they amount to misuse of archaic laws.鈥�

The Globe and Mail / Toronto
Energy East pipeline is needed for Canada鈥檚 economy

鈥淚f there were ever a major energy project that Canada鈥檚 economy needed, and needed to work well, it is the Energy East pipeline proposal from TransCanada Corp. If it ... lives up to its billing, the pipeline would demonstrate to skeptics the viability of transporting bitumen from Alberta鈥檚 oil sands via pipeline, lessen the oil industry鈥檚 growing dependence on rail, open up new markets for Canadian crude overseas and ... [create] a deep-water terminal...,鈥� . 鈥淎lberta鈥檚 oil industry is one of this country鈥檚 major economic drivers; the capacity to extract oil is there, more is being built, and that oil has to move somehow.鈥�