ISTANBUL (AP) – Riot police in Turkey used water cannons on Tuesday to prevent people from gathering to hear a speech by the deposed leader of the country’s main opposition party.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – The head of an inquiry into antisemitism in Australia on Tuesday said Jewish witnesses who appeared before it are facing online harassment and bigotry and issued a condemnation. The Royal Commission was created in response to two gunmen slaying 15 people at a Sydney Hanukkah celebration in December.

BEIRUT (AP) – Israel’s air force targeted sites belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon, including in the country’s eastern Bekaa Valley, late on Monday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to intensify attacks on the Lebanese militant group.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar told lawmakers on Tuesday his party’s majority in Parliament will form investigative committees to look into alleged corruption and abuses of power by Viktor Orbán and his previous government.

Texans will vote Tuesday in a U.S. Senate primary runoff where incumbent four-term Sen. John Cornyn is facing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in an expensive, drawn-out race that has caught President Donald Trump’s attention.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Two planes carrying 19 Australian women and children linked to the Islamic State group in Syria landed in Melbourne and Sydney on Tuesday, despite Australia’s government warning that the returnees could face charges.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – Senegal ‘s National Assembly elected ousted Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko as parliament speaker Tuesday, defying President Bassirou Diomaye Faye who fired him days earlier and threatening political deadlock in a country already buckling under record debt.