Periodically, Bulletin – through the service of the Associated Press – will provide our readers with a roundup of recent editorials from around the globe. This week, it’s a mix of opinions on Donald Trump, college athletes being able to earn money giving unexpected opportunities, critical race theory, UFOs and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and globally:

In this Jan. 15, 2018 file photo, U.S. Marines stand guard during the change of command ceremony at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. Photo: Massoud Hossaini/AP

Selected editorials from Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others.

Editorial roundup: Afghanistan, UFOs, Trump

For decades, Ajsic did not talk openly about the horrors she endured after Bosnian Serb forces stormed the eastern Bosnian town in the waning months of the Balkan country’s 1992-95 war.

Devla Ajsic looks through the ruins of a former battery factory in Potocari near Srebrenica, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. Ajsic, who fled Srebrenica after being sexually abused in July 1995, has returned to live there, but says she is still afraid to walk through the town because she never knows if the people she encounters in the streets are genocide deniers or even took part in it. Photo: Eldar Emric/AP

Srebrenica massacre is acknowledged as a genocide.

Survivors of Bosnia massacre grapple with horrors, deniers

Moldovan voters go to the polls this weekend in a snap parliamentary election that could decide whether the former Soviet republic fully embraces pro-Western reforms or prolongs a political impasse under strong Russian influence.

The landlocked country of 3.5 million — Europe’s poorest, sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine — has in recent years lurched from one political crisis to another, dogged by instability and stuck in geopolitical limbo between pro-Western and pro-Russia forces.

A woman casts her vote in a mobile ballot box in the village of Stolniceni, Moldova, the last time there were a parliamentary election, in February 2019. Photo: Vadim Ghirda/AP

Moldova to hold vote pitting reformists against pro-Russians

Naomi Osaka was not the first professional tennis player to withdraw during a Grand Slam tournament because of mental health concerns — and she likely won’t be the last. Others just might not always be as up-front as Osaka was.

“I’m sure there’s quite a few people struggling. More than we know,” said U.S. Davis Cup captain Mardy Fish, who pulled out of the 2012 U.S. Open when he had a panic attack before he was supposed to face Roger Federer. “There have been plenty of players that have had some mental health issues, whether you know it or not. I have spoken to many players over the last eight or nine years that you’ve heard of — some up-and-coming players; some college players; male and female — that have struggled with that type of stuff. It is prevalent in sports and certainly prevalent in such an individual sport.”

Naomi Osaka’s agent Stuart Duguid wrote Thursday, June 17, 2021, in an email that Osaka “is taking some personal time with friends and family. She will be ready for the Olympics and is excited to play in front of her home fans.” Photo: Alessandra Tarantino/AP

”This bubble stuff — you can’t factor in how much it weighs on each person.”