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Joe the pigeon is spared the death sentence in Australia	Billions in ‘Brexit compensation’ demanded for Scotland
Volcano alerts issued on 2 islands in the Lesser Antilles	Mount Everest is 3 feet taller, says Nepal
Honduras president seeks storm aid and warns of migration surge	North Korea’s leader reported worried about COVID-19 and Biden
Ireland responds quickly to save a beloved zoo	Ethiopia conflict spills over its border
Denmark will kill all of its farmed mink because of coronavirus	Earthquake in Aegean Sea hits feuding neighbors
Dozens die in police brutality protests in Nigeria	2 West African presidents reject term limits
13 charged in plot to kidnap Michigan governor	Malta lets 7-year-old prince keep his shark’s tooth
Pandemic strands Pacific islanders 2,600 miles away from home	Caribbean nation of Barbados plans to fire the queen
Fires ravage refugee camp on Greece’s island of Lesbos	African migrants head for Canary Islands
Russians hold war games in the Bering Sea	Wisconsin and North Carolina lose convention booms to pandemic
United Arab Emirates agrees to ties with Israel	Lebanon’s people blame political leaders for massive explosion
Thousands in Germany protest coronavirus restrictions	California becomes the state hit hardest by Covid-19
Georgia's governor bars cities, counties from requiring face masks	Thailand denies monkeys are abused to harvest coconuts
Giant dust plume sweeps in from Sahara Desert	U.S. warns of pirates in the Gulf of Mexico
Statue of king who brutalized Congo is removed in Belgium	Peru is running out of oxygen for coronavirus patients
Protests over Minnesota death spread across nation	Bay of Bengal spawns another deadly cyclone
Top fugitive in Rwanda’s genocide is arrested	South Africa’s lockdown reveals a deadly habit
Canada bans assault-style weapons after Nova Scotia massacre	El Salvador authorizes use of lethal force against gangs
Melting ice reveals ancient Viking trade route in Norway	Boy in Estonia led neo-Nazis tied to bomb plots
NATO welcomes North Macedonia	U.S. charges Venezuela’s president with drug trafficking
U.S. charges Venezuela’s president with drug trafficking	Finland is still the ‘happiest’ nation
Syria’s civil war enters 10th year	Police fire tear gas at migrants on Greece-Turkey border
Gunfight between Haiti police and soldiers ends Carnival	Croatia’s attorney general steps down for being a Freemason
Russia trying to take over Belarus, leader says	New high temperature reported in Antarctica
Britain leaves the European Union	China locks down 50 million people as new virus spreads
Swarms of locusts plague East Africa	Drought, climate change threaten Panama Canal
U.S. drone attack in Iraq stirs up Mideast	16 die as volcano erupts in New Zealand
Australia’s wildfires choke Sydney	Trump resumes peace talks with Taliban in Afghanistan
Southern Africa’s deadly drought is leaving millions hungry	High tides swamp Venice in northern Italy
French woman not French enough for Quebec	Protests force Chile to drop plans to host summits
Solomon Islands reject Chinese deal to lease an entire island	Protests and a general strike paralyze Barcelona, Spain
Ecuador’s president moves government to avoid protests	Ukraine rocked by U.S. political storm
Threat of Mont Blanc glacier collapse forces evacuation	Online videos spark protests over corruption in Egypt
Drone strikes hit major oil sites in Saudi Arabia	Austria’s capital listed as the world’s ‘most liveable city’
Indonesia to move its capital from a sinking city	Tensions grow between U.S. allies Japan and South Korea
Beer with the prince: Liechtenstein marks its 300th anniversary	Fired scientist warns of Amazon deforestation in Brazil
Mass shootings kill at least 29 in Texas and Ohio	Puerto Rico’s governor resigns after protests
Dutch court rules on a massacre in Bosnia and Herzegovina	‘Wrong man’ from Eritrea freed after 3 years in Italian prison
Wrong man’ from Eritrea freed after 3 years in Italian prison	Fox travels 2,175 miles across the arctic in 76 days
Dominican Republic deaths don’t look all that “mysterious”	Hundreds of thousands protest in Hong Kong
Vatican City Radio delivers the news – in Latin	Philippines returns garbage to sender
European Union voters choose a parliament	Iran’s leaders and Trump say they don’t want war
Hostages rescued in Burkina Faso praise fallen French commandos	Thailand crowns a king
Drones begin delivering medical supplies in Ghana	Northern Ireland leaders urge calm after journalist's killing
Rulers ousted, protesters demand more change in Algeria and Sudan	U.S.-China trade talks could bring a presidential summit
Brunei defends tough new Islamic laws	Trump backs Israel’s authority over seized territory
March Madness is on a march to Minnesota	Road building sparks fighting in New Guinea
Grandmother rescued from an iceberg in Iceland	Attack inflames tensions between India and Pakistan
Nearly 1,000 Madagascar children dead of measles	Vietnam will host new talks between Trump and Kim
Calling Gibraltar a colony upsets Britain	Students in Belgium skip school to join climate protests

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