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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

 Denmark tells new citizens to shake hands
Residents slowly abandon a forgotten town on Hispaniola

 Mexico’s president owns no cars or real estate, but his wife does
Easter Island leader says Moai statue might be better left in British Museum

 France drops fuel tax hike amid 'yellow vest' protests
Ukraine bars Russian men after naval clash

 Switzerland holds vote about cow horns
Former leaders convicted of genocide in Cambodia

Thousands flee killer wildfires in California
U.S. calls for truce, Saudis launch attack in Yemen

 Ireland votes to end blasphemy law
Ireland votes to end blasphemy law

 Women are half the ministers in Ethiopia’s new cabinet
Spacecraft makes emergency landing in Kazakhstan

Trump: I told Saudi king he wouldn't last without U.S. support
Chinese buy most “golden visas” in Portugal

 New Zealand celebrates 125 years of women having the vote
Florence floods the Carolinas

 Florence floods the Carolinas
U.S. chastises nations for ending ties to Taiwan

 Remains of a brutal past returned to Namibia
Climate change opens the Arctic to shipping

 Ecuador declares emergency over Venezuelan migrants at its border
Trump raises tariffs on NATO ally Turkey

 Sweden’s crown jewels are stolen
Severe weather kills hundreds in Japan

 Luxembourg police deploy Tesla cars
Nicaragua militias attack church to get to students

 Thailand races to save boys trapped in cave
Algeria turns off internet for high school exams

 Name deal stirs up Greece and ‘North’ Macedonia
Singapore hosts nuclear negotiations

 Trump slaps tariffs on allies in Europe, Canada and Mexico
Brazil sends in troops to clear protesting truckers

 Ebola spreads to city of 1.2 million in Congo
Iran and Israel trade attacks in Syria

 Bering Sea ice drops to record low
Driver kills 10, injures 15 plowing van into Toronto sidewalk crowd

 King of Swaziland proclaims his nation will be henceforth known as eSwatini

Syrian man trapped in Malaysia airport

 Russia tests missiles in the Baltic Sea, a day after Baltic leaders met with Trump

Nobel Prize winner Malala visits her Pakistan hometown

Bolivians demand access to sea at nationwide parades

Finland is rated the happiest while U.S. grows sadder

 Reporter’s murder stirs mass protests in Slovakia
Is China getting a ‘president for life’

 Trump execs fight eviction from Panama hotel
Will South Korea-North Korea thaw outlast Olympics?

 Valentine’s Day roses courtesy of Colombia
Laser scans finds Mayan ‘megalopolis’ in Guatemala

 Bid to outlaw talk of ‘Poland death camps’ stirs anger
South African city is running out of water

 False missile alert panics Hawaii
Electric and hybrid cars outsell others in Norway

 More autonomy for Corsica gets a boost
Trump decision on Jerusalem sparks protests

 Citizens walk for hours to vote in Nepal
Argentina to keep searching for lost submarine

 Zimbabweans celebrate expected Mugabe downfall
Tensions rise after Lebanon’s prime minister ‘quits’

 Cosmic rays reveal hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid
5-day funeral ends for Thailand’s king

 Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta’s ties to tax havens

Millions flushed away in Switzerland

 Madagascar battles plague outbreak
Vanuatu flotilla begins evacuating islanders from volcano

 Earthquakes kill hundreds in Mexico
Myanmar troops force 400,000 to flee to Bangladesh

 Hurricane Irma rips up the Caribbean on way to U.S.
65,000 evacuated in Germany to dispose of WWII bomb

 Hurricane Harvey tears up Texas
Terrorist drivers kill 14 in Spain

 Guam caught in a war of words with North Korea
China opens first overseas military base in Djibouti

 Boring, Oregon, finds friends in Dull and Bland
Trump says Iran is complying with nuclear deal

 Ecuador stops building border wall after Peru protests
Singapore turns vacant space into urban farms

 Arizona gets too hot for some planes to handle
At least 62 killed in forest fire in Portugal

 Qatar isolated in Persian Gulf crisis
Truck bomb kills at least 80, wounds hundreds in Afghanistan

 Bombing rocks Manchester in northern England
Saudi Arabia is Trump’s first stop

 Banana boom brings cash and chemicals to Laos
France elects a new president

 Trump talks tough about both North and South Korea

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