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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

 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

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