- Things have, for the most part, returned to normal, after a tumultuous week between nuclear-armed rivals, India and Pakistan. An Indian pilot was returned from Pakistan Friday, after being shot down over the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday. Now Washington wants to know if an F-16 was used in the dogfight.
- Interim President Juan Guaidó is calling for nationwide demonstrations Monday and Tuesday, and says he plans to return to Venezuela. Guaidó left the country on February 22 for Colombia, in defiance of a travel ban, and met with the President of Ecuador on Sunday.
- Benjamin Netanyahu became the first Prime Minister in ten years— and the second in a row— to be indicted Thursday, in three criminal cases. Polls indicate his center-right coalition could be defeated in the April 9 election by one of the center-left.
- Former Justice Minister and Attorney General, Jody Wilson-Raybould, faced Parliament in Ottawa. At issue was whether the Liberal government— or Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself— pressured Wilson-Raybould to interfere politically in the prosecution of Quebec firm SNC-Lavalin.
- Tens of thousands of Algerians took to the streets this week to protest 81-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s decision to tun for a fifth term. They are the biggest protests the country has seen since Bouteflika came to power 20 years ago, during the country’s decade-long civil war.
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