Globe Trot: Obama calls for course correction in Athens

GREECE: President Obama called for “a course correction” in the path to globalization. In a speech following a tour of the Acropolis in Athens, the birthplace of democracy, Obama appeared to take on the isolationism fueling his successor, Donald Trump, saying the impulse to pull back from a globalized world “is understandable.” But he added, “We can’t look backward for answers, we have to look forward.”

ISRAEL: A bill in the Knesset ending early-morning Muslim calls to prayer is, not surprisingly, drawing outcries.

ETHIOPIA: Amid an ongoing crackdown and strife on the streets, three teenage Christian girls have been taken to court over distributing Christian literature.

SYRIA: Christians returning to the city of Homs are finding poetry and heartache.

PHILIPPINES: This R-rated long read on Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte shows how his weakness is that he’s such a tough guy.

JAPAN: At a busy intersection in Fukuoka, a giant sinkhole gets fixed in one week.