Globe Trot: Cuba cracks down on dissidents ahead of Obama visit

CUBA: Authorities arrested more than 50 demonstrators and dissidents in Havana ahead of President Barack Obama’s arrival yesterday. The wives and other relatives of jailed anti-Castro activists have marched for the last 46 Sundays but were knocked down and hauled off this time. Obama, who touched down in Havana with his family aboard Air Force One Sunday afternoon, has a schedule that includes a sit-down with President Raul Castro this morning.

NORTH KOREA fired a medium-range missile on Friday and test-fired five short-range missiles today, all landing in the sea—and all presumed a provocation for UN sanctions over the regime’s January detonation of a nuclear device.

SYRIA and IRAQ: After Secretary of State John Kerry’s genocide determination last week, five policy follow-ons could help religious minorities—refugee resettlement visas, property restitution, a place at the peace table, humanitarian aid, and reconstruction aid.

ELECTION 2016: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is assembling a team of rivals when it comes to foreign policy.

YEMEN: Sister Sally, the only surviving nun in the ISIS attack on a Missionaries of Charity facility in Yemen, has given a harrowing account, in her own hand, of the assault that killed 16, telling how she survived by hiding in a walk-in refrigerator.

RUSSIA: A Russian court appears set to deliver a guilty verdict in a high-profile murder case the West and Ukraine say is a further effort to punish Kiev for its uprising against Russian-backed pols.