Globe Trot: ISIS ready to recruit Palestinians in Syrian refugee camp

SYRIA: Islamic State militants say they have entered Yarmouk, the Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. Yarmouk is old enough its homeless inhabitants have been used as pawns by Yasser Arafat, and by both Hafez and Bashir Assad. More than a few residents probably can be radicalized and turned into ISIS suicide bombers. But I forgot to mention the UN: The head of UNWRA toured the camp in January—his first visit in years, he said—and reporters watched while his entourage handed out 60 food packets in a camp housing 18,000 clearly desperate war victims.

KENYA: Authorities say at least 147 are dead and 79 confirmed injured in an early morning attack claimed by al-Shabaab militants on a Christian university in Garissa, a town in northeastern Kenya 90 miles west of the Somali border. Collins Wetangula told the Associated Press he locked himself and three roommates in their dormitory room, then heard the gunmen opening doors, asking if those inside were Muslims or Christians, and shooting the Christians.

IRAN: Negotiators today say they’ve reached an important agreement with Iran—but once again, a new deadline of June 30 has been set for making it comprehensive.

CANADA: Medical schools in Canada are debating how they will adjust curriculum to train doctors in physician-assisted suicide after a unanimous ruling of Canada’s Supreme Court in February gave Parliament a year to craft a law that recognizes the right of consenting adults with a “grievous and irremediable” medical condition to seek a doctor’s aid to end their lives. Lawmakers likely will be called to debate conscience protections, as only 20 percent of Canadian physicians, according to surveys, are willing to assist in suicide.

For example, Cavers said he might be willing to prescribe narcotic patches that patients would apply to their skin to make them go to sleep and then die in 12 to 24 hours, but he doesn’t think he’d be comfortable as an “active participant in the death act” by starting an intravenous line to expedite death.

NASA captured amazing images of the eye of Super Typhoon Maysak, a Category 5 storm headed toward the Philippines, as the international space station crossed over it this week.

GLOBE TROTTING: Read about a man who visited all 196 nations of the world. It took him 50 years.

You can spend hours looking at these studies that are issued by the World Bank and the IMF. But I found the surest way to know where a country ranks economically and socially is to go to a public bathroom and check the toilet paper.