Globe Trot: Mexico demands answers for tourist deaths in Egypt

EGYPT: Mexican authorities are demanding a full investigation after Egyptian troops mistakenly opened fire on Mexican tourists in Egypt’s western desert, killing eight.

MEXICO: Nearly a year after 43 students disappeared in Iguala, a government report on their deaths at the hands of drug cartel members is being widely discredited. The incident has prompted many to come forward and report “other disappeared,” with at least 158 new cases filed at a local church in Iguala and 104 remains identified and returned to families.

ISIS: The goal of ISIS, according to one analyst, is to “incite a global apocalyptic war” through regional affiliates and efforts to create chaos in the wider world. A map shows how ISIS is faring at reaching that goal.

ZIMBABWE: Dictator Robert Mugabe over the years employed paramilitary units to confiscate white-owned farmland for black political patrons in a land redistribution scheme I profiled in 2010. It turned Zimbabwe from the “breadbasket of Africa” into an aid-dependent importer of food. But now those black-owned farms are turning to white management in new “joint partnerships” to rescue a beleaguered economy.

YEMEN: Prime Minister Khaled Bahah has returned from six months’ exile in Saudi Arabia in an effort to set up an alternate Saudi-backed government in Aden to rival the Houthi rebel-controlled government in the capital, Sanaa.

AUSTRALIA: Malcolm Turnbull, Australia’s new prime minister, is likely to liberalize policy on gay marriage and climate change in the wake of conservative Tony Abbott’s ouster.