Globe Trot: Obama to skip Armenian genocide commemoration

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TURKEY: U.S. President Barack Obama will not use the word “genocide” this year when commemorating the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. And the president will send Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to Friday’s ceremony marking the 100th anniversary in Yerevan, Armenia, while Russian President Vladimir Putin and other heads of state will be in attendance.

GERMANY: With an unfolding migration crisis, European officials are finally admitting the world’s refugee management system is broken. Migrant survivors aboard the vessel that wrecked over the weekend, killing about 800, say, “They were putting us inside like fish.” And in this account, migrants as young as 6 months old arrived with burns, after a gas canister exploded in the area where smugglers held them on land before loading them onto a rubber dinghy.

BURMA/MYANMAR: In Burma, a ceasefire hasn’t stopped the fighting. And Christian Kachins are the victims.

ISRAEL: Though it can’t be read without a microscope, the “Nano Bible” went on exhibit at the Israel Museum yesterday.

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Mindy Belz

Mindy, a former senior editor for WORLD Magazine, wrote the publication’s first cover story in 1986. She has covered wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Africa, and the Balkans and is author of They Say We Are Infidels: On the Run From ISIS With Persecuted Christians in the Middle East. Mindy resides in Asheville, N.C.

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