Globe Trot: Saudi women prepare to vote for the first time

SAUDI ARABIA: Women will vote for the first time this weekend as Saudis go to the polls.

IRAQ: Yesterday, a privately chartered Airbus 321 carried 149 Christian refugees from the camp that has been their refuge for more than a year to their new home in Slovakia. It’s the first of several planned airlifts organized by a Christian charity with help from Glenn Beck and the cooperation of Kurdish authorities. The Iraqis have been living in temporary housing in Iraqi Kurdistan since ISIS forced them from their homes, killing many, in mid-2014. Read more about their evacuation here.

UNITED STATES: The fear of terrorism is lifting Donald Trump further in polls, and a focus group by political consultant Frank Luntz shows the billionaire businessman’s remarkable staying power. A panel of leading Christian experts on religious liberty denounced the hard-line stance against Muslim immigration voiced by Trump and evangelist Franklin Graham.

PUERTO RICO: An up-close look at Puerto Rico’s looming debt crisis shows the far-reaching consequences for U.S. states.

AUSTRALIA: The search for the elusive creator of Bitcoin may—or may not—be over.

CANADA: Maple syrup rebels and smugglers are trying to outrun a government monopoly on the industry they say functions like the Mafia. Happy weekend.