Globe Trot: Thousands gather throughout Europe to protest migration

EUROPE: Thousands took to the streets across Europe over the weekend to protest the influx of Middle East migrants.

Here’s what I don’t understand: About 20 migrants drowned over the weekend when a rubber dinghy they were smuggled aboard sank between Turkey and the Greek island of Lesbos. The distance is only a few miles, and aid workers say Turkish and Greek coast guards patrol these waters. So why is there no rescue of these regularly sinking vessels? Why has there been no effort over many months to establish some protocol—European or international—for repatriating would-be migrants or rescuing them, which would quickly halt the smuggling?

NEPAL: Needed supply trucks crossed the border from India to Nepal for the first time in months, ending a standoff that blocked needed aid to the quake-torn Himalayan nation. There have been 428 major aftershocks since Nepal’s devastating April 2015 earthquake. The latest, with a magnitude of 5.5, happened near Pokhra on Friday, injuring 15 people.

NORTH KOREA: The United States and South Korea are in discussions over deploying a new missile defense system after North Korea’s long-range rocket launch Sunday. The launch, believed to be a front for testing a ballistic missile, appears to have sent into orbit a satellite, which passed over the Super Bowl stadium an hour after the game concluded.

BURKINA FASO: Islamic extremists have released one missionary captured in January, Jocelyn Elliot, but continue to hold her husband, Australian physician Ken Elliot. The couple, both in their 80s, have served in the west African nation for more than 40 years.

SYRIA: Amazing drone images of one of Syria’s largest cities, Homs, now nearly five years into civil war, are worth your two minutes.

ELECTION 2016: Partisan gathering or no, it’s hard to imagine Condoleezza Rice, the other female former secretary of state, carrying on like this. Madeleine Albright, rustling support for Hillary Clinton, said, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.”