Globe Trot: Vatican visit brings Raul Castro back to church

VATICAN: Cuban President Raul Castro was so taken with the pope at a meeting at the Vatican on Sunday, he may “go back to praying and go back to the church, and I’m not joking.”

V-E DAY: Russia marked the 70th anniversary of World War II victory in Europe on Saturday with a “spectacle of bluster and intimidation,” that missed—both in Moscow and Washington—the lessons of the war’s tense aftermath. At the White House, President Barack Obama called those who served in the war “the generation that literally saved the world.”

UNITED NATIONS: The United States is in the hot seat before the UN Human Rights Council meeting today in Berlin, with delegates voicing concern over police brutality against minorities and U.S. surveillance activities.

IRAQ: The U.S. State Department has reportedly relented and is granting a visa to Sister Diana Momeka, the Iraqi nun denied a visit to testify before Congress on atrocities committed by ISIS.

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Armed rebels signed a peace deal with the Central African Republic government on Sunday, ending two years of fighting that has killed thousands. All sides have agreed to enter a process of “disarmament, demobilization, reintegration, and repatriation.”

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