MEXICO: Republican leaders in Congress and leading trade groups are urging President Donald Trump not to close the U.S.-Mexico border, as he threatens to do, saying it would be economically devastating.

TURKEY: The party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suffered a high-profile defeat in municipal elections on Sunday, ceding control of the capital Ankara to the opposition. Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) also appears to have lost Istanbul, the country’s biggest city, in a stunning rebuke for Erdogan, who is also AKP party chairman and widened his executive powers under a new presidential system introduced last year.

When President Donald Trump at 12:50 on a Thursday afternoon tweeted it was “time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights,” the average world citizen said a collective “huh?” Israel captured two-thirds of the strategic plateau from Syria in 1967 during the Six-Day War—and no one has seriously contested its control in more than 50 years.

MALI: The death toll in an attack on the village of Ogossagou in central Mopti has risen to more than 160, according to local sources, in what appears to be Muslim-on-Muslim violence. Despite the deployment of a multinational stabilization force late last year, Mali remains the epicenter for jihadists in the Sahel.

SYRIA: Syrian Democratic Forces declared the “100% territorial defeat of ISIS”—ending a six-week offensive to flush out the militants from an area the size of New York’s Central Park. “This is a big moment not just for us, but for all of the world,” said SDF spokesman Kino Gabriel.

IRAQ: Protesters in Mosul Friday confronted President Barham Salih, as he attempted to visit the site of Thursday’s ferry sinking on the Tigris River, with 91 people confirmed dead and 112 missing.

MOZAMBIQUE: UN officials say Cyclone Idai may be the worst ever disaster to strike the Southern Hemisphere. Last Friday’s storm packed 125-mph winds with heavy rain, and has left a swath of destruction across Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe affecting millions.