 | | About 1,600 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants have been rescued off Malaysia and Indonesia. European Pressphoto Agency | Your Monday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Crackdown on migrant smuggling. |
| The European Union foreign policy chief is meeting diplomats from the U.N. Security Council today as she tries to get permission for military action against traffickers in international waters and on Libyan shores. |
| On the other side of the world, about 1,600 Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees landed in Malaysia and Indonesia, apparently after traffickers abandoned ship, officials said today. |
| • Suspects in officers' deaths. |
| Four people held in the fatal shooting of two police officers in Hattiesburg, Miss., are to be arraigned today. |
| A memorial service for the two, shot Saturday night during a traffic stop, is this afternoon. |
| • Injured before reaching jail. |
| Correctional officers at a Baltimore jail refused to admit about 2,600 detainees in police custody from 2012 to 2015 because of severe injuries, The Baltimore Sun reports. |
| The records don't show how or when the suspects were injured, but they suggest that police officers either ignored or did not notice the injuries. |
| • How to rescue Greece. |
| Eurozone finance ministers meet today to consider options to help Greece stave off bankruptcy in the next few weeks. |
| Greece has to make a payment of $840 million to the International Monetary Fund by Tuesday before bigger bills come due. |
| • South African politics. |
| The first black leader of South Africa's main opposition party takes over today. The Democratic Alliance has struggled with perceptions that it primarily represents whites. |
| • Ex-C.I.A. official learns his fate. |
| Jeffrey A. Sterling, who was convicted of leaking details of a secret mission to derail Iran's nuclear ambitions to a New York Times reporter, is to be sentenced today in a federal courthouse in Virginia. |
| • Poland election surprise. |
| The conservative challenger to Poland's incumbent president stunned the governing party by winning the largest number of votes in Sunday's first round of presidential balloting. |
| • At the White House. |
| President Obama spends part of the day at an event honoring women and young entrepreneurs. |
| MARKETS |
| • Wall Street stock futures are flat. European shares are mostly down, though London is up. |
| • Asian indexes ended higher after China said it would cut benchmark interest rates for the third time in five months. |
| OVER THE WEEKEND |
| • Liberia was declared free of Ebola, making it the first of the three hardest-hit West African countries to see a formal end to the epidemic. |
| • President Raúl Castro of Cuba said he was so inspired by a visit with Pope Francis at the Vatican that he may return to the Roman Catholic Church. The pope will visit Cuba in September. |
| • President Obama said that Senator Elizabeth Warren, a champion of the left, was "absolutely wrong" in her warnings about potential damage from the proposed Pacific trade deal. |
| • Saudi Arabia said its new king would not attend a summit meeting in the U.S. this week, signaling its unhappiness over U.S. relations with Iran. |
| • Forty inmates in a prison in Iraq escaped amid a riot that left at least six police officers and 30 prisoners dead. |
| • Stormy weather: Flooding and snow hit Colorado, tornadoes touched down in the Midwest and in Texas, and a tropical storm struck South Carolina. |
| • Jameis Winston, the No. 1 pick in the N.F.L. draft, filed a countersuit against the woman who accused him of rape. |
| • "Avengers: Age of Ultron" easily repeated its performance as the movie box-office winner, taking in $77.2 million, for a two-week North American total of $312.9 million. |
| • Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for "Wolf Hall," "Mad Men," "Veep," "Silicon Valley" and "Game of Thrones." |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • A song for Baltimore. |
| Prince released a new song, "Baltimore," with a mention of Freddie Gray, who sustained a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody, and the lyrics "let's take all the guns away." |
| On Sunday night, he headlined the "Rally 4 Peace" concert in Baltimore. Doug E. Fresh and Miguel also performed. |
| • Masterpiece for sale. |
| Picasso's "Les femmes d'Alger (Version 'O')" is expected to be sold for about $140 million at an auction tonight in New York. |
| It could challenge the record for the highest auction price for a work of art — $142.4 million for Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud." |
| • Scoreboard. |
| Rickie Fowler, an American, won the Players Championship (and $1.8 million) after a three-hole aggregate playoff. It is golf's biggest purse. |
| And a buzzer-beater by LeBron James gave Cleveland an 86-84 victory over Chicago on Sunday in Game 4 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series. |
| Tonight's N.B.A. playoff games: Atlanta at Washington at 7:00 Eastern, and Golden State at Memphis at 9:30 (both on TNT). |
| • On the bright side. |
| Benjamin O. Davis Jr. entered the U. S. Military Academy at West Point in 1932 as the only black cadet and spent the next four years being shunned. He roomed alone before graduating 35th in a class of 276. |
| More than a decade after his death, the academy is honoring him by naming new barracks after him. |
| BACK STORY |
| Do you know what country is bordered by Thailand and Cambodia? How about where Caribbean Hindustani is spoken? |
| Or which nation Hiva Oa, one of the main islands in the Marquesas Islands, belongs to? |
| Those were some of the recent questions in the National Geographic Bee. |
| The annual competition for fourth to eighth graders, which tests their knowledge of the globe, begins its national finals and championship round today in Washington. |
| It continues for three days, and will be televised Friday on the National Geographic Channel. |
| First prize is a $50,000 college scholarship, a lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society and a trip to the Galápagos Islands. (Do you know where they are?) |
| The bee began in 1989, after a Gallup survey in 1988 found that 20 percent of 18- to 24-years-olds in the U.S. could not find their own country on a map unless it was labeled. |
| It's not as old or as famous as the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which started in 1925. |
| That's probably O.K. These geography whiz kids have the whole world to worry about, after all. |
| (Answers: Laos; Trinidad and Tobago; and France. The Galápagos are off the northwest coast of South America, and belong to Ecuador.) |
| Victoria Shannon contributed reporting. |
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