The Vatican: Pope Francis, closing a landmark meeting on clerical sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, called for “an all-out battle against the abuse of minors” but didn’t offer the concrete policies demanded by many of the faithful.

Israel: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his future imperiled by prosecutors and political challengers alike, has enraged Jewish leaders in Israel and the U.S. by making a pact with a racist anti-Arab party whose ideology was likened by one influential rabbi to Nazism.

Trade war: President Trump delayed his own March 1 deadline to increase tariffs on Chinese goods, citing “substantial progress” in talks, though few details have been released.

India-Pakistan: Seven decades after the British divided India to create Pakistan, the first museum devoted to the chaos that followed — mass migration, murders, riots and rapes — opened in Amritsar, a city near the border. Curating its exhibits was fraught with risks .

Afghanistan: A U.N. report shows that 2018 was the single deadliest year for civilians in the war-torn country, with children dying in record numbers, and 24 percent of casualties attributed to Afghan and American forces. Meanwhile, the Taliban’s deputy leader arrived in Qatar for what could be the highest-level negotiations yet with American diplomats on ending the Afghan war.

Sex trafficking: A vast investigation in Florida and New York uncovered a multimillion-dollar prostitution operation in which women who the police believe were brought from China on false promises of jobs were trapped in brothels sometimes visited by the rich and famous.