• Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janta Party consolidated power in India’s northeast over the weekend, gaining control over five of the seven states that border Myanmar, Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh. [Reuters]

• The authorities in India detained a member of a far-right Hindu group in connection with the killing of Gauri Lankesh, a journalist whose work was sharply critical of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party. [The New York Times]

• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, embroiled in a bribery scandal in Israel, meets President Trump in Washington. His visit carries great consequence for Israel’s historically close U.S. ties. [The New York Times]

• In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to form a new government with the Social Democrats, ending six months of political limbo. [The New York Times]

• The world’s longest-imprisoned journalist was freed in Uzbekistan. Yusuf Ruzimuradov, accused of sedition, was released after 19 years. [The New York Times]

• “I just happened to take it back into the house.” A 74-year-old Japanese homeowner found a meteroite in his garden that may help explain the formation of the solar system. [The Asahi Shimbun]