Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 409th issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine. What travelers feel other world travelers would want to know about: that’s what we’ve been printing going on 35 years now. Plus news affecting travelers.

The US government compiled a list of 14 countries it considers state sponsors of terrorism or “other countries of interest” and, as of Jan. 4, anyone with a passport from one of those countries or anyone who is traveling from or has...

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 407th issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine. We present, among other things, a mix of reader-written firsthand accounts and news items, such as the following.

Three airlines that misinterpreted Transportation Security Administration rules and kept dozens of passengers cooped up on a plane in Rochester, Minnesota, for almost six hours — in violation of a law prohibiting unfair and deceptive practices in air transportation — have been...

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 405th issue of your monthly overseas travel magazine.

Don’t panic! the “Funniest Thing” has only been moved, not eliminated. It now will be found at the end of the last (third) section of Travelers’ Intercom letters. We’re just tidying up a bit.

Of course, I’m well aware that you’ve already found it. I know from numerous phone conversations that the “Funniest Thing” is what most readers turn to first. “Boarding Pass” is farther down the...