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Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 442nd issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine, the one that prints the reports you send in.

In the July issue, I wrote on the rules about having spare batteries, particularly lithium batteries, in checked luggage and carry-ons on planes. I then made this request of ITN subscribers: “After you next board a flight within or from India, or if you recently did so, tell us what regulations you were made aware of in regard to packing spare batteries in your checked luggage and whether or not the rules were different for lithium batteries.”...

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 447th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine. If you’re reading ITN for the first time, here’s what it’s all about: travelers keeping other travelers informed.

Basically, once you’re a subscriber, you qualify to have your own travel reports printed in this magazine. Send in an appraisal of any airline, tour, car rental company, restaurant or shop that you’ve made use of recently. Or tell everyone about your latest destination discovery or a packing tip you’ve found useful. Or simply expound on travel, itself.

Keep in mind that...

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 455th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine, the one that invites its subscribers (including you) to share travel recommendations, tips and warnings from their experiences overseas. We’ll supplement those with additional researched material, columnists’ articles, relevant travel news and just plain fun.

Let’s start with the latest word on an online problem affecting travelers.

Those of you who rent vacation properties, be aware that unscrupulous computer hackers have been hoodwinking some renters using...