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Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 506th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine.

Following is a testimonial that an ITN subscriber, Thomas Selgas of San Diego, California, wrote to his travel insurance broker, Dan Drennen, relating to an experience that he and his wife, Anne, had with their post-departure policy.

Thomas wrote, “I should tell you that the insurance that we had for our trip to Cyprus was great.

The British Commonwealth of Nations is an association of 52 sovereign states, formerly British colonies.

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I’ve gathered these new items for your 2018 travel planning.

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Dear Globetrotter:

In 1991, South Africa became the first country to make the great white shark a protected species.

Denmark, with about 131 Danes per square mile, is Scandinavia’s most densely populated country, but if you include its territories of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, it is the world’s most sparsely populated country, with an average of 0.15 people per square mile. Otherwise, Mongolia is the most sparsely populated, with four people per square mile.

Smartphones have a number of functions that travelers find most useful, and I began describing a few of them last month, including the camera, the Geotagging feature and Google Maps. I’ve been referencing the iPhone 6’s functionality, since that’s what I use, but Android phones are similarly capable, if not more so.