Global News 4/5/19 – House passes Violence Against Women Act, US revokes visa of ICC prosecutor over war crimes investigation, and Rwanda remembers its genocide 25 years later

“I know that fear, I know that terror and I just want to try to save another family from going through that terror,” said Representative Debbie Dingell, Democrat of Michigan. Credit Erin Schaff/The New York Times

End your week with Friday’s top news from around the world. In the face of NRA lobbying, House passes revamped Violence Against Women Act, the US revokes the visa of an ICC prosecutor who was investigating possible war crimes in Afghanistan, and Rwanda comes up on the 25th anniversary of its genocide. Read more below.

• House passes revamped Violence Against Women Act in face of NRA lobbying (NY Times)

• U.S. revokes ICC prosecutor's entry visa over Afghanistan investigation (Reuters)

• Rwanda remembers, quarter of a century after genocide (France24)

• What the job surge is masking (Axios)

• Islamic State says it killed 18 soldiers in west Africa (Reuters)

• Congress is done with the war in Yemen (Foreign Policy)

• Nigeria denies 80 diplomatic missions to shut (BBC)

• Trump backs off threat to close border, capping a week of retreats (LA Times)

• Seven dead in clash between Philippine troops, Abu Sayyaf militants (Straits Times)

• Romania gets international warning over legal changes (Politico)

• Saudi Arabia 'launches wave of arrests' over rights support (BBC)

• EU charges German carmakers with blocking emissions cleaning technology (Reuters)

• NATO turns 70 (Axios)

• Upcoming elections around the world (Axios)

• Algeria makes history. Now what? (Axios)

Global News 4/4/19 – How corporations write laws in your state's legislature, Guiadó stripped of immunity, and Syria kills at least 12 in bombardment

This Thursday, read an exposé from USA Today, The Arizona Republic, and the Center for Public Integrity on how corporations write many of the bills passed by state legislative bodies. Also, catch up on the latest in Venezuela’s political upheaval, the Syrian civil war, and more below.

• You elected them to write new laws. They’re letting corporations do it instead. (USA Today, The Arizona Republic, The Center for Public Integrity)

• Venezuela: Juan Guaidó stripped of parliamentary immunity (The Guardian)

• Syrian government forces shell rebel-held northwest, kill 12 (Reuters)

• Myanmar villagers, lawmaker say 'helicopter attack' kills five Rohingya, wounds 13 (Reuters)

• Brexit: MPs back delay bill by one vote (BBC)

• Libyan tensions rise as warlord Haftar closes in on Tripoli (Bloomberg)

• Nigeria to close most of its embassies (BBC)

• Eritrea angry at Turkey, Qatar and Sudan over ‘subversion’ of peace process (BBC)

• MIT terminates funding and research links with China's Huawei and ZTE (CNBC)

• New report asserts that a Russian businessman mentioned in the Panama Papers is helping Putin associates get around U.S. sanctions (Meduza)

• The snap decision society (Axios)

• Scientists thought they had measles cornered. They were wrong. (NY Times)

• The nuclear "dread" zone and climate (Axios)

• The climate case for rail vs. trucks (Axios)

• China has turned a city into a prison (NY Times)

Global News 4/2/19 – WhatsApp joins fight against misinformation in India, Erdogan challenges election results, and the EU denies funding Eritrean forced labor

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This Tuesday, read the top stories from around the world. WhatsApp takes new anti-disinformation measures as elections near, Erdogan fights back against his election losses by challenging Istanbul results, and the EU denies that it’s funding a project in Eritrea that uses forced labor. Read more below.

• WhatsApp adds tip line to fight misinformation in India (WSJ)

• Erdogan's AK Party challenges Istanbul local election results (Reuters)

• EU denies claim of funding Eritrea 'forced labor’ project (BBC)

• Congo Ebola outbreak spreading faster than ever: WHO (Reuters)

• China shuts down another big Beijing church (Christianity Today)

• Measles cases will "certainly" surpass 2018 due to lack of vaccinations (Axios)

• How Nipsey Hussle connected to his Eritrean roots (CNN)

• Liberal, conservative organizations unite against National Park Service proposal to charge protest fees (Washington Post)

• Merkel: Germany, like U.S., thinks Russia has violated nuclear arms treaty (Reuters)

• Israeli troops kill Palestinian man in West Bank clashes: health ministry (Reuters)

• Shell dumps K Street player (Axios)

• Americans' health care pessimism (Axios)

• Where rising premiums hurt the most (Axios)

• Netflix’s Our Planet says what other nature series have omitted (The Atlantic)

• Are Arabs and Iranians white? Census says yes, but many disagree (LA Times)

Global News 4/1/19 – Setback for Erdogan, Slovakia elects first female president, and White House threatens to shut border

Supporters of the opposition Republican People’s Party celebrating in Ankara, Turkey, on Sunday. Credit EPA, via Shutterstock

April started off with a bang, with Turkey’s main opposition party winning local elections in Turkey’s two most important cities, Slovakia electing its first female president, and the White House doubling down on threats to close the Mexican border if Mexico didn’t do more to curb migration to the US. Read more below.

• Turkey local elections: Setback for Erdogan in big cities (BBC)

• Zuzana Caputova becomes Slovakia's first female president (BBC)

• Trump aides repeat threat to shut down U.S.-Mexico border over migrant issue (Reuters)

• Leaked reports reveal severe abuse of Saudi political prisoners (The Guardian)

• Brexit could head in a new direction as lawmakers vote for alternative options (CNBC)

• Whistle-blower tells Congress of irregularities in White House security clearances (NY Times)

• Ukraine election: Comedian leads presidential contest (BBC)

• International aid helps Mozambique fight cholera in Beira (AP)

• Pope tells Moroccans “we are brothers and sisters” (AP)

• Venezuela's Maduro announces power rationing amid outages (ABC News)

• North Korea says Madrid embassy raid was 'grave terror attack’ (BBC)

• Afghan VP survives second assassination attempt (BBC)

• Arab leaders to seek U.N. Security Council resolution on Golan (Reuters)

• Gaza border protests: 190 killed and 28,000 injured in a year of bloodshed (The Guardian)

• Exxon faces investor pressure on climate (Axios)

Global News 3/29/19 – Working full-time and homeless, Syria detention camp faces reckoning with the wives and children of ISIS fighters, and Parliament rejects Brexit deal for third time

Monica Diaz came close to falling asleep while standing as she spoke to a lawyer who offered to help her pro bono with a complaint regarding city workers throwing away her belongings, including her identification cards. She had worked all night and not slept because of construction noise near her tent. Photo by Michael S. Williamson

This Friday, read an exposé of the state of homelessness in the US, how a Syrian detention camp is trying to deal with what to do over the wives and children of ISIS fighters, and the aftermath of a third failed Brexit vote. Read more stories like this every weekday here.

• She’s working full-time – and is still homeless (Washington Post)

• A Syria detention camp struggles to hold the women and children of ISIS (NY Times)

• Parliament rejects May’s Brexit plan for the third time as deadline nears (NY Times)

• In blow to Trump, judge blocks health care law ‘end run’ (NY Times)

• Facebook bans white nationalism two weeks after New Zealand attack (CNN)

• Human Rights Watch urges New Zealand’s Ardern to discuss Muslims in China (Washington Post)

• Mozambique confirms 138 cholera cases after cyclone strikes Beira (Reuters)

• Zimbabwe may have food shortages soon, after drought damage -official (Reuters)

• Maria Ressa, Rappler news boss, arrested in Philippines for 2nd time in 2 months (CBS News)

• Germany extends ban on arms sales to Saudi Arabia (DW)

• Facebook rolls out political ad rules ahead of EU vote (Politico)

• Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah released from jail after five years (BBC)

• They let a sick inmate die in a van. Now they won’t pay his family. (NY Times)

• New York will ban single-use plastic bags from retail stores, the second state to do so (NY Times)

• The pope issued a law requiring accusations of sexual abuse to be immediately reported to Vatican prosecutors. (NY Times)

• At least nine police officers were killed in a Taliban attack in an Afghan city, according to officials. (NY Times)