Global News 4/8/19 – Trump names Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard a terror group, Libya fighting threatens refugees, and Nielsen exits DHS

Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Tehran this year. President Trump said the designation “will significantly expand the scope and scale of our maximum pressure on the Iranian regime.” Credit Vahid Salemi/Associated Press

Start off your week by catching up on the weekend’s top headlines from Iran, Libya, the Department of Homeland Security, and more. Read on below.

• Trump designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a foreign terrorist group (NY Times)

• Libya: Detained refugees 'terrified' as clashes near Tripoli rage (Al Jazeera)

• Kirstjen Nielsen leaving Homeland Security post as border crossings surge (NPR)

• U.S. says it could take 2 years to identify up to thousands of separated immigrant families (NY Times)

• ‘Just fall, that’s all’: Sudan protests seeking Al-Bashir ouster gain ground (NY Times)

• False promises: Foreign workers are falling prey to a sprawling web of labour trafficking in Canada (The Globe and Mail)

• Saudi Arabia 'arrests seven including US citizens’ (BBC)

• Thailand election: Future Forward's Thanathorn faces sedition charges (BBC)

• Revealed: five Australian children trapped in China amid Uighur crackdown (The Guardian)

• EU official urges Turkey’s Erdoğan to respect election results (Politico)

• China wants to work with EU on trade, premier writes before summit (Reuters)

• U.K. unveils sweeping plan to rein in Big Tech (Axios)

• Employers' health care crisis will only get worse (Axios)

• In San Francisco, making a living from your billionaire neighbor’s trash (NY Times)

• Hunger and an ‘abandoned’ hospital: Puerto Rico waits as Washington bickers (NY Times)

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 4/3/19 – Algeria's president Bouteflika resigns after 20 years, new Brexit strategy for May, and Venezuela parliament looks to remove immunity for Guiadó

Algeria’s president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in 2015. Long ill, Mr. Bouteflika announced on Tuesday that he had resigned. Credit Thomas Trutschel/Photothek, via Getty Images

This Wednesday, Algeria’s president resigned after weekslong protests roiled the country, PM May began working with her main opponent, Jeremy Corbyn, on Brexit solutions, and Venezuela’s parliament considered removing parlaimentary immunity from Guiadó. Read more below.

• Algeria's president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns after 20 years (The Guardian)

• Brexit gamble: May to meet opposition leader to seek a deal (Reuters)

• Venezuela lawmakers loyal to Maduro open door to prosecution of Guaidó (Reuters)

• Long Read: How Rupert Murdoch’s empire of influence remade the world (NY Times Magazine)

  • 6 takeaways from the investigation

• Shifting climate battle over Big Oil (Axios)

• Sky-high valuations inspire housing-crisis flashbacks (Axios)

• Thousands of Venezuelans break barricades, cross Colombia border (Reuters) 

• Malaysia's former PM Najib in the dock for three hours as 1MDB graft trial begins (Reuters)

• Philippine journalist and Duterte critic Maria Ressa pleads not guilty in tax case (Straits Times)

• Pierre Moscovici says risk of a no-deal Brexit on April 12th is increasing (Irish Times)

• Aiming higher on African electricity access (Axios)

• Egypt’s soap opera clampdown extends el-Sisi’s iron grip to TV (NY Times)

• 1 big thing: The threat of AI voice impersonators (Axios)

Global News 3/27/19 – EU extends Operation Sophia, top Algeria party backs Bouteflika exit, Saudi airstrike hits Yemen hospital

Federico Scoppa/AFP via Getty Images

This Wednesday, the EU decided to continue Operation Sophia, its anti-smuggling mission; a top Algerian political party backed the military in saying President Bouteflika should resign, and a Saudi airstrike hit a Yemeni hospital. Read these stories and more below.

• EU diplomats tentatively agree to extend Operation Sophia (Politico)

• Algerian party, top union join army in seeking Bouteflika exit (Reuters)

• Secretive group seeking to oust Kim Jong-un claim North Korea embassy raid (The Guardian)

• Tusk urges European Parliament to stay open to long Brexit delay (Politico)

• Saudi airstrike said to hit Yemeni hospital as war enters year 5 (NY Times)

• Calm appears to hold in Gaza despite exchange of fire (AP)

• New York county declares measles outbreak emergency (BBC)

• Road safety: UK, Europe set to adopt vehicle speed limiters (BBC)

• Article 13: Memes exempt as EU backs controversial copyright law (BBC)

• The squeeze of monopolistic platforms (Axios)

• A potential domestic catastrophe as flooding degrades wells in Midwest (Axios)

• Nicaraguan clergy face threats after providing refuge for protesters fleeing gunfire: ‘The church became a type of morgue’ (LA Times)

• IBM accused of violating federal anti-age discrimination law (ProPublica)

• El Salvador considers amnesty for those accused of crimes during its civil war (ProPublica)

• After Boeing crashes, sharp questions about the industry regulating itself (NY Times)