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 4/3/19 – 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 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)