Global News 5/3/19 – India's most powerful cyclone in decades, Venezuelan plot unravels, UN alarmed at conditions for migrants in Yemen

A cyclone relief shelter in Puri on Friday. Credit Dibyangshu Sarkar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

This Friday, Indians shelter from powerful Cyclone Fani, Venezuelan opposition left exposed after plot unravels, UN ‘alarmed’ over migrant conditions in Yemen, India seizes cash, booze, gold used to corrupt democracy, and Sudan army rejects civilian majority in ruling council.

• Cyclone Fani: Indians shelter from powerful storm (BBC)

• Venezuelan opposition left exposed after plot unravels (Axios)

• UN ‘alarmed’ over migrant conditions in Yemen (AP)

• India: Cash, booze, gold and democracy (Axios)

• Sudan army rejects civilian majority in ruling council (BBC)

• Benin troops in protest clampdown after contested vote (AFP)

• Myanmar troops kill six in Rakhine for suspected rebel links (Al Jazeera)

• Afghanistan's Loya Jirga calls for immediate cease-fire (RadioFreeEurope)

• German arrests as police attack dark web drugs market (BBC)

• Saudi Arabia temporarily releases four detained women's rights activists (Time) 

• Jared Kushner on 'two-state' solution: 'Let's just not say it’ (Al Jazeera)

• In Cuba, Carnival cruise ships have been using stolen ports, original owners say (NY Times)

• A $37 million temporary fix: U.S. builds 2 new migrant detention centers (NY Times)

• How a lone Norwegian trader shook the world’s financial system (NY Times)

• 'Low rains, a heatwave. Then floods': Bad harvest pushes North Korea to the brink (BBC)

Global News 4/17/19 – AG Barr withholds bail from asylum seekers, hundreds of Denver/Front Range schools close as FBI searches for Columbine-obsessed woman

Asylum seekers last week in Tijuana, Mexico, at the El Chaparral port of entry. Credit Guillermo Arias/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

This Wednesday, AG Barr denies bail to asylum seekers, hundreds of Denver schools close due to Columbine-obsessed woman, Trump vetoes bill to end US involvement in Yemen war, & Mulvaney destroys a consumer protection agency.

• In new effort to deter migrants, Barr withholds bail to asylum seekers (NY Times)

• Denver/Front Range schools close as FBI hunt 'Columbine-obsessed’ woman as 20th anniversary nears (NY Times)

• ‘When glaciers disappear, those species will go extinct’ (NY Times)

• Trump vetoes measure to force end to U.S. involvement in Yemen war (NY Times)

• Mick Mulvaney’s master class in destroying a bureaucracy from within (NY Times)

• Trump to increase pressure on Cuba by lifting lawsuit limits (NY Times)

• Indonesia's 'everyman' leader on track to beat firebrand ex-general (AFP)

• Venezuelans receive first Red Cross aid amid crisis (BBC)

• UN: Crisis prompted 60,000 Nicaraguans to flee in past year (VOA) 

• At least 32 people killed as severe weather slams India (Al Jazeera) 

• Israel is deporting a human rights activist over his BDS support (Vox)

• Iran parliament brands US troops in Middle East as terrorist (The Guardian)

• Sadaf Khadem: Iranian female boxer halts return over arrest fears (BBC)

• Gun research is suddenly hot (NY Times)

• EU law fixes minimum rights for 'gig economy’ workers (BBC)

Global News 4/15/19 – How China uses AI to profile Uighurs, Sudanese military promises civilian cabinet, and measles outbreak in Madagascar kills 1,200

Shoppers lined up for identification checks outside the Kashgar Bazaar last fall. Members of the largely Muslim Uighur minority have been under Chinese surveillance and persecution for years. Credit Paul Mozur

This Monday, an NY Times exposé of China’s surveillance of its Uighur population, the Sudanese military vows to install a civilian Cabinet in face of protests, and 1,200 killed, thousands more infected by measles in Madagascar. Read more below.

• One month, 500,000 face scans: How China is using A.I. to profile a minority (NY Times)

• New ruling Sudan military council promises civilian Cabinet (AP)

• Measles outbreak kills more than 1,200 in Madagascar (AP)

• New fears of hot war between Russia and the US (AP)

• The Death of an Adjunct (The Atlantic)

• UK under-18s face 'like' and 'streaks' bans on social media (BBC)

• Finland's Social Democrats win slim victory as far right surges (AFP)

• Five years after Boko Haram kidnap, 112 Chibok girls still missing (AFP)

• Dispute with U.S. energy trader worsens Haiti's fuel crisis (Reuters)

• China takes Australia's Huawei 5G ban to WTO (Sydney Morning Herald)

• Jack Ma of Alibaba again endorses extreme overtime as furor rages on (Bloomberg)

• Gene-edited babies: What a Chinese scientist told an American mentor (NY Times)

• You’re a widow. Now what? (NY Times)

• Fukushima: Japan begins removal of nuclear fuel from reactor site (BBC)

• In Matteo Salvini’s Italy, good Is bad and ‘do-gooders’ are the worst (NY Times)

Global News 4/9/19 – 7 killed during Sudan protests, Libya conflict intensifies, and China deflects criticism of Muslim camps

Protesters rally near the military headquarters, Tuesday, April 9, 2019, in the capital Khartoum, Sudan. Activists behind anti-government protests in Sudan say security forces have killed at least seven people, including a military officer, in another attempt to break up the sit-in outside the military headquarters in Khartoum. A spokeswoman for the Sudanese Professionals Association, said clashes erupted again early Tuesday between security forces and protesters who have been camping out in front of the complex in Khartoum since Saturday. (AP Photo)

This Tuesday, read today’s biggest news stories from the US and around the world, including new developments in Sudan, a growing intensity in Libya’s fighting, and an exposé of how China is defecting pressure over its internment of Uighur Muslims.

• Seven people killed over two days during protests in Sudan - interior minister (Reuters)

• Suffering grows from Libya conflict, jihadists exploit vacuum (Reuters)

• With pressure and persuasion, China deflects criticism of its camps for Muslims (NY Times)

• ‘They didn’t burn down our spirit’: Louisiana black churches defiant amid fires (NY Times)

• Trump's hardline new border plan (Axios) 

• Battle rages for Libya's capital, airport bombed (Reuters)

• Trump administration blocks baseball players from Cuba (WSJ)

• Brazil military shoots 80 bullets into vehicle of family driving to baby shower, 1 killed (The Straits Times)

• Hong Kong 'Umbrella' protesters found guilty of public nuisance (BBC)

• Facebook bends to EU pressure on ‘misleading’ fine print (WSJ)

• 2 arrested in vandalism of slave memorial at University of North Carolina (NY Times)

• How climate affects urbanization trends (Axios)

• Senators target the ways tech tricks us (Axios)

• All eyes are on the drug pricing middlemen (Axios)

• A global push for AI ethics (Axios)