Global News 5/20/19 – Google restricts Android use for Huawei, Trump ratchets up Iran tensions, exit polls suggest Modi reelected as India PM

A Huawei product presentation in Paris in March. While the Chinese company’s products have effectively been blocked in the United States, its business has grown rapidly in Africa, Asia and Europe. Credit Eric Piermont/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

• Huawei's use of Android restricted by Google (NY Times)

• US president says war would be 'end' of Iran as tensions rise (BBC)

• India election 2019: Exit polls suggest Narendra Modi back as PM (BBC)

• Sudan’s military council resumes talks with protesters (AP)

• Austrian government collapses over Russia scandal (Politico)

  • More: European mainstream politicians see hope in downfall of Austrian far right leader (Reuters) 

• As thousands of taxi drivers were trapped in loans, top officials counted the money (NY Times)

• UN tells Italy proposed decree violates migrants’ rights (AP)

• Volodymyr Zelensky: Comedian-president calls snap election (BBC)

• US prosecutors to 'help themselves' to Julian Assange's possessions (The Guardian)

• Malawi's president makes final plea for re-election in tight race (Reuters)

• France's Macron to meet Libya's eastern commander Haftar next week (Reuters)

• What you need to know about the 2019 European Parliament elections (Bloomberg)

  • More: European elections will gauge the power of populism (NY Times)

  • More: Pro-EU rallies draw tens of thousands before elections (AP)

• Britain is making sexual harassment a hate crime (Foreign Policy)

• Argentine political fixer emerges from shadows to mount surprise presidential bid (Reuters)

• Guatemala’s anti-corruption fight inspired Latin America. It may be shut down. (NY Times)

• E.P.A. could get thousands of deaths off the books by changing its math (NY Times)

Global News 4/25/19 – Kim Jong-Un meets Putin, three Sudanese generals agree to quit, and Mozambique cyclone survivors forced into trading sex for food

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un posing for a photo prior to their talks in Vladivostok, Russia, Thursday, April 25, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un say they have had fruitful talks about how to defuse a standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear program. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

This Thursday, Kim Jong-un meets Putin in Russia, three top Sudanese generals agree to quit as protests continue, Mozambique cyclone victims forced to trade sex for food, tropical tree losses persist at high levels, and Brazil’s indigenous people "fight for the right to exist."

• Kim Jong-un meets Putin in Russia with U.S. talks faltering (NY Times)

• Sudan crisis: Three top generals agree to quit as protests continue (BBC)

• Mozambique: Cyclone victims forced to trade sex for food (Human Rights Watch)

• Deforestation: Tropical tree losses persist at high levels (BBC)

• Brazil's indigenous people: 'We fight for the right to exist’ (BBC)

• Belt and Road forum: China's 'project of the century' hits tough times (The Guardian)

• How the U.S. miscounted the dead in Syria (Foreign Policy)

• Saudi sisters tell Google and Apple to pull 'inhuman' women app (Al Jazeera)

• Across 27 countries, most don’t mind more religion in society (Christianity Today)

• Over 20 million children a year miss out on first dose of measles vaccine (NY Times)

• Texas executes white supremacist in dragging death (NY Times)

• Health: 1 big thing: Everything's deadlier in the South (Axios)

• WHO: Get kids away from the screens (Axios)

• Addiction recovery as free labor (Axios)

• The sound of justice: The original records of Nazi atrocities are at risk of being lost — but it’s not too late to save them (The Verge)

Global News 4/24/19 – Navy SEALs warned against reporting war crimes, Trump signs law punishing websites for sex trafficking, & Mexico detains Central American migrants

Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher during a deployment in Iraq in 2017, in a photo provided by his lawyer. (NY Times)

This Wednesday, Navy SEALS were warned against reporting their chief for war crimes, Trump signs law to punish websites for sex trafficking, Mexico begins detaining Central American migrants in caravans, industrial-scale snooping, exported to the world, and more news out of Sri Lanka. 

• Navy SEALS were warned against reporting their chief for war crimes (NY Times)

• Trump signs law to punish websites for sex trafficking (Reuters)

• Mexico begins detaining Central American migrants in caravans (WSJ) 

• Industrial-scale snooping, exported to the world (NY Times)

• New headlines out of Sri Lanka:

  • Sri Lanka calls bombers ‘well educated’ and warns of ongoing threat (NY Times)

  • Death toll in Sri Lankan bombings rises to 359, police arrest another 18 suspects (Straits Times)

  • Sri Lanka explosions: Top officials deliberately withheld intelligence on attacks, Parliament told (Straits Times)

• UK cyber boss downplays threat of Five Eyes security rift over Huawei (Reuters)

• Drones to deliver vaccines, blood and drugs across Ghana (Reuters) 

• More than 50 dead in South Africa after heavy rains (Reuters)

• Algerian military's patience wearing thin with daily protests (Bloomberg) 

• Russia, U.S., China aim to cajole Taliban into inter-Afghan talks (Reuters)

• Twitter unveils new tool against EU elections meddlers (Reuters)

• At least 17 killed in blast in Syria's rebel-held Jisr al Shughour: rescue workers (Reuters)

• Three days of festivities end with Egypt saying Yes to more Sisi (Bloomberg)

• California tried to fix its prisons. Now county jails are more deadly. (ProPublica)

• The biggest nations' climate culpability (Axios)

Global News 4/16/19 – Zuckerberg used Facebook user data to help his friends, volunteer observers fight election fraud in Indonesia, Notre-Dame structurally sound after fire

Leaked internal Facebook documents show that the plans to sell access to user data were discussed for years and received support from Facebook’s most senior executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. Doug Chayka for NBC News / Getty Images

This Tuesday, Zuckerberg used Facebook user data to gain advantage for friends, Indonesia holds elections, Notre-Dame found structurally sound, millions of Americans lose healthcare every year, and the AU gives Sudan ultimatum.

• Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show (NBC News)

• Thwarting fraud: thousands to 'crowd-source' Indonesian election results (Reuters)

• Notre-Dame found structurally sound after fire, as investigation begins (NY Times)

• Millions already lose or change health plans every year (Axios)

• African Union gives Sudan's military rulers ultimatum (BBC)

• Russian court jails Norwegian for 14 years for espionage (Reuters)

• Equatorial Guinea 'promises to scrap death penalty’ (BBC)

• Pentagon developing military options to deter Russian, Chinese influence in Venezuela (CNN)

• Taiwan president says Chinese drills a threat but not intimidated (Reuters)

• India's Supreme Court considers call to open mosques to women (Reuters)

• Egypt's parliament to vote on extending Sisi's rule (Al Jazeera)

• DHS may classify fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction (Axios)

• Many people are too broke for bankruptcy. A new report suggests some fixes. (ProPublica)

• Aung San Suu Kyi has a new target: political satire (NY Times)

• In African villages, these phones become ultrasound scanners (NY Times)

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)