Global News 5/28/19 – The aftermath of tense EU-wide election, 55 dead after Brazil prison gang fights, and extremist attacks on Afghan schools triple

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s interior minister and leader of the anti-migrant League Party, in Milan, Italy, on Monday. Credit Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters

Welcome to this Tuesday’s edition of Global News. Today, EU leaders meet to negotiate top leadership, 55 dead after prison violence in Brazil, extremist attacks on Afghan schools triple, Google’s shadow workforce profiled, and the Trump administration steps up attacks on climate science.

• Divided pro-EU leaders open talks after tense election (Reuters)

  • More: Green parties’ gains could boost climate action in Europe (AP)

• Prison fighting leaves at least 55 dead in northern Brazil (NY Times)

• Attacks by extremists on Afghan schools triple, report says (NY Times)

• Google’s shadow work force: Temps who outnumber full-time employees (NY Times)

• Trump administration hardens its attack on climate science (NY Times)

• Israel moves towards new vote as Netanyahu struggles to form government (Reuters)

• Kawasaki stabbing rampage leaves three dead, including schoolgirl and suspect; 17 injured (The Japan Times)

• Facebook says Zuckerberg and Sandberg will defy Canadian subpoena, risking contempt vote (CNN)

• Colombia army’s new kill orders send chills down ranks (NY Times)

• Petition calling for impeachment of South Korea's Moon to force a response (Reuters)

• Paramilitaries are surging again in Northern Ireland (Foreign Policy)

• Afghanistan’s air is deadlier than its war (Foreign Policy)

• Pulling back the curtain on health care prices (Axios)

• First look: The Pentagon Papers of the Iraq war (Axios)

• Millennials ‘make farming sexy’ in Africa, where tilling the soil once meant shame (NY Times)

Global News 5/24/19 – Theresa May out as UK Prime Minister, Trump empowers AG's spying probe, Modi faces challenges as he starts new term as India PM

Mr. Modi campaigning in Vadodara, Gujarat, in 2014, the first time he ran for prime minister. Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times

This Friday, embattled UK PM Theresa May steps down after multiple Brexit failures; Trump empower AG Barr in surveillance investigation; Modi faces continued challenges with unemployment, Pakistan as he begins new historic term; Colorado becomes first state to cap price of insulin for consumers; and economic opportunity in US is now tied to geography more than ever.

• Theresa May quits: UK set for new PM by end of July (BBC)

• Trump orders new powers for Attorney General's surveillance probe (BBC)

• Modi will need to hit the ground running with economy, Pakistan (Reuters)

• Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin (Denver Post)

• Economic opportunity is tied to location more than ever before, according to a county-by-county report from the nonprofit Economic Innovation Group (Axios)

• Kenya’s high court upholds ban on gay sex (NY Times)

• What your hospital knows about you (Axios)

• Trump doubts U.S. needs to send more troops to Middle East (Reuters)

  • More: Iran says it will not surrender even if it is bombed (Reuters)

• U.S. charges WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with espionage (Reuters)

• U.N. creates new Ebola chief role to tackle security, political issues in Congo (Reuters)

• Ugandan capital Kampala bans street children donations (BBC)

• Trump administration proposes rollback of transgender protections (NY Times)

• It’s never been easier to be a C.E.O., and the pay keeps rising (NY Times)

• Storms, flooding and more pain for Missouri and Oklahoma (NY Times)

• How climate change may affect the plants in your yard (NY Times)