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)

Global News 4/30/19 – Asylum seekers face new restraints, ISIS leader is back, and Guidó calls for Maduro's overthrow

Customs and Border Protection agents with migrants hoping to apply for asylum at the border between Mexico and the United States. Credit Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters

This Tuesday, asylum seekers face new restraints under latest Trump orders, ISIS leader Baghdadi is back, Venezuela's Guaidó pledges end of Maduro era in militaristic video, Sudan military and protesters fail to reach deal and world military expenditure grows to $1.8 trillion in 2018.

• Asylum seekers face new restraints under latest Trump orders (NY Times)

• ISIS leader Baghdadi is back (Axios)

• Venezuela: Guaidó pledges end of Maduro era in militaristic video (The Guardian)

• Sudan military and protesters fail to reach deal (BBC)

• World military expenditure grows to $1.8 trillion in 2018 (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)

• France harassment law hands out 447 fines in first months (BBC)

• 'Our water pollution is a cancer’ – Iraqi “waterkeeper” (BBC)

• Emperor Akihito: Japanese monarch declares historic abdication (BBC)

• Former U.S. diplomats lobby to stop South Sudan war crimes court (Foreign Policy)

• 'More than 90 Ebola cases in four days' in DR Congo (BBC)

• Blackwater founder’s latest sales pitch - mercenaries for Venezuela (Reuters)

• Trump pushes to designate Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group (NY Times)

• Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, said that he would leave the Justice Department on May 11. (NY Times)

• Workers sending $700 billion back home (Axios)

• Data du jour: How's democracy working for you? (Axios)

Global News 4/29/19 – Socialists win Spain election, Sudan military & opposition agree on joint council, Algeria top general target of protests

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain delivering a speech at an election night rally in Madrid on Sunday. His party claimed victory after winning 123 of the 350 seats in Parliament. Credit Javier Soriano/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

This Monday, Socialists win Spain election amid far-right breakthrough, Sudan’s military and opposition agree on joint council after Bashir ousting, Algeria’s army chief a top target in 10th week of protests, synagogue shooting keeps religious leaders on edge: ‘No one should be gunned down in worship,’ and Iran says leaving nuclear treaty one of many options after U.S. sanctions move.

• Spain election: Socialists win amid far-right breakthrough (BBC)

• Sudan's military and opposition agree on joint council after Bashir ousting (The Guardian)

• Algeria’s army chief a top target in 10th week of protests (AP)

• Synagogue shooting keeps religious leaders on edge: ‘No one should be gunned down in worship’ (NY Times)

• Iran says leaving nuclear treaty one of many options after U.S. sanctions move (Reuters)

• Venezuelan government denounces regional OAS forum (AP)

• Pope donates $500,000 for migrants stranded in Mexico (BBC)

• Indonesia election: More than 270 election staff die counting votes (BBC)

• Xi: China wants to expand sprawling infrastructure project (AP)

• Saudi fugitives accused of serious crimes get help to flee while U.S. officials look the other way (ProPublica)

• TurboTax deliberately hide its free file page from search engines (ProPublica)

• Syrian refugees toil on Turkey’s hazelnut farms with little to show for it (NY Times)

• “No one feels safe here”: Life in Alabama’s prisons (NY Times)

• Pakistan’s war on polio falters amid attacks on health workers and mistrust (NY Times)

• Partisan bickering over Puerto Rico aid strands farmers devastated by extreme weather (NY Times)

• 1 big thing: Youthful minorities will drive elections (Axios)

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 4/23/19 – Why did Sri Lanka not stop Sunday's attacks? Climate change has made the global wealth gap worse. New malaria vaccine to be tested.

Surveying the damage at St. Sebastians Church in Negombo on Monday. Credit Adam Dean for The New York Times

This Tuesday, we found out that Sri Lanka was warned of attacks. Why didn’t it stop them? The global wealth gap would be smaller today without climate change. A new child malaria vaccine will be tested in Malawi. The Supreme Court will decide if the US Census can ask about citizenship. Read more below.

• Sri Lanka was warned of possible attacks. Why didn’t it stop them? (NY Times)

• Global wealth gap would be smaller today without climate change, study finds (NY Times)

• Innovative child malaria vaccine to be tested in Malawi (BBC)

• Can the census ask if you’re a citizen? The Supreme Court will decide. (NY Times)

• Five Algerian billionaires arrested in anti-graft investigation (Reuters)

• ISIS claims responsibility for Sri Lanka bombings (NY Times)

• Nigerian 'children killed' after car hits Easter parade in Gombe (BBC)

• Six Philippine troops killed in Communist rebel ambush on Samar island (South China Morning Post)

• More than 50 feared killed in landslide at Myanmar jade mine (South China Morning Post)

• 57-year-old woman arrested over Northern Ireland Journalist Lyra McKee's death (CNN)

• Bahrain's king reinstates citizenship of 551 tried in courts (BBC)

• A Texas couple who enslaved a West African girl for 16 years were sentenced to prison. (NY Times)

• Myanmar’s highest court upholds conviction of Reuters journalists (NY Times)

• ICE faces migrant detention crunch as border chaos spills into interior of the country (NY Times)