Global News 4/22/19 – 🌎 Earth Day 🌍 – Sri Lanka Easter bombings death toll rises to 290, CIA offers proof of Huawei connections to Chinese military, and the new push against Iranian oil exports

Relatives unloading the coffin on Monday of Sneha Savindi, 11, who was killed in a suicide bombing at St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo. Credit Adam Dean for The New York Times

This Earth Day, more information about Sri Lanka’s terror attacks on Christians and foreigners, the CIA gives proof of Huawei’s connections to Chinese military, and the US makes new push against Iranian oil exports.

• Sri Lanka: Terrorist group is identified, and death toll rises (NY Times)

• Religious minorities across Asia suffer amid surge in sectarian politics (NY Times)

• CIA offers proof Huawei has been funded by China's military and intelligence (Forbes)

• The new push against Iranian oil exports (Axios)

• Two arresting Earth Day facts (Axios)

• Silicon Valley came to Kansas schools. That started a rebellion. (NY Times)

• Ukraine election: Comedian Zelensky wins presidency by landslide (BBC)

• Sudanese protesters suspend talks with military (AP)

• US arrests 'member of border militia' in New Mexico (BBC) 

• Frustration grows among migrants in Mexico as support fades (AP)

• Climate protesters march in London again; arrests hit 710 (AP)

• Syria war: IS 'kills 35' government troops in desert attacks (BBC)

• The giants at the heart of the opioid crisis (NY Times)

• Supreme Court to decide whether bias law covers gay and transgender workers (NY Times)

• Strong earthquake strikes Philippines, killing at least 5 (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)

Global News 3/21/19 – New Zealand to ban assault weapons, food desperately needed in Zimbabwe, and China tells Christianity to be more Chinese

A community-led vigil in tribute to victims near Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Wednesday. CreditAdam Dean for The New York Times

This Thursday, check out the top news stories from around the world. New Zealand is banning assault weapons, 200,000 people are in desperate need of food in Zimbabwe, China reins in Christianity, and more.

• Christchurch shootings: New Zealand to ban military style weapons (BBC)

• Cyclone puts 200,000 Zimbabweans in need of urgent food aid: U.N. (US News & World Report)

• China tells Christianity to be more Chinese (Christianity Today)

• Parsing the oil and climate ruling (Axios)

• The trouble with smart cities (Axios)

• Michel Temer: Brazil ex-president arrested in Rio (BBC)

• Nicaragua agrees to free all opposition prisoners (BBC)

• Venezuela's Guaido says intelligence agents detained his chief of staff (Reuters)

• Delhi Crime: Netflix drama takes on gang rape that shocked India (The Guardian)

• Dutch far-right populist wins provincial elections after Utrecht attack (Reuters)

• Two Palestinians killed in clashes in Nablus (BBC)

• Hamas violently suppresses Gaza economic protests (The Guardian)

• The next drug pricing push in the states (Axios)

• Florida Republicans push to make ex-felons pay fees before they can vote (NY Times)

• 1,600 motel guests were secretly streamed live in South Korea, police say (NY Times)