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 5/23/19 – Modi wins historic India election, British microchip-maker suspends all work with Huawei, Europe holds crucial vote

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India in New Delhi on Thursday. His success mirrors the rise of right-leaning populist figures around the world. Credit Money Sharma/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

This Thursday, Narendra Modi wins historic election; Trump Huawei ban fallout continues as ARM suspends all work with the company; Europe holds EU-wide vote, & far-right propaganda floods Facebook; China raises threat of rare-earths cutoff to US; and new Pentagon plan could send 10,000 US troops to Middle East.

• Narendra Modi, India’s ‘watchman,’ heads for historic election victory (NY Times)

• Huawei: ARM memo tells staff to stop working with China’s tech giant (BBC)

• Europe holds "most important" EU vote (Reuters)

  • More: Far-right propaganda floods Facebook ahead of EU elections (Wired)

• China raises threat of rare-earths cutoff to U.S. (Foreign Policy)

• US officials: Plan may send up to 10,000 troops to Mideast (Washington Post)

• Pompeo slams release of "American Taliban" as unconscionable (Reuters)

• How China uses high-tech military surveillance to subdue minorities (NY Times)

• US weather: Tornadoes kill at least seven people (BBC)

• Ozone layer: Banned CFCs traced to China, say scientists (BBC)

• Indonesian protesters disperse after second night of post-election unrest (Reuters)

• Brazil's president wins, justice minister loses in Congress (Reuters)

• The counterrevolution begins in Sudan (Foreign Policy)

• Libya crisis: UN warns battle for Tripoli is 'start of a bloody war’ (BBC)

• Mexico's refugee agency turns to U.N. amid asylum surge, funding cuts (Reuters)

• Google's Ad Exchange faces privacy probe by Irish regulator (BBC)

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 4/24/19 – 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 4/23/19 – 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)