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EU lawmakers greenlight migration plan, set clock ticking

Washington Post European Union lawmakers have approved a series of proposals aimed at ending the years-long standoff over how best to manage migration https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/20/european-union-migration-proposals/c5fb6f96-df69-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Flocking to One of the Few Specks of Land in Sight of a Total Eclipse

New York Times Tens of thousands descended on a tiny town in Western Australia, hundreds of miles from any city, to view a celestial spectacle. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/world/australia/solar-eclipse.html

Singapore to resume executions after 6-month break

Washington Post A Singaporean man is scheduled to be hanged next week for abetting an attempt to smuggle cannabis into the island-state https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/20/singapore-death-penalty-drug-execution/b45cdd76-df67-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Democrats’ Numbers Problem

New York Times We look at the costs of Dianne Feinstein’s absence to the Democratic Party’s agenda. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/briefing/dianne-feinstein.html

Families stream out of Sudan’s capital amid apocalyptic scenes of fighting

Washington Post A humanitarian crisis is looming as people flee the fighting, but aid groups are also paralyzed by the urban warfare. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/20/sudan-rsf-war-humanitarian-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Sudan’s truce falters, as Egypt repatriates army personnel

Washington Post Egypt has repatriated dozens of technicians in its air force who had been held by one of the warring factions in Sudan https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/20/sudan-fighting-ceasefire-trapped-civilians-evacuations-foreigners/b68390dc-df61-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Greece: 1 migrant dead, 47 rescued after sailboat hits rocks

Washington Post Authorities in southern Greece say one migrant has died and 47 others have been rescued after a sailboat crashed into rocks and partially sank in a remote coastal area of the Greek mainland https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/20/greece-turkey-migrants-migration-rescue/dcc5ca6a-df5e-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Biden to Pledge $500 Million to Stop Deforestation in Brazil

New York Times The promise to help Brazil protect the Amazon must be approved by Congress, where Republicans are opposed to foreign climate aid. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/climate/biden-amazon-deforestation-climate.html

AP image of Mariupol hospital attack wins World Press Photo

Washington Post Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka has won the World Press Photo of The Year for his harrowing image of emergency workers carrying a pregnant woman through the shattered grounds of a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in the chaotic aftermath of a Russian attack https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/20/photo-ukraine-ap-mariupol-award-maloletka/b2b0adaa-df57-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Danes, Dutch to donate Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine

Washington Post Denmark and the Netherlands plan to provide Ukraine with at least 14 refurbished Leopard 2 battle tanks to be supplied from early 2024 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/20/denmark-netherlands-ukraine-tanks/b17630e6-df56-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world