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Netanyahu taps far-right minister for New York consul post

Washington Post Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nominated a minister known for inflammatory statements and for waging a grassroots campaign against African migrants for the post of consul general in New York https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/20/israel-us-consul-american-jews/1d6dc4fc-df76-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Search for missing American sailors is suspended, Coast Guard says

Fox News The U.S. Coast Guard says the search for three missing American sailors in waters off Mexico has been suspended after responders conducted an “exhaustive search” covering an area larger than the state of California. Kerry O’Brien, Frank O’Brien and William Gross, who set sail on their vessel Ocean Bound, were last heard from on April…

Judge orders Tunisian Islamist leader to stay in custody

Washington Post The party of influential Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi says a Tunisian investigative judge has ordered him held in custody following his arrest on Monday https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/20/tunisia-islamist-opposition-leader-detained/d91fa252-df6b-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

E.U. Weighs Temporary Restrictions on Ukrainian Grain

New York Times An E.U. proposal would pause Ukrainian grain exports to five countries that say their farmers are being hurt by a glut of cheap imports. Here is what we’re covering: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/04/20/world/russia-ukraine-news

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