Brazilians stage rally against new cabinet line-up

Here is a round-up of global news developments:

• Brazilians have staged a rally in the capital Brasilia to protest against the cabinet line-up of the acting president. Mishel Temer named an all-male cabinet last week, eliminating a number of cabinet positions, including the Ministry of Women. The move was described as a step backwards in terms of gender equality.
• Lawmakers in Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly have rejected the state of emergency announced by President Nicolas Maduro. They accused Maduro of ignoring Venezuela’s constitution in issuing the decree. Last week, the president declared a 60-day state of emergency, saying the United States and quote-its actors in Venezuela are trying to subvert him.
• A terrorist, who was behind last year’s arson attack on a Palestinian family, is set to be released. An Israeli court has planned to free Meir Ettinger at the end of May. 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents were burned to death in the attack in the West Bank village of Duma.
• Israeli forces have detained several Palestinians including two senior Hamas officials in raids across the occupied West Bank. The arrests come a day after Palestinian lawmaker and Hamas official Abdel Jaber Foqaha was beaten violently at his home in Ramallah before being taken away by Israeli forces.
• Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has slammed Baghdad for mishandling the security threats posed by Daesh Takfiri terrorists. Sadr says the latest wave of bombings is the clearest evidence proving that Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s administration is incapable of providing Iraqis with security.
• Australia’s immigration minister Peter Dutton has come under fire for describing refugees as illiterate people who take Australian jobs. Labor frontbencher Chris Bowen has condemned Dutton, saying he owes an apology to all the refugees. Dutton’s remarks have also been described as xenophobic, vile, and nasty.
• US Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders has defeated Hillary Clinton in Oregon’s presidential primaries, but narrowly lost to her in Kentucky. 61 and 55 delegates are up for grabs in Oregon and Kentucky respectively. On the Republican side, Donald Trump won Oregon’s 28 delegate votes.
• The US Senate passes a bill that would allow the relatives of the 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia. The White House says it strongly opposes the legislation. Thousands of people died in the 2001 attacks in the US. Fifteen out of the nineteen terrorists involved in the attacks were Saudi nationals.

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