By MARTIN SELSOE SORENSEN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2GGIk9X
via IFTTT As a challenge to the country’s collective memory, two artists unveiled what they called Denmark’s first public monument to a black woman.

By YONETTE JOSEPH from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Gmc9gT
via IFTTT From Italy to South Africa to India to Israel, the faithful held solemn ceremonies, re-enacted Christ’s suffering and prayed for loved ones before Easter Sunday.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2GIrzeM
via IFTTT Hundreds of people lining the streets broke into applause as the hearse carrying the remains of Dr. Hawking, the famed scientist, arrived at a church in Cambridge, Britain, for his funeral service.

By ANDREW HIGGINS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2GJqOlC
via IFTTT A Kremlin-funded tour by a biker gang known as “Putin’s Angels,” agents of meddling and mayhem, stoked fears about what Russia is up to in Bosnia.

By CEYLAN YEGINSU from NYT World https://ift.tt/2GWOGzI
via IFTTT With Britain’s most prestigious literary award increasingly dominated by Americans, a push to return to old rules excluding them has gained strength.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2GY7yOO
via IFTTT El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey, who are being detained in Syria, denounced a reported decision by Britain to strip them of citizenship.

By SEWELL CHAN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2pS1SPh
via IFTTT The American Civil Liberties Union condemned the Trump administration’s plan, saying it risked chilling freedom of speech and association.

By ANDREW HIGGINS and STEVEN ERLANGER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2uuBH5G
via IFTTT After expulsions of diplomats from 23 countries were announced, high-level discussions will go on. But life will be harder for Westerners in Russia.

By CHOE SANG-HUN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2GWYk5A
via IFTTT By tying a trade deal with South Korea to progress in denuclearizing Pyongyang, President Trump is pressuring an ally hoping it will help him deal with a reclusive foe.

By Text by ILIANA MAGRA from NYT World https://ift.tt/2pUqAxk
via IFTTT Two years after the E.U. and Turkey struck a deal to cut off asylum seekers crossing the Aegean, thousands languish in deplorable conditions on Lesbos.

By ISABEL KERSHNER and IYAD ABUHEWEILA from NYT World https://ift.tt/2pQmB5R
via IFTTT What was promoted as a six-week campaign of peaceful protests, with thousands of Palestinians in tent cities, turned quickly into deadly violence.

By CHOE SANG-HUN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2E2r8GE
via IFTTT Kim Jong-un and South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, will hold talks on April 27 at the so-called truce village of Panmunjom, officials said.

By DAMIEN CAVE and RICK GLADSTONE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Ie5MZo
via IFTTT A cheating scandal over a plot by Australia’s team captain has seized the cricket world and turned into a national embarrassment.

By ANA VANESSA HERRERO and NICHOLAS CASEY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2GTM45N
via IFTTT With at least 68 dead, the inferno in Valencia was one of the worst in the country’s modern history.

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA from NYT World https://ift.tt/2GTSdin
via IFTTT The move was in retaliation for the expulsion of diplomats by Britain, the United States and their allies. The U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg will be closed.

By SALMAN MASOOD from NYT World https://ift.tt/2pMwe5o
via IFTTT Ms. Yousafzai, a Nobel laureate studying at Oxford, met with the prime minister and will visit a school she helped build near her native Swat Valley.

By ELLEN BARRY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2pMLnUn
via IFTTT After the spy and his daughter were found unconscious, investigators looked at how they could have been poisoned.

By ANA VANESSA HERRERO from NYT World https://ift.tt/2E6TAHC
via IFTTT The announcement came after crowds of relatives gathered outside the facility, some weeping and others facing off with police officers in riot gear.

By JANE PERLEZ from NYT World https://ift.tt/2IYTNQA
via IFTTT The North Korean leader’s first diplomatic trip since taking power was a reminder of how much he has set the agenda over his nation’s nuclear arsenal.

By ISABEL KERSHNER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2GjD7l0
via IFTTT Air India became the first commercial airline permitted to fly over Saudi Arabia en route to and from Israel. Claiming discrimination, El Al is suing.

By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ from NYT World https://ift.tt/2I9wWAv
via IFTTT The meeting in Beijing between President Xi Jinping of China and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un provided propaganda opportunities on both sides.

By ELLEN BARRY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Gi9lgL
via IFTTT A pink-haired whistle-blower, who testified to Parliament on the dangers of data-mining, has become a matinee idol in some technology quarters.

By K.K. REBECCA LAI, WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Ge4ltf
via IFTTT As President Trump plans to meet Kim Jong-un, satellite evidence suggests that North Korea is expanding the complex that makes fuel for its nuclear weapons.

By MELISSA EDDY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2pHeybw
via IFTTT Germany is the only country in Europe that forbids doctors to publicly advertise that they perform abortions. Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged change, but her conservatives are balking.

By RUSSELL GOLDMAN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2GwO461
via IFTTT In earlier incarnations, the North Korean leader’s train has featured sumptuous feasts, cases of fine French wines and female entertainers known as lady conductors.

By AUSTIN RAMZY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2GvB5S8
via IFTTT With little available land and housing prices soaring ever higher, Hong Kong is considering some audacious ways to house residents.

By STEVEN ERLANGER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2GcCZYs
via IFTTT Faced with new aggressiveness from the newly re-elected Putin, the E.U. backed Britain on the Skripal poisoning and sent a strong message to Moscow.

By ADAM NOSSITER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2I3UpmI
via IFTTT Two people have been held in the death of Mireille Knoll, who was found in her Paris apartment. She had survived a 1942 roundup of French Jews.

By CHRIS BUCKLEY and CHOE SANG-HUN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2G9cjYS
via IFTTT The Japanese broadcaster NTV aired footage of what it said was a train similar to the ones used in the past by the North’s leadership.

By IVAN NECHEPURENKO from NYT World https://ift.tt/2GdqND0
via IFTTT Panicked people were unable to escape the blaze in Siberia, officials said. At least 64 people were killed, many of them children.

By RUSSELL GOLDMAN and RICK GLADSTONE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2GpiIyr
via IFTTT The expulsion of Russian officials in response to the alleged poisoning of a former spy resembles the tactics of the Cold War.

By KATIE ROGERS and EILEEN SULLIVAN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2pJb1sn
via IFTTT The expulsion order included 12 people identified as Russian intelligence officers station at the United Nations. The Russian consulate in Seattle also must close.

By AZAM AHMED from NYT World https://ift.tt/2IREfOK
via IFTTT Traversing the border area, the photographer John Moore covered the story of immigration from all sides. Here are 17 striking photographs.

By YONETTE JOSEPH from NYT World https://ift.tt/2DSsnIB
via IFTTT Qantas calls its first direct, nonstop Dreamliner flight from Perth to London a “game changer.”

By THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT World https://ift.tt/2IQWpQy
via IFTTT Mr. Puigdemont was on his way back to Belgium from Finland, where the authorities had received an international warrant for his arrest.

By JANE PERLEZ and SU-HYUN LEE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2G5KYCJ
via IFTTT Around 30,000 North Koreans have successfully defected to the South. But under the reign of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, far fewer people are getting out.

By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2uh1Jcy
via IFTTT Small amounts of marijuana can be bought in the Netherlands, but it is illegal to grow cannabis, and coffee shops must turn to the black market to stock up. A pilot program will test legalizing production.

By CHOE SANG-HUN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2G7InYY
via IFTTT High-level officials from both Koreas will meet next week to discuss the agenda for the talks between Kim Jong-un, the North’s leader, and the South’s president, Moon Jae-in.

By ELIAN PELTIER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2pE3MTi
via IFTTT France mourned a police officer who died of his injuries after swapping places with a hostage held by a gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State.

By ANDREW E. KRAMER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2pBENQz
via IFTTT A deserter from the 1980s Soviet war in Afghanistan dreamed for decades of going home, but he has lived long enough to see Russian influence return to northern Afghanistan.

By ELLEN BARRY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2pErez1
via IFTTT The state curriculum urges teachers to “counteract traditional gender roles,” and at one school, girls are encouraged to shout “No!” and boys run the play kitchen.

By ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2G3YP0A
via IFTTT Lalu Prasad Yadav was convicted of embezzling 37 million rupees to buy fictitious medicines and cattle fodder while he was chief minister of Bihar State from 1990 to 1997.

By JANE PERLEZ from NYT World http://ift.tt/2IHR91r
via IFTTT The historian Shen Zhihua says the Communist Party should relax. “I would say: ‘Those mistakes were made in the past, not now, and we need to learn from our mistakes.’”

By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2udYPoW
via IFTTT A resolution passed by the United Nations’ top human rights body reflects a push against international norms, rights organizations and Western officials say.

By MOTOKO RICH from NYT World http://ift.tt/2I0wQeH
via IFTTT Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s wooing of President Trump seemed to get Japan little as the United States announced actions on trade.

By AURELIEN BREEDEN from NYT World http://ift.tt/2pBnKOD
via IFTTT The assailant at a Super U market in the southwest of the country had claimed to be acting on behalf of the Islamic State; he was killed by the police.

By RUSSELL GOLDMAN from NYT World http://ift.tt/2ueNW6o
via IFTTT Poor weather and the threat of sharks were hindering emergency efforts.

By GERRY MULLANY and CHOE SANG-HUN from NYT World http://ift.tt/2ucHBIK
via IFTTT “We will have to see if Bolton opens his mouth and launches his verbal attacks against the North,” said one South Korean analyst, fearing that talks with Kim Jong-un would be derailed.

By CEYLAN YEGINSU from NYT World http://ift.tt/2DLglk7
via IFTTT The British manufacturer of the current burgundy version said that the new design, in a traditional dark blue, would be made by a continental rival.

By CHRIS BUCKLEY and SUI-LEE WEE from NYT World http://ift.tt/2py0v7e
via IFTTT China proposed tariffs on $3 billion worth of American fruit, pork, wine and other goods, striking back just hours after President Trump’s announcement.