**UNICEF: Digital divide hits women harder in poor countries**
A new report has raised concerns over the disparity in internet access between women and men in low-income countries.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/27/unicef-digital-divide-hits-women-harder-in-poor-countries
**Al Jazeera’s Folly Bah Thibault appointed to UN education fund**
The acclaimed international journalist from Guinea has been appointed as a Global Champion for Education Cannot Wait.
**As inequality deepens, who will rewrite the rules?**
The experts and politicians who created this crisis should not be allowed to redesign the economic system.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/4/27/as-inequality-deepens-who-will-rewrite-the-rules
**Want to fix the climate? End debt traps**
Extortionate debt forces nations to pursue climate-unfriendly policies hoping to repay loans. Until the next crisis.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/4/27/want-to-fix-the-climate-end-debt-traps
**More air strikes in Sudan as ceasefire expiry looms**
Fighting between the army and RSF paramilitary rages for a second straight day in West Darfur's capital, Geneina.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/27/more-air-strikes-in-sudan-as-ceasefire-expiry-looms
**Photos: Sudanese and foreigners escape during letup in fighting**
But ceasefire attempts have largely failed so far, causing tens of thousands of people to flee the country.
**World’s highest railway bridge to open in Kashmir soon**
The bridge over the Chenab River, taller than the Eiffel Tower, will provide all-weather connectivity with the valley.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/27/worlds-highest-railway-bridge-to-open-in-kashmir-soon
**Disney sues Florida’s DeSantis over efforts to ‘weaponize’ govt**
Disney says there was 'a relentless campaign to weaponize government power against Disney' over free speech.
**Columnist E Jean Carroll begins testimony in Trump rape trial**
A New York judge has admonished Trump for calling the trial a 'witch hunt' on the social network Truth Social.
**Fear, guilt and hope in Sudan**
An army and a militia are destroying our country, but we cannot give up; we, the Sudanese people, will persevere.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/4/26/fear-guilt-and-hope-in-sudan
**Xi holds first talks with Zelenskyy since Russian invasion**
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy describes the talk with Chinese President Xi Jinping as 'long and meaningful'.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/26/xi-holds-first-talks-with-zelenskyy-since-russian-invasion
**Humanitarian fears as thousands of Sudanese flee to Chad on foot**
UN estimates 100,000 people will flee Sudan conflict to Chad, which already hosts more than half a million refugees.
**UN’s new Haiti envoy warns of ‘alarming’ surge in violence**
More than 1,600 homicides, rapes, kidnappings and lynchings reported in first quarter of 2023, BINUH chief says.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/26/uns-new-haiti-envoy-warns-of-alarming-surge-in-violence
**Ex-Brazil President Bolsonaro appears before police in riot probe**
Authorities are investigating Bolsonaro's alleged role in his supporters' January 8 attack on government institutions.
**Chile bets on becoming world lithium leader as demand rises**
President Gabriel Boric's programme to exert state control over lithium production sparks conservative backlash.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/26/chile-bets-on-becoming-world-lithium-leader-as-demand-rises
**South Korea-US summit to be topped by nuclear-armed sub agreement**
Biden and Yoon to sign deal to deploy US submarines to deter North Korea for first time in more than 40 years: US officials.
**Uganda’s anti-gay bill preys on African exceptionalism**
I was once a homophobe who bought into the lies of African leaders who blamed the West for homosexuality.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/4/26/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-preys-on-african-exceptionalism
**Dozens of bodies wash ashore after boats sink off Libya coast**
Some of the refugees were from Pakistan, Syria, Tunisia and Egypt, a Libyan coast guard officer said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/25/dozens-bodies-washed-ashore-after-boats-sink-libya-coast
**US default on debt will trigger an ‘economic catastrophe’: Yellen**
Janet Yellen warned that a default would result in job losses while driving household payments on higher interest rates.
**WHO says ‘huge biological risk’ after Sudan fighters occupy lab**
'One of the fighting parties' has seized control of a laboratory in Khartoum and 'kicked out all the technicians'.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/25/more-foreigners-flee-sudan-fighters-seize-labouratory