April 3, 2019 - Daily News Brief - a podcast by TRT World

This is TRT World’s Daily News Brief for Wednesday, April 3rd.
*)Abdelaziz Bouteflika steps down as Algerian president
Algeria's long-time president Abdelaziz Bouteflika has stepped down.
He resigned on Tuesday with immediate effect. It came just hours after the head of the military called for him to go, for the second time in just over a week.
However, it's unclear whether Bouteflika's ouster will quell weeks of opposition protests.
Many Algerians want a fresh government, not just a new face of power.
*)Venezuela’s Guaido stripped of immunity
Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly has stripped opposition leader Juan Guaido of his immunity from prosecution.
President Nicolas Maduro set up the Constituent Assembly after he lost control of the National Assembly.
Guaido is head of the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
*)Election body to ‘reassess’ votes in eight Istanbul districts
Turkey’s election body is recounting votes in eight of Istanbul's 39 districts after Sunday's local elections.
In the race for mayor of Turkey's biggest city, the CHP's Ekrem Imamoglu had a narrow lead over the AK Party’s Binali Yildirim ahead of the recount.
Nationwide, the governing AK Party and its MHP coalition ally defeated the opposition alliance by about 52 to 38 percent.
*)Australian senator censured over NZ terror attack comments
Australia's Senate has censured a far-right lawmaker for his comments blaming immigration for the terrorist attack on two mosques in New Zealand.
Senator Fraser Anning was also egged by an irate teenager, whom Anning then slapped in the face.
Fifty people died in the March 15 assault in the New Zealand city of Christchurch.
And finally,
*)Hundreds of tarantulas seized at Manila airport
Customs officials in the Philippines probably thought it was snack time: gift-wrapped boxes of cookies and oatmeal flown all the way from Poland.
Except it wasn't cookies and oatmeal. It was 757 live tarantulas.
A man tried to claim them, saying they were "collectible items." He's been arrested.

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