Daily Global Issues Brief - April 18, 2016 (headlines)

Good morning, today's top 5 news on global issues are from Syria, Ethiopia, Brazil, Georgia and Japan

SYRIA: Assad's government retaking territory, Turkey fighting Kurdish rebels.. let he who is without sin in this fragile ceasefire cast the first stone...oh wait, stones aka bombs and bullets are cast unabated

ETHIOPIA: What will South Sudanese government's response be when Ethiopian troops pursue the weekend's attackers into South Sudan?

GEORGIA: Like a James Bond movie, Georgian authorities thwart the sale of radioactive material. State and non-state actors with nuclear bomb ambitions are growing despite the simple truth - no one wins by detonating a nuclear bomb.