20:17, 08-May-2018
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Time now for a look at some of the other major stories making headlines around the world.
Armenia's parliament has elected opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan as prime minister, after he led weeks of mass protests against the ruling party. Lawmakers voted 59 to 42 to approve his candidacy. The result came a week after a majority of lawmakers rejected his first bid to take on the top post.
Italy's president has proposed an interim neutral government to break a 64-day political deadlock after elections in March left the country without a new government. He said a neutral government would pass a budget law and a new electoral law, paving the way for new elections in early 2019.
And Nigeria's military says it has rescued more than 1-thousand people held by the Islamist group Boko Haram in the northeastern state of Borno. It says the hostages were mostly women and children, as well as young people who had been forced to fight for the group.