April 18, 2023: Sudan fighting, Alabama party shooting and airline crash acquittal

Facts & Spin for April 18, 2023 top stories: Clashes in Sudan continue for a third day, An Alabama birthday party shooting leaves four dead, The US says it killed an IS leader in northwest Syria, A French court acquits Air France and Airbus over the 2009 Rio-Paris crash, Iran issues prison sentences for the 2020 downing of a Ukrainian airliner, A Kremlin critic is jailed for 25 years, Ex-Chancellor Merkel is granted the highest German honor, SpaceX’s Starship launch is postponed, Trump’s campaign is revealed to have raised $34 million in early 2023, and 11 are killed by heatstroke at a government event in India.

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