News of the day from across the world, April 6

Supreme Court Justice Marco Aurelio Mello ruled Tuesday that the lower house of Congress must open impeachment proceedings against Temer because he faces the same allegations of breaking fiscal rules as Rousseff.

With all three of those in line to succeed her —Temer, lower house leader Eduardo Cunha and Senate leader Renan Calheiros — ensnared in the corruption scandal at the state-run oil company, Petrobras, a growing chorus is urging general elections as a way of starting fresh.

Myanmar’s parliament on Tuesday approved the creation of a post for Aung San Suu Kyi, head of the country’s newly installed ruling party, that is similar to prime minister.

The bill establishing the position of state counsellor was opposed by the military’s representatives in parliament, but passed easily because of the strong majority that Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won in November’s election.

Syrian insurgents shot down a government warplane in the north of the country Tuesday and shelled a predominantly Kurdish neighborhood in the city of Aleppo, killing at least nine people, opposition monitoring groups and state media said.

The International Criminal Court has terminated the case against Kenya’s deputy president and ended his trial, saying there is insufficient evidence he was involved in deadly violence that erupted after his country’s 2007 presidential elections.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she wasn’t authorized to be publicly named, said that the Phantom Manor ride is closed and that a police investigation is under way.