council to immediately seek power to civilians protesters responded to social media appeals and joined a sit in outside the defense ministry the demonstrations are the largest since the military ousted longtime president omar al bashir one week ago. on the portuguese island madera german foreign minister heikal mohsin visited the site of a bus crash that killed twenty nine german tourists on wednesday evening later he met with survivors at a nearby hospital investigators have not yet determined why the bus went out of control in a curve. hundreds of nicaraguans defied a police ban to join a holy week procession to the capital. they were marking the start of anti-government protests a year ago opposition groups say at least sixty seven people were arrested a police crackdown on last year s protests left at least three hundred twenty five people dead. and pope francis has washed the feet of several prison inmates as part