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The body of Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize winner killed in Afghanistan, was unrecognizable when it was brought to a Kandahar hospital, one official said. https://ift.tt/3lffmBX https://ift.tt/2TLo8MR World New York Times July 30, 2021 at 08:00PMBody of Reuters Photographer Was Mutilated in Taliban Custody, Officials Say
For months, the authorities and Ms. Dingley’s partner combed the Pyrenees mountains. A DNA test confirmed the identity of remains found near her last known location, a group aiding the search said. https://ift.tt/3ydW4Rj https://ift.tt/3fbhve6 World New York Times July 29, 2021 at 08:00PMRemains of Esther Dingley, Missing British Hiker, Are Found
Struck by gunfire, Martine Moïse lay bleeding as the assassins who killed her husband ransacked her room. Now, she says, the F.B.I. must find the mastermind behind the attack. https://ift.tt/3ibnJwo https://ift.tt/3BTqKtc World New York Times July 29, 2021 at 08:00PM‘They Thought I Was Dead’: Haitian President’s Widow Recounts Assassination
China relies on a system that puts tens of thousands of children in government-run training schools. Many of the young athletes are funneled into less prominent sports that Beijing hopes to dominate. https://ift.tt/3f7eADj https://ift.tt/376SgoR World New York Times July 28, 2021 at 08:00PMThe Chinese Sports Machine’s Single Goal: The Most Golds, at Any Cost
Aid workers say the Ethiopian government has effectively cut off the lone route into the conflict-torn region of Tigray, leading to a risk of mass starvation. https://ift.tt/3j3U089 https://ift.tt/3rDi99m World New York Times July 28, 2021 at 08:00PMThis Ethiopian Road Is a Lifeline for Millions. Now It’s Blocked.
Travelers will still need a negative coronavirus test before entering the country. https://ift.tt/3zMtbvY https://ift.tt/3l9K3IL World New York Times July 27, 2021 at 08:00PMVaccinated U.S. and E.U. travelers can travel to England and Scotland without quarantining.
Travelers will still need a negative coronavirus test before entering the country. https://ift.tt/3f5oVzC https://ift.tt/3l9K3IL World New York Times July 27, 2021 at 08:00PMVaccinated U.S. and E.U. travelers can travel to England and Scotland without quarantining.
The tennis star, who lit the Olympic cauldron, took a drubbing on social media, with some questioning her identity or right to represent the country. https://ift.tt/3l5VCkb https://ift.tt/2VgYDTL World New York Times July 26, 2021 at 08:00PMCritics Pounce on Naomi Osaka After Loss, Denting Japan’s Claim to Diversity
China’s breathtaking economic growth created cities ill-equipped to face extreme weather. Last week’s dramatic floods showed that much will have to change. https://ift.tt/2VcL4Vq https://ift.tt/2TEKJdY World New York Times July 25, 2021 at 08:00PMAs China Boomed, It Didn’t Take Climate Change Into Account. Now It Must.
Hundreds have died from Covid-19 in recent weeks, many of them under the age of 5. National leaders face mounting criticism that they have been unprepared. https://ift.tt/3iDVLZa https://ift.tt/3kVyKnA World New York Times July 24, 2021 at 08:00PMNo Longer ‘Hidden Victims,’ Children Are Dying as Virus Surges in Indonesia
Phil Valentine is currently one of hundreds of Covid patients in Tennessee, which has seen a 77 percent increase in hospitalizations over the past two weeks. https://ift.tt/3iZDwOn https://ift.tt/3iLgBG7 World New York Times July 23, 2021 at 08:00PMHospitalized with Covid, a conservative Tennessee radio host shifts his message to urge vaccinations.
While some indulged in baking through lockdown, a husband-and-wife team discovered an exceptionally large and well-preserved group of Jurassic starfish. https://ift.tt/3i1jcwq https://ift.tt/3eT8jeh World New York Times July 23, 2021 at 08:00PMAmateur Fossil Hunters Make Rare Find in U.K. Using Google Earth
In 2015, Spain said it would give citizenship to the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled during the Spanish Inquisition. Then rejections started pouring in this summer. https://ift.tt/3eQ7L93 https://ift.tt/3iHJ3Zz World New York Times July 23, 2021 at 08:00PMSpain Pledged Citizenship to Sephardic Jews. Now They Feel Betrayed.
Four months after the megaship Ever Given got stuck in the canal, neither the canal nor the shipping industry has addressed some of the most critical issues that led to the grounding. https://ift.tt/2Ukbqow https://ift.tt/3ksFdpR World New York Times July 16, 2021 at 08:00PMHow One of the World’s Biggest Ships Jammed the Suez Canal
The heaviest rainfall on record in central China also swept cars and people away, caused power outages and led to suspended rail services and flights. https://ift.tt/2UVyMAO World New York Times July 19, 2021 at 08:00PM‘Please Save Us!’ Grim Scenes in China as Flood Inundates a Subway
The relaxed rules at the border will apply to fully vaccinated travelers. https://ift.tt/3BlBsrZ World New York Times July 18, 2021 at 08:00PMCanada will reopen its border with the U.S. and hopes to allow others in by early September.
A politically active company just waded into one of the most fraught issues in the world, and the reaction was immediate. https://ift.tt/2VO8PDB https://ift.tt/3Bjfl5I World New York Times July 18, 2021 at 08:00PMBen & Jerry’s to Stop Selling Ice Cream in Israeli-Occupied Territories
A Times investigation found that systemic failures at a government agency contributed to Taiwan’s worst rail disaster in seven decades. https://ift.tt/2Utl4Fj https://ift.tt/3wQHkWZ World New York Times July 18, 2021 at 08:00PMThis Train Crash Killed 49 People. It Didn’t Have to Happen.
The coronavirus has forced a number of social distancing measures at the Summer Games, but the recyclable cardboard beds provided by organizers are not one of them. https://ift.tt/3iorayH https://ift.tt/3iosd1M World New York Times July 18, 2021 at 08:00PM‘Anti-Sex’ Beds in the Olympic Village? A Social Media Theory Is Soon Debunked
Claude Joseph was the country’s leader in the aftermath of President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination. He will hand power to Ariel Henry and join a new unity government intended to keep Haiti stable. https://ift.tt/3eBkrjV https://ift.tt/3rnsRRd World New York Times July 18, 2021 at 08:00PMHaiti, Urged by Foreign Powers, Announces New Government
Cases have now been identified within Tokyo’s Olympic Village, where thousands of athletes are staying during the Games that begin this week. https://ift.tt/3zcDEjI https://ift.tt/36OS8KK World New York Times July 17, 2021 at 08:00PMCoco Gauff tests positive for the virus, another blow for the Tokyo Olympics.
The suffering that ravaged places like India and Brazil — with deaths soaring, hospitals overwhelmed and oxygen running out — has reached Southeast Asia. https://ift.tt/3ewyUO6 https://ift.tt/3hNMyhQ World New York Times July 16, 2021 at 08:00PMThe Pandemic Has a New Epicenter: Indonesia
The officer initially told two Colombian soldiers that they would be “arresting” the president, Colombian police said. The order, they said, changed days before the operation. https://ift.tt/3ipcks2 https://ift.tt/3izxGmD World New York Times July 15, 2021 at 08:00PMHaitian Ex-Intelligence Officer Gave Order to Kill President, Colombia Says
Floods like these, which have left more than 100 dead, had not been seen in perhaps 1,000 years. For many, the warnings came too late, raising questions about lapses in Germany’s flood alert system. https://ift.tt/3ibXc0I https://ift.tt/3ig4HEc World New York Times July 15, 2021 at 08:00PMEuropean Floods Are Latest Sign of a Global Warming Crisis
Sinkholes that swallowed up houses. Streets disemboweled, their utility lines exposed. Cars carried away and deposited upside down. Homes emptied out, their contents mixed with mud. https://ift.tt/2VHFWca https://ift.tt/3hMbndS World New York Times July 15, 2021 at 08:00PMFlooding in Europe, in Pictures
Strong rains caused rivers to burst their banks and wash away buildings in Belgium and Germany, where at least 1,300 remained missing. Homes and streets in the Netherlands and Switzerland also flooded. https://ift.tt/2UcFmD0 World New York Times July 14, 2021 at 08:00PMHundreds Missing and at Least 69 Dead as Raging Floods Strike Western Europe
The proposal would impose tariffs on some imports from countries with looser environmental rules. It would also mean the end of sales in the European Union of new gas- and diesel-powered cars in just 14 years. https://ift.tt/2U8GNlS https://ift.tt/3egK5KJ World New York Times July 13, 2021 at 08:00PMEurope Unveils Plan to Shift From Fossil Fuels, Setting Up Potential Trade Spats
Guo Gangtang’s cross-country, decades-long search for his son inspired a movie. Now, there’s an ending fit for Hollywood. https://ift.tt/3egALGP https://ift.tt/2U7Sr0m World New York Times July 13, 2021 at 08:00PMParents Who Never Stopped Searching Reunite With Son Abducted 24 Years Ago
Guo Gangtang’s cross-country, decades-long search for his son inspired a movie. Now, there’s an ending fit for Hollywood. https://ift.tt/36BzG81 https://ift.tt/2U7Sr0m World New York Times July 13, 2021 at 08:00PMParents Who Never Stopped Searching Reunite With Son Abducted 24 Years Ago
Could a scavenger hunter’s find be a part of the lost booty once extorted by Vikings to spare Paris from ruin? A full-scale excavation may tell. https://ift.tt/2UGyIom https://ift.tt/3e641j9 World New York Times July 11, 2021 at 08:00PMMedieval French Coins Unearthed in Poland? A Mystery Begins
Protests over the imprisonment of Jacob Zuma have escalated into looting and other destructive lawlessness fed in part by poverty and scant opportunity. https://ift.tt/3yTOGKP World New York Times July 11, 2021 at 08:00PMSouth African Military Is Called In to Quell Violence
At least 20 Colombians have been implicated by Haitian officials in the plot to assassinate the president. But their role in the killing, if any, is murky. https://ift.tt/3e7KwXF https://ift.tt/3yE2eKe World New York Times July 10, 2021 at 08:00PMMurder Mystery: What Were Colombian Military Vets Doing in Haiti?
The social media bigotry, directed at three players who missed penalty kicks in the Euro 2020 final, was condemned by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and most everyone else. https://ift.tt/3yL5fsc https://ift.tt/3yORrgs World New York Times July 11, 2021 at 08:00PMAfter Defeat, England’s Black Soccer Players Face a Racist Outburst
The cows don’t have to produce milk. The pigs sleep late. No animal on this former dairy farm serves a human need. Their only purpose is to live peacefully — and provoke questions about how we eat. https://ift.tt/3r8n0iv https://ift.tt/3r0044Z World New York Times July 9, 2021 at 08:00PMOn This German Farm, Cows Are in Charge. Or at Least Coequals.
Busloads of residents went to tour the charred town of Lytton, British Columbia, this week and found it almost unrecognizable. https://ift.tt/3e5Qc4j https://ift.tt/3k4cszB World New York Times July 9, 2021 at 08:00PMHeat Wave Spread Fire That ‘Erased’ Canadian Town
The suspect is now the third with U.S. ties to be held in the assassination of Haiti’s president. https://ift.tt/3wzflL9 World New York Times July 10, 2021 at 08:00PMHaiti’s police chief suggested a Florida-based doctor arrested in the president’s killing was plotting to assume the presidency.
Dr. Anthony Fauci said federal agencies were conducting independent research on the potential need for vaccine boosters. https://ift.tt/3e8sKU3 https://ift.tt/2TQ00Zz World New York Times July 10, 2021 at 08:00PMFauci says boosters are not recommended ‘right now’ and reiterates school reopening guidance.
The rallies, widely viewed as astonishing for a country that limits dissent, were set off by economic crises worsened by the pandemic. https://ift.tt/3hWwER3 https://ift.tt/2TYzqgM World New York Times July 10, 2021 at 08:00PMCubans Denounce ‘Misery’ in Biggest Protests in Decades
Valued at $3.4 million, a Haitian senator’s Montreal villa has become a potent emblem of the growing gap between Haiti’s impoverished citizens and its wealthy political elite. https://ift.tt/3yH31db https://ift.tt/3k5pcpw World New York Times July 9, 2021 at 08:00PMWho Paid for That Mansion? A Senator or the Haitian People?
Haitian officials identified the American suspects as James Solages and Joseph Vincent, both of Haitian descent. https://ift.tt/2UA0hzP https://ift.tt/2TPYiHv World New York Times July 7, 2021 at 08:00PMTwo U.S. citizens are among at least 17 suspects arrested in the Moïse killing.
Organizers announced in June that domestic fans would be allowed, despite concerns that the Games could be a superspreader event. A sudden rise in cases upended those plans. https://ift.tt/2STKdIv World New York Times July 7, 2021 at 08:00PMSpectators Will Be Barred at Tokyo Olympics Amid New Covid Emergency
The calico prances and dozes on a 26-by-62-foot LED billboard in Tokyo. It has drawn crowds in real life and sparked joy on social media. https://ift.tt/3yF28lD World New York Times July 7, 2021 at 08:00PMA Digital Cat Is Melting Hearts (and Napping a Lot) in Japan
The World Health Organization’ director-general said the toll was continuing to rise largely because of dangerous virus variants and inequities in vaccine distribution. https://ift.tt/2Uq3i5z https://ift.tt/3dUPBSY World New York Times July 7, 2021 at 08:00PMThe world’s known Covid death toll passes four million.
The Constitutional Court had found him guilty of contempt for failing to appear before a commission investigating corruption accusations that tainted a president once best known for fighting apartheid. https://ift.tt/3ACYoCJ World New York Times July 6, 2021 at 08:00PMJacob Zuma, Former South African President, Is Arrested
One of India’s earliest Method actors, he was the last survivor of a triumvirate of actors who ruled Hindi cinema in the 1950s and ’60s. https://ift.tt/3jQDkmg https://ift.tt/3wwd0AV World New York Times July 5, 2021 at 08:00PMDilip Kumar, Film Star Who Brought Realism to Bollywood, Dies at 98
Jovenel Moïse died in an attack on his private residence on the outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince. His wife was also shot. The prime minister said a group of attackers was involved. https://ift.tt/3hFZ3ed https://ift.tt/3dU3TDA World New York Times July 6, 2021 at 08:00PMAfter the killing of Haiti’s president, the threat of further political violence escalates.
The World Bank said the financial crisis could rank among the world’s three worst since the mid-1800s. The currency has lost more than 90 percent of its value and unemployment has skyrocketed. https://ift.tt/3dLW3vt https://ift.tt/3dQz7LI World New York Times July 4, 2021 at 08:00PMAs Lebanon’s Crisis Deepens, Lines for Fuel Grow, and Food and Medicine Are Scarce
Francis suffered a disorder that is relatively common and treatable, and doctors expect him to make a full recovery. https://ift.tt/36eUMJk https://ift.tt/3xiL58w World New York Times July 4, 2021 at 08:00PMA Closer Look at the Colon Condition That Hospitalized the Pope
With the discovery of human remains on the grounds of residential schools, this history is now dominating the conversation in the country. https://ift.tt/3jRQLCq https://ift.tt/3AtGe6y World New York Times July 4, 2021 at 08:00PMCanada’s Grim Legacy of Cultural Erasure, in Poignant School Photos
An Iranian couple has confessed to murdering and dismembering their son, years after killing a daughter and her husband. They are not sorry. https://ift.tt/3AEBbjQ https://ift.tt/3wgd9bu World New York Times July 4, 2021 at 08:00PMThey Were the Nice, Older Couple Next Door. Then the First Body Turned Up.