The directors of publicly funded museums in Slovenia serve five-year terms, and many were scheduled to come up for renewal shortly after Mr. Jansa took power. “On the one side there’s people who want museums to be responsible, relevant and ethical, and places of understanding and tolerance especially of minorities,” said Kaja…
Survivors get a vaccine on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Hundreds of survivors of the Holocaust are set to be vaccinated this week in Austria and Slovakia as part of vaccine drives organized in observance of the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, a day known as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. More than seven decades after one of…
The Filibuster Fight
Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. Why is there a big debate over the filibuster? Because it benefits one political party much more than the other. If you examine the history of the filibuster — a Senate rule requiring a supermajority vote on many bills, rather…
Farmers Protest in New Delhi
new video loaded: Farmers Protest in New Delhi transcript Back bars 0:00/0:49 –0:49 transcript Farmers Protest in New Delhi Thousands of farmers protesting new farm laws poured into New Delhi on Tuesday and stormed the historic Red Fort in Delhi. [crowd shouting] Recent episodes in International International video coverage from The New…
How Travel Restrictions Work
Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. Travel restrictions have been one of the most effective pandemic responses — if they’re strict. One of the biggest lessons of the pandemic has been the success of travel restrictions at reducing its spread. And this is a moment when…
Diary Sow, Senegalese Student Missing in Paris, Is Said to Be Found
PARIS — A star student from Senegal who went missing without a word in Paris earlier this month, setting off an outpouring of concern, is said to have turned up, but the mystery surrounding her disappearance is, if anything, deeper than ever. Senegalese officials in France said the student, Diary Sow, had…
navalny-russia-europe
BRUSSELS — Despite pressure from some European Union countries on Monday to sanction Russia further after the arrest of the Kremlin critic Aleksei A. Navalny and thousands of his supporters, the bloc’s top foreign policy official will go ahead with a visit to Moscow early next month and meet with Russian officials…
Five Past Vaccine Drives and How They Worked
Scientists developed vaccines less than a year after Covid-19 was identified, a reflection of remarkable progress in vaccine technology. But progress in vaccine distribution is another story. Many questions that arose in vaccine rollouts decades ago are still debated today. How should the local and federal authorities coordinate? Who should get vaccinated…
Song Yoo-jung, a South Korean Actress, Has Died at 26
Song Yoo-jung in 2014. She appeared in several Korean television dramas and also acted in music videos.Credit…Dong-a Ilbo, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A 26-year-old actress was found dead on Saturday in Seoul, South Korea, the latest loss of a young performer in the country’s entertainment industry, which has faced a reckoning…
Britain’s Alarm Over Virus Variant Bolsters Case for Lockdown
LONDON — Britain’s disclosure Friday that a new variant of the virus could be deadlier than the original raised a stir about why such alarming information was put out when the evidence was so inconclusive. But there is little debate over its impact: It has silenced those who called for life to…
French Roosters Now Crow With the Law Behind Them
PARIS — The crow of a rooster and the ringing of a church bell at dawn. The rumble of a tractor and the smell of manure wafting from a nearby stable. The deafening song of cicadas or the discordant croaking of frogs. Quacking ducks, bleating sheep and braying donkeys. Perennial rural sounds…
China Sends Warplanes to Taiwan Strait in a Show of Force to Biden
HONG KONG — China sent warplanes into the Taiwan Strait over the weekend, a show of force to the Biden administration that signals Beijing’s plans to maintain pressure on Taiwan even as it calls for a reset with the United States. Taiwan’s military said that four Chinese fighter jets, eight bombers and…
Hong Kong and Madrid are the latest to tighten lockdowns amid new infections and concerns over the new variant.
New infections in recent months and a contagious new variant threatening to accelerate the pandemic have prompted some governments to revert to their harshest social-distancing measures. In Hong Kong, the authorities said on Saturday that they had locked down part of a densely packed neighborhood and started to test everyone there, one…
Olympic Athlete Speaks of Assault and Breaks a Bigger Silence in Greece
Many victims do not speak out, Ms. Sakellaropoulou said on Monday after meeting Ms. Bekatorou, “because they know that in the best-case scenario they will face pity or mistrust and in the worst case contempt, derision, even social stigma.” While incidents are rarely reported, studies suggest that sexual harassment in Greek workplaces…
In Crises, Vaccines Can Be Stretched, but Not Easily
In desperate times, there are many ways to stretch vaccines and speed up inoculation campaigns, according to experts who have done it. Splitting doses, delaying second shots, injecting into the skin instead of the muscle and employing roving vaccination teams have all saved lives — when the circumstances were right. During cholera…
Coronavirus Variant May Have Higher Death Rate, Johnson Says
new video loaded: Coronavirus Variant May Have Higher Death Rate, Johnson Says transcript Back bars 0:00/1:12 –1:12 transcript Coronavirus Variant May Have Higher Death Rate, Johnson Says British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that the new variant of the coronavirus, first detected in England, may be associated with a higher degree of…
Smugglers Get Long Prison Terms in U.K. for Their Roles in Killing 39 Migrants
LONDON — Four smugglers convicted of killing 39 people from Vietnam who died in the back of a container truck as it was shipped to England were sentenced Friday to between 13 and 27 years in prison. The victims, ages 15 to 44, were found in October 2019 inside a refrigerated container…
A glimmer of hope in the U.K.: Nearly 5 million have received vaccine shots.
For weeks, Britain has reported eye-watering coronavirus death numbers, hospitals have continued to fill up, and fears are high that it will take months to control the spread of a highly transmissible variant first detected in the Kent region of England last year. Yet vaccination figures have offered a glimmer of hope:…
Glastonbury Canceled Again, Casting Doubt Over Europe’s Music Festivals
LONDON — Britain’s Glastonbury festival, one of the world’s most prominent pop music events, was canceled on Thursday for a second year in a row because of the coronavirus — sparking fear that large music festivals in Europe will not go ahead this summer. “In spite of our efforts to move Heaven…
An A.S.L. interpreter who gave coronavirus updates dies of Covid-19 complications.
Patty Sakal, an American Sign Language interpreter who translated updates about the coronavirus for deaf Hawaiians.Credit…via Sakal family Patty Sakal, an American Sign Language interpreter who translated updates about the coronavirus for deaf Hawaiians, died on Friday of complications related to Covid-19. She was 62. Ms. Sakal, who lived in Honolulu, died…