While your travel plans may be on hold, you can pretend you’re somewhere new for the night. Around the World at Home invites you to channel the spirit of a new place each week with recommendations on how to explore the culture, all from the comfort of your home. Paris is a…
Month: November 2020
10 French Movies That Can Transport You to Paris
While your travel plans may be on hold, you can pretend you’re somewhere new for the night. Around the World at Home invites you to channel the spirit of a new place each week with recommendations on how to explore the culture, all from the comfort of your home. “America is my…
Different Virus Responses
Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. The U.S. and Europe are responding to the latest virus waves differently, and one approach is working better than the other. ImageA restaurant open for take out in Nice, France.Credit…Sebastien Nogier/EPA, via Shutterstock As the coronavirus has surged again in…
Britain’s prime minister is quarantining, and other news around the world.
Seven months after he battled a serious case of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain announced on Sunday that he was quarantining after coming into contact with a lawmaker later found to be infected. Mr. Johnson’s office said in a statement that he felt fine…
U.S. Election, Boris Johnson, Nagorno-Karabakh: Your Monday Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering the latest from the U.S. election, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s quarantine and a turning point in Nagorno-Karabakh. ImageTrump supporters protested the results of the 2020 presidential election in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.Credit…Kenny Holston for The New York Times…
Her Abuse Was a ‘Family Matter,’ Until It Went Live
Lhamo, a Tibetan farmer in southwestern China, lived her life mostly outdoors and shared it online, posting videos of herself cooking, singing and picking herbs in the mountains around her village. By this fall, she had about 200,000 followers, many of whom praised her as cheerful and hardworking. Over 400 of them…
Iran Denies That Al Qaeda Leader Was Killed in Tehran
Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday denied a report that Israeli agents had fatally shot Al Qaeda’s second-ranking leader on the streets of Tehran, likening it to a “Hollywood” scenario manufactured by “American and Zionist” officials. The ministry issued the denial to Iranian reporters in the wake of a report Friday by The…
Western Sahara Ends Truce With Morocco
CAIRO — The leader of a pro-independence group in Western Sahara declared war Saturday on Morocco, shattering a three-decade-long cease-fire and threatening a full-blown military conflict in the disputed desert territory in northwest Africa. The announcement came a day after Morocco launched a military operation in a United Nations-patrolled buffer zone after…
Iota Becomes 30th Named Storm in a Record-Breaking Season
Tropical Storm Iota stirred in the Caribbean Sea on Friday evening, becoming the 30th named storm in the record-breaking 2020 hurricane season. The storm, which was moving south-southwest at three miles per hour as of 10 p.m. Friday, was about 610 miles east of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Nicaragua/Honduras border.…
How Do Canadians Remember World War II 75 Years Afterward?
Although this year was the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the pandemic diminished the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa. Instead of thousands of people filling the streets around Confederation Square, a few hundred people came and stood or sat socially distanced around the National War Memorial. ImageCanada…
Does Elon Musk have the coronavirus? After four tests, he still doesn’t know.
Elon Musk, the SpaceX chief executive, has tested positive twice, and negative twice, for the coronavirus after taking four rapid virus tests, he revealed in a disgruntled tweet early Friday morning. The announcement came just days before his company’s much-anticipated launch of a Crew Dragon capsule that will carry four astronauts to…
Polling Problems
Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. It’s another record day for virus cases. Obama’s memoir gets a glowing review. And we look at why the polls were wrong. ImageElection night in San Francisco.Credit…Jim Wilson/The New York Times Fool us once … The polls were wrong again,…
London Police to Recruit 40% of Officers From Minority Backgrounds
LONDON — The London Metropolitan Police will aim to hire 40 percent of new recruits from Black, Asian and other minority backgrounds by 2022, Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Friday, the centerpiece of a sweeping effort to make the city’s police forces more representative as it tries to address accusations of racism…
From ‘Street Kid’ in India to Top Toronto Chef
TORONTO — Sash Simpson made his name as a chef for Canada’s rich, preparing them chardonnay-poached lobster and $27 foie gras-smothered burgers. But four decades ago, he was a street kid in southern India, eating out of garbage bins behind restaurants in Coimbatore, a textile hub in the state of Tamil Nadu.…
South Africa will lift restrictions on all international travel.
South Africa will open its borders to all international travelers, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Wednesday, even as the number of new coronavirus cases rises in some parts of the country, leaving some officials concerned that a rollback on travel restrictions could invite a second wave. “We are also opening up international travel…
The ‘Detective Work’ Behind a War Novel
When Maaza Mengiste found out that she was a Booker Prize finalist for her novel “The Shadow King,” “I went from screaming into the phone, when my editor told me, to just sitting down very quietly,” she said in a phone interview. “I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t move,” Mengiste added. “I was…
Trump, Covid-19, Terrorism: Your Thursday Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering the latest from the U.S. election, weakness in Egypt’s underfunded health system and how pollsters got it wrong, again. ImagePresident Trump has shattered a bedrock democratic tradition by raising even the possibility that he would have to be…
Italy, Covid-19, Trump: Your Wednesday Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering new lockdown measures for Italy, what President Trump’s defeat means for populism, and Denmark’s mink cull. ImageA deserted waterway in Milan on Tuesday.Credit…Daniel Dal Zennaro/EPA, via Shutterstock Italy locks down more regions as hospitals struggle As a second…
Amadou Toumani Touré, Former Malian President, Dies at 72
Amadou Toumani Touré, a former president of Mali who helped shape the country’s political landscape over two decades before being toppled in a military coup in 2012, died on Monday in a hospital in Istanbul. He was 72. Mr. Touré’s chief of staff, Seydou Cissouma, confirmed the death but provided no details.…
Administration Proposes Arms Deal for U.A.E., but Some in Congress Already Object
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration formally notified Congress on Tuesday that it plans to sell F-35 stealth fighters, advanced armed drones and other sophisticated weaponry to the United Arab Emirates, setting up a potential battle with lawmakers in the administration’s final weeks. The $23 billion arms sale could alter the military balance…