World News (NYT)

by Jason Horowitz on 2021-05-10 in Royal Families, Italy

The son of Italy’s last king has tapped his teen granddaughter to eventually lead the House of Savoy, pretenders to Italy’s defunct throne. “Totally illegitimate,” says a rival clan.

by Natasha Frost on 2021-05-10

Rising vaccination rates in Europe.

by Bryan Pietsch and Austin Ramzy on 2021-05-10 in internal-essential, European Union, BioNTech SE, Pfizer Inc, Vaccination and Immunization, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Europe

The increase underscores the global disparities in vaccination efforts.

by Abby Goodnough on 2021-05-10 in internal-essential, Fauci, Anthony S, Gottlieb, Scott (1972- ), Zients, Jeffrey D, Coronavirus Risks and Safety Concerns, Vaccination and Immunization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States, State of the Union (TV Program), This Week (TV Program)

The comments from President Biden’s chief medical adviser came just two days after the C.D.C. belatedly highlighted the danger of airborne transmission.

by Adam Nossiter on 2021-05-09 in Afghanistan, Terrorism, Hazaras (Ethnic Group), Women and Girls, Funerals and Memorials, Afghanistan War (2001- ), Taliban, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Kabul (Afghanistan), Education (K-12), Minorities

A bomb attack that killed scores of schoolgirls, members of a long-persecuted minority, offered still more evidence that Afghanistan may be on the verge of unraveling.

by Dan Bilefsky on 2021-05-09 in Cirque du Soleil, Acrobats and Acrobatics, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Circuses, Las Vegas (Nev), Montreal (Quebec), Theater

After shuttering dozens of shows and shedding most of its work force, the vaunted Canadian circus faces an uphill struggle to bounce back.

by Steven Erlanger and David E. Sanger on 2021-05-09 in Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Arms Control and Limitation and Disarmament, United States International Relations, United States Politics and Government, Embargoes and Sanctions, Biden, Joseph R Jr, Trump, Donald J, Blinken, Antony J, Khamenei, Ali, Rouhani, Hassan, Zarif, Mohammad Javad, Israel, Vienna (Austria)

After five weeks of diplomatic shadow boxing, it is clear that the old agreement no longer works for Tehran or Washington, except as a steppingstone.

by Amelia Nierenberg and Whet Moser on 2021-05-09 in Afghanistan, India, Iran, United States, Poonawalla, Adar (1981- ), Serum Institute of India, Taliban, Politics and Government, United States International Relations, Peace Process, Nuclear Weapons, Vaccination and Immunization, Afghanistan War (2001- ), Mucormycosis, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Nuclear Tests

A vaccine crisis in India.

by Mujib Mashal on 2021-05-09 in internal-essential, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Mucormycosis, India

The condition, known as mucormycosis, seems to be infecting some Covid patients with weakened immune systems and underlying conditions, particularly diabetes.

by Patrick Kingsley on 2021-05-09 in Israeli Settlements, Politics and Government, Palestinians, Land Use Policies, Evictions, East Jerusalem, Israel, Jerusalem (Israel)

The threat to evict six families from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah had become a rallying cry for Palestinians.

by Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Najim Rahim on 2021-05-09 in Afghanistan, Kabul (Afghanistan), Terrorism, Women and Girls, School Shootings and Armed Attacks, Civilian Casualties, Hazaras (Ethnic Group), Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Taliban, United States Defense and Military Forces

The attack, which came at the end of a particularly violent week, underlined growing concerns about the American troop withdrawal.

by The New York Times on 2021-05-09 in internal-essential, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Erdogan, Recep Tayyip, Istanbul (Turkey)

The government ordered nonessential workers to stay home starting on April 29, but many of the country’s workers are exempt.

by Maria Varenikova and Andrew E. Kramer on 2021-05-09 in Monuments and Memorials (Structures), Scythians (Ancient Civilization), Funerals and Memorials, Archaeology and Anthropology, Dnipro (Ukraine), Kyiv (Ukraine), Ukraine

The Scythians, marijuana-smoking nomadic warriors of ancient Ukraine, built thousands of burial mounds that are at risk today. A preservation group finds resonance in them for a country at war.

by Jacey Fortin on 2021-05-09 in World War I (1914-18), Alps Mountains, Defense and Military Forces, Glaciers, Global Warming, Archaeology and Anthropology

Artifacts from the White War — a battle between Italian and Austro-Hungarian troops that took place in the forbidding heights of the Alps — are on their way to a museum.

by Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio on 2021-05-09 in internal-essential

by Andrew Higgins on 2021-05-09 in Czech Republic, Russia, Vlachovice-Vrbetice (Czech Republic), Arms Trade, Bombs and Explosives, Sabotage (Crime), Defense and Military Forces, GRU (Russia), Espionage and Intelligence Services, Cold War Era, Politics and Government, International Relations

Was a huge blast at a Czech weapons depot sabotage by Russian spies? The villagers where it happened aren’t sure, but they do know they only want to watch James Bond films, not live inside one.

by Steven Lee Myers and Kenneth Chang on 2021-05-09 in China, Rocket Science and Propulsion, Accidents and Safety, Space and Astronomy, Space Stations, Aerospace Corp, Earth, Tianwen-1 (Mars Mission), Indian Ocean

Most of the debris burned up on re-entry Sunday morning, China said. The head of NASA accused it of “failing to meet responsible standards.”

by Mark Landler on 2021-05-08 in Scotland, Elections, Secession and Independence Movements, Scottish National Party, Sturgeon, Nicola, Legislatures and Parliaments, Johnson, Boris, Politics and Government

The Scottish National Party fell short of an outright majority, though pro-independence parties appeared to retain control of Scotland’s Parliament.

by Stephen Castle on 2021-05-08 in Referendums, Great Britain Withdrawal from EU (Brexit), Secession and Independence Movements, Scottish National Party, Sturgeon, Nicola, Johnson, Boris, Scotland

Scots voted to remain in the E.U., and they resent being dictated to by England. And they just plain don’t like Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

by Daniel E. Slotnik and Lauren Hard on 2021-05-08 in internal-essential, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Puerto Rico

Strict measures in early April and rising vaccinations have helped lower the U.S. territory’s new daily cases by more than 60 percent over the past two weeks.

by Anton Troianovski on 2021-05-08 in Russia, Crimea (Ukraine), Ukraine, Water, Shortages, Canals, Levees and Dams, International Relations, Putin, Vladimir V, Defense and Military Forces, Politics and Government

A dried-up canal running from Ukraine into Russian-occupied Crimea is emerging as one of Europe’s main flash points.

by Mark Landler and Stephen Castle on 2021-05-08 in Politics and Government, Elections, Voting and Voters, Legislatures and Parliaments, Conservative Party (Great Britain), Hartlepool (England), England, Johnson, Boris

His pillars of “getting Brexit done” and “leveling up” struggling areas in northern England and the Midlands have fueled a separatist drive in Scotland.

by Elisabetta Povoledo on 2021-05-08 in Neanderthal Man, Hyenas, Archaeology and Anthropology, Paleontology, Fossils, Caves and Caverns, Skull (Body Part), Research, Italy

An archaeological excavation south of Rome uncovered fossil remains of nine Neanderthals, along with the bones of hyenas, elephants and rhinoceroses.

by Jane Arraf on 2021-05-08 in Vaccination and Immunization, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), China National Pharmaceutical Group Corp (Sinopharm), Sadr, Moktada Al-, Iraq

The popular cleric Moktada al-Sadr got a coronavirus vaccine, persuading many of his followers to do the same. Yet millions of Iraqis remain unconvinced.

by Melissa Eddy on 2021-05-08 in Vaccination and Immunization, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Travel and Vacations, AstraZeneca PLC, Pfizer Inc, Germany, Great Britain

The country appears to be breaking a tough third wave of the virus, and one of its tools is the AstraZeneca vaccine, which it spent months questioning.