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By Amelia Nierenberg
The first matches of the Women’s World Cup showed the expansion and promise of women’s football, but also some of the sport’s lingering challenges.
All co-hosts started the tournament with 1-0 wins. New Zealand beat Norway in front of the largest crowd the country has ever seen women’s football. “We try very hard because it’s not just about winning a game, it’s about inspiring our whole country,” said Ali Riley, the captain of the New Zealand team.
Australia then beat Ireland despite the absence of their biggest star, Sam Kerr, injured the day before the match. He will miss at least two games, the team announced. The tournament was marred by knee injuries that sidelined nearly a dozen high-profile players.
New Zealand shooting: Hours before the start of the World Cup, a gunman killed two other people at a construction site about five miles from Auckland’s stadium. The gunman also killed, police said.
Looking ahead: The United States, a two-time defending champion, will face Vietnam, which is in its first-ever Women’s World Cup.
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Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on the morning and set it on fire. (Here’s a video. ) The unrest was the latest to spread after a protest last month in Stockholm, where an Iraqi refugee broke and burned a Koran outside the central mosque on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Sweden said no embassy staff were injured. Later that day, two protesters outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm kicked copies of the Koran and trampled on a reproduction of the Iraqi flag. In response, Iraq broke diplomatic relations.
Details: Yesterday’s protest was called at the request of Muqtada al-Sadr, an influential Shiite cleric, who said Sweden is “hostile” to Islam.
Freedom of speech? Sweden has struggled to allow protests related to the burning of the Koran, exacerbating diplomatic tensions over the country’s bid to join NATO.
A violent video went viral in India on Wednesday, drawing attention to bloody ethnic clashes in the northeastern state of Manipur, where two communities are necessarily at war over government benefits.
In the video, two women were attacked and marched naked down a street through a crowd. It took more than two months for news of the shocking sexual assault to spread, in part because the web in the region was shut down, an increasingly common tactic used to limit data access in India.
The attack stunned the nation, raised tensions and drew attention to a clash that has left more than 130 people dead and more than 35,000 displaced. It also prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make his first public comments on what he called a “disgraceful incident. “
Details: The mob raped a woman and killed her brother as he tried to protect her, according to a police report. Many in the crowd were Meitei, who form a narrow majority in Manipur. The victims belonged to a network of other people known as Kukis.
Russia attacked the port cities of Odessa and Mykolaiv while targeting Ukraine’s grain export infrastructure. Wheat costs have risen 13% since Monday.
Belarus said Wagner’s fighters were educational troops near the Polish border, which could increase tensions in an already volatile area.
For the elderly European population living in remote places, heat is the new Covid. If you are over 65, you are more exposed to heat. Here are some tips to stay safe.
Germany, which once scoffed at midday naps to beat the heat, is rethinking naps.
The heatwave in China is worsening its reliance on coal-fired power plants.
Our Climate Forward newsletter looks at how excessive heat affects the economy.
North Korea has remained silent about the U. S. soldier who crossed its border, but if he’s a defector, he may be welcome in the country.
In Beijing, Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, welcomed Henry Kissinger and called the former U. S. secretary of state an “old friend. “
At least 31 other people have been killed in anti-government protests in recent weeks in Kenya.
After Tunisia signed an agreement with the EU to tighten its borders, it has driven African migrants into a no-man’s land with little food and water.
Caroline Ellison, an executive in Sam Bankman-Fried’s business empire, has saved Google documents revealing new data about FTX’s decline.
Yesterday’s British Open. Here are five golfers to watch.
Las Vegas police officers searched a home in connection with the unsolved homicide of rapper Tupac Shakur.
Americans love New Zealand’s fruit-rich ice cream, with added nuggets and drizzle.
Shelby White was a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 33 years and made significant donations to the museum. But their artifacts may have been looted.
Mexican archaeologists have discovered a hidden Mayan city.
Golden retrievers and their human enthusiasts come to the Scottish Highlands every five years to celebrate the founding of the breed. This year’s collection is the largest to date: 488 dogs showed up.
One man, whose last gilding had just died, did the one anyway. “I’m a drug addict,” he said, “and that’s where I come to treat myself. “
Lives Lived: Dermot Doran, an Irish priest, a key player in the 1968 Biafra Airlift in Nigeria, one of the largest civilian humanitarian efforts in history. He died at the age of 88.
In spite of everything, the time has come, cinephiles: in a corner we have “Oppenheimer”, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb”. On the other, we have “Barbie,” Greta Gerwig Day-Glo’s magical, feminist realist edition at Mattel IP.
Our reviewer, Manohla Dargis, reviewed both. He found Christopher Nolan’s complex and brilliant portrait of Oppenheimer to be brilliant in formal and conceptual terms. And Gerwig understands that “Barbie,” Manohla writes, “vibrates with joy, tapping into nostalgia and, for the most part, dodging the thorny contradictions and criticisms that cling to the doll. “
The hype aside, the real check is the box office: either movie opens today in the U. S. UU. Se toy-based comedy is expected to make $100 million this weekend, and the biopic about half. How do you stand between those two mid-century wonders with chiseled cheeks?
This grilled peanut cucumber salad is simple to make, but basic.
The season of “Creamerie,” an apocalyptic comedy series from New Zealand, is full of violent revenge and gripping wit.
Copenhagen is full of avant-garde design, artistic cuisine and striking architecture. Here’s how to spend a weekend in the Danish capital.
Play the mini crossword puzzle and a clue: Sunbeam (three letters).
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So much for today’s briefing. Have a weekend!— Amélie
PS Natasha Frost, who does not speak Yiddish, has written about the joys and demanding situations of reporting on an exclusively Yiddish outdoor gathering in Melbourne, Australia.
“The Daily” is about the excessive heat in Arizona.
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Amelia Nierenberg writes the Asia Pacific morning report for The Times. More information about Amelia Nierenberg
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