The Summer Olympics are underway in Paris with athletes from over 200 delegations competing in 32 sports. We asked some of our favorite cartoonists to live-illustrate the biggest cultural moments from the Games. This story will be updated regularly throughout the Games. Check back for more dispatches. Source link
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PARIS — France’s audacious plan to open the Paris Olympic Games on the Seine raised plenty of eyebrows before Friday night’s ceremonies. Detractors worried about security, about crowd management, about the logistics of moving 85 boats carrying 6,800 athletes down the Seine. Coordinated arson attacks on France’s high-speed rail network Thursday night further raised anxieties
Olympic Ceremonies on the Seine were a daring feat. Paris stuck the landing. Read More »
Two top-ranking figures within Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa Cartel were arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas on Thursday, swinging a blow to the criminal gang responsible for supplying more fentanyl into the United States than any other. Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was an elusive Sinaloa kingpin who evaded capture for decades. Joaquín Guzmán López is a
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MEXICO CITY — Mexico wasn’t informed of the secret U.S. operation to whisk two Sinaloa cartel leaders to Texas until after the men were taken into custody, the country’s top security official said Friday. The arrests Thursday of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López were a historic coup for U.S. agents pursuing a
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LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his new Labour government will not continue with his predecessor’s objection to the International Criminal Court’s right to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the conduct of the war in Gaza. A spokeswoman for 10 Downing Street said Friday that the new
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LONDON — A video clip showing a British police officer kicking a man in the head as he lies face down at an airport has sparked protests and accusations of police brutality and racism. Video footage of the Tuesday incident at Manchester Airport shows a White male officer pointing a Taser at a man lying
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When President Biden said he was dropping his reelection bid, the sudden upheaval in U.S. politics came as a blow for many in the Russian elite who closely track relations between Moscow and the West. Biden’s withdrawal in favor of Vice President Harris has upended a race that the Kremlin and its backers saw as
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The Paris Olympics are about to start — so expect lots of pomp, ceremony and national pride. But with about 10,500 athletes representing about 200 territories competing in a total of 329 medal events, it can be hard to get everything right. Can you pick the right flags and national anthems for the following scenarios
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TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rose to power in 2015 — and rescued the Liberal Party from irrelevance — on promises to bring “real change” and infuse Canadian politics with “sunny ways.” Nearly nine years later, the forecast for the progressive icon is cloudy. His party, which has been slumping in the polls for
From ‘sunny ways’ to cloudy days: Canadians have tired of Justin Trudeau Read More »
When NATO this month accused China of being a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the bloc wasn’t referring to Chinese tanks, or ammunition, or troops. The statement instead pointed to Chinese transfers of “dual use” equipment, like sophisticated machine tools, that have been used to make Russian weapons. China’s exports of those machine
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