| A second day of demonstrations across Pakistan has deepened the turmoil after the arrest of the former prime minister Imran Khan and prompted the army to deploy units in at least two provinces.The stalled partnership between a German port and a Chinese port reveals Germany’s new wariness of China.Residents of a Swiss village were told to evacuate after geologists warned that parts of a nearby mountain were dangerously close to collapsing.An election in the Indian state of Karnataka is being closely watched for what it might say about national elections next year. |
| Other Big Stories |
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| Google is embedding its latest A.I. technology into 25 products, including its search engine and its popular email service. |
| Rep. George Santos of New York, who lied about his background, was charged with money laundering, stealing public money, wire fraud and making false statements to Congress.A Texas man convicted of killing a Black Lives Matter protester was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Gov. Greg Abbott has said he wants to pardon the man.Inflation in the U.S. slowed for a 10th straight month. Prices have still risen about 5 percent over the past year. |
| What Else Is Happening |
| Scientists unveiled a more diverse genome that could improve our understanding of human biology and personalized medicine.A pancreatic cancer vaccine showed promising results in a small trial. |
| A Morning Read |
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| In Japan, cats are revered, adored and sometimes seen as actual demons. And you find them everywhere: on city streets or in any of the country’s cat theme parks, cat shrines, cat cafes and even cat islands. |
| SPORTS NEWS FROM THE ATHLETIC |
| A chaotic week at Paris St.-Germain could have major consequences: The drama at the soccer club has evoked comparisons to the TV show “Dallas.” |
| Assessing Real Madrid’s 1-1 draw with Manchester City: Kevin De Bruyne and Vinicius Junior scored stunning goals in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal, but Erling Haaland was kept quiet. |
| F1 driver power rankings, Miami edition: The grid didn’t produce a wild race, but a number of drivers put in impressive displays and great overtakes on a tricky track. |
| ARTS AND IDEAS |
| A Black Cleopatra? |
| The casting of Adele James, a biracial British actress, as the formidable ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra in the Netflix docudrama series “African Queens” has resulted in a brouhaha that has reached even the Egyptian government. Cleopatra, critics say, was not Black — and that portrayal is at best a misreading, and at worst a negation, of Egyptian history. |
| The show’s producers say that question marks in Cleopatra’s family tree leave room for the possibility that her mother was of another background, including Indigenous Egyptian. |
| “Why do some people need Cleopatra to be white?” the show’s director, Tina Gharavi, wrote in Variety last month. “Perhaps it’s not just that I’ve directed a series that portrays Cleopatra as Black, but that I have asked Egyptians to see themselves as Africans, and they are furious at me for that.” |
| Writing in The Financial Times, the columnist Stephen Bush argues: “Is Cleopatra Black, or white? The answer is ‘neither.’ These are terms that had absolutely no meaning in the ancient world, and which change their significance constantly in our own time.” |
| For more: For some experts, choosing to portray Cleopatra as Black highlights her role in the history of oppression of Black women. |
