The New York Times: Η δεύτερη νύχτα της Εθνικής Συνέλευσης των Δημοκρατικών και τα εμπόδια σε μια συμφωνία κατάπαυσης του πυρός στη Γάζα – Ο πόλεμος της Βαρκελώνης κατά του υπερτουρισμού – Ο Χάρις συγκεντρώνει τους Δημοκρατικούς τη 2η ημέρα του συνεδρίου – Τα εμπόδια παραμένουν στην πρόταση κατάπαυσης του πυρός στη Γάζα – Ο Ζελένσκι ζήτησε να τερματιστεί η Δύση «κόκκινες γραμμές» – Ιταλία: Οι δύτες βαθέων υδάτων συνέχισαν την αναζήτησή τους για έξι επιβάτες – συμπεριλαμβανομένου ενός Βρετανού μεγιστάνα λογισμικού και της κόρης του – που αγνοούνταν μετά τη βύθιση ενός γιοτ στα ανοικτά των ακτών – Αυτό το καλοκαίρι, χιλιάδες ντόπιοι διαδηλωτές στη Βαρκελώνη κατήγγειλαν τον υπερτουρισμό. Αναμένονται ακόμη περισσότερα πλήθη για το America’s Cup, έναν διεθνή διαγωνισμό ιστιοπλοΐας – Το πιο διάσημο φεστιβάλ κλασικής μουσικής στον κόσμο

 U.S. ELECTION 2024

The presidential election is less than 80 days away. This is what we’re watching.

Vice President Kamala Harris made a video appearance from Milwaukee at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last night. Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Harris rallies Democrats on Day 2 of the convention

The lineup of speakers on the second night of the Democratic National Convention featured Barack Obama, and the nominee herself, Vice President Kamala Harris, made a video appearance. A jubilant crowd danced in the aisles and cheered as Republicans who’d disavowed Donald Trump announced their support for Harris. Here’s the latest.

Harris and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, her running mate, were rallying supporters at the site of last month’s Republican convention in Milwaukee, in the swing state of Wisconsin. “This is a people-powered campaign,” she said, appearing on screens throughout the Chicago arena. “And together we will chart a new way forward.”

In a show of unity, the speakers last night included Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, eight years after hundreds of his supporters stormed out of the Democratic convention in Philadelphia to protest Hillary Clinton’s nomination after a bruising primary contest.

Republican counterprogramming: Trump spoke about crime and public safety in Howell, Mich., about an hour northwest of Detroit. His choice of location — a city whose past involves white supremacy and activity by the Ku Klux Klan — drew criticism from the Harris campaign.

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The U.S. secretary of state, Antony Blinken, right, arrived in Egypt on Tuesday for talks with the president and the foreign minister. Pool photo by Kevin Mohatt

Obstacles remain in Gaza cease-fire proposal

The latest U.S.-backed proposal for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, which Israel has accepted and Hamas so far has not, leaves major disagreements between them unresolved, officials said. Negotiations are expected to continue this week, a U.S. official said.

Hamas said yesterday that it was eager to reach a cease-fire but that the latest American proposal was “a reversal” from what it had agreed to in early July.

While many details of the plan remained unclear, at least parts of the American proposal appeared to conform to demands added by Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in late July, officials said, such as Israeli troops continuing to patrol Gaza’s border with Egypt, albeit in reduced numbers.

Recovery efforts: Israeli forces said they had retrieved the bodies of six Israeli hostages from tunnels in southern Gaza.

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A decimated Russian border post after Ukraine’s incursion. David Guttenfelder for The New York Times

Zelensky called for an end to the West’s ‘red lines’

Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, is trying to use his military’s surprise incursion into Russia to convince allies to lift restrictions on its use of Western-supplied long-range weapons.

Ukraine’s assault showed that the West’s fears about the ramifications of attacks on Russian territory were unfounded and should be abandoned, he said. “The whole naïve, illusory concept of so-called red lines regarding Russia, which dominated the assessment of the war by some partners, has crumbled,” he said in a speech published on Monday.

Moscow’s faltering response to Kyiv’s offensive should signal to the world that Russia is not the fearsome superpower it once seemed to be, he said. “It is the time when the world is shedding its last and very naïve illusions about Russia,” he said.

Background: For more than two years, Washington has denied Ukraine permission to strike into Russia using the weapons it supplies, citing fears of an escalating conflict between Moscow and the West. This spring, after months of Ukrainian lobbying, the U.S. and other NATO countries adjusted their policies and allowed it to do so.

Women stepping up: In Ukraine, Russia’s war is reshaping the labor market, as jobs long dominated by men have been left vacant by soldiers sent off to war.

Other news: Ukraine’s Parliament passed a bill creating a legal path to ban a Russian-aligned branch of the Orthodox church.

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This summer, thousands of local protesters in Barcelona denounced overtourism. Still more crowds are expected for the America’s Cup, an international sailing competition.

Barcelona now finds itself limiting some kinds of tourism while encouraging others, in a complicated balancing act. But according to the deputy mayor responsible for tourism, Jordi Valls, the city has no choice. “The demand is unstoppable,” he said. “The only thing we can do is control the supply.”

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The world’s most prestigious classical music festival

Since its founding more than 100 years ago, the Salzburg Festival has been known as a gathering place for the world’s finest musicians. That’s still true, but the event is now also a proving ground for artists on the cusp on stardom. Our classical music critic Joshua Barone went to the festival to see who would break through this year.

One standout: Robert Carsen’s new staging of Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito,” which transports the opera’s ancient Roman tale to the present. With echoes of Giorgia Meloni’s Italy and the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the production is a lesbian political thriller in which Annio is a young woman, sweetly sung by the Israeli mezzo-soprano Anna Tetruashvili. Read Joshua’s other picks.

For more: In Scotland, two different shows at the Edinburgh Fringe make fun of Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski trial — and one of them is a triumph.

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Bake: This big, bold Bundt cake goes heavy on the lemon for an extra-puckery bite.