| Turkey changes course on Sweden |
| The night before a critical summit, in a sudden reversal, Turkey agreed to accept Sweden’s application for membership of NATO. The shift came just hours after Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said the E.U. should first advance his country’s bid to join the bloc before he would clear the path for Sweden. |
| NATO’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said that Erdogan would take the country’s bid to his Parliament for ratification as soon as possible. In return, Sweden and Turkey would work bilaterally against terrorism, Sweden would help reinvigorate Turkey’s application to enter the E.U., and NATO would establish a new “special coordinator for counterterrorism,” he said. |
| The decision followed intense pressure, particularly from President Biden, who called Erdogan on Sunday. A statement by Biden afterward was widely interpreted as an indication that the U.S. would sell Turkey the fighter jets it had demanded. Analysts said the Turkish leader had likely decided that his political brinkmanship would not reap further gains. |
| Summit: Leaders of member nations will meet today in Lithuania, as they prepare for what could be a long war to repel Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, of which NATO is a critical supplier of arms and training. |
| Finland and Sweden: The countries have long histories of military nonalignment. Their membership in NATO essentially turns the Baltic Sea into a NATO-dominated waterway, enhancing the alliance’s ability to protect its most vulnerable members: the Baltic nations. |
 President Vladimir Putin had denounced the leaders of the rebellion as traitors.Sergei Guneyev/Sputnik, via Associated Press |
| Revelations about a Putin-Prigozhin meeting |
| Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, held a three-hour meeting with Yevgeny Prigozhin and top commanders of his Wagner private military company on June 29, just days after they had launched a mutiny that put the nation on the brink of a civil conflict, the Kremlin disclosed yesterday. |
| Putin had denounced the leaders of the rebellion as traitors, so the startling revelation that he played host to them less than a week later suggests that, for all his bluster, he saw a continued use for the mercenary group and its boss. The meeting is the first known contact between the two men since the uprising. |
| It remains unclear why a warlord with his own private army — who attempted to depose the Russian military leadership by force — has been allowed to remain in the country, apparently unhindered, allegedly even returning to his hometown, St. Petersburg, to pick up his confiscated guns. |
| Details: At the meeting, Putin gave his assessment of the company’s efforts on the battlefield in Ukraine, as well as its actions in the mutiny, while the Wagner fighters pledged their loyalty to the Russian leader, according to a Kremlin spokesman. |
| In the Arctic Circle: The fighting in Ukraine has disrupted a region in northern Norway that had thrived on cross-border trade and cooperation with Russia. |
 The main street in Highland Falls, N.Y., on Monday after flash flooding.Bryan Anselm for The New York Times |
| A ‘new normal’ of climate disasters |
| Flooding in New York; extreme heat in Arizona; a deluge in Vermont; a tornado in Delaware. This week, all of these events — and others like them across the U.S. — are happening at once, as climate change fuels extreme weather, prompting Governor Kathy Hochul of New York, a Democrat, to call it “our new normal.” |
| “It’s not just a figment of your imagination, and it’s not because everybody now has a smartphone,” said Jeff Berardelli, a meteorologist in Tampa Bay, Fla. “We’ve seen an increase in extreme weather. This without a doubt is happening.” |
| A powerful El Niño developing in the Pacific Ocean is poised to unleash additional heat into the atmosphere, fueling yet more severe weather around the globe this year. But as climate disasters become more commonplace, they may be losing their shock value. A 2019 study concluded that people would learn to accept extreme weather as normal in as little as two years. |
| What’s next: With emissions still rising globally, scientists are warning that there is only a short amount of time to drastically change course before the effects become truly catastrophic. |
| Related: Heavy rains and flooding struck large swaths of northern India, killing at least 23 people. |
 Desiree Martin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
| Spain rescued 86 migrants in the Atlantic Ocean, after an aid group reported that several vessels had gone missing.Israel’s far-right governing coalition moved forward early this morning with part of its plan to limit judicial powers. It is expected to unleash widespread street demonstrations.Mark Rutte, the Netherlands’ long-serving prime minister, said he would step aside after his governing coalition had collapsed.Six people were killed in a knife attack at a preschool in China’s southern Guangdong Province. |
| Other Big Stories |
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| The U.S. and the E.U. completed a deal to ensure that data from Meta, Google and scores of other companies can continue to be shared.Allegations that a prominent BBC host paid tens of thousands of pounds to a teenager for sexually explicit photos have fueled speculation — but few hard facts.Larry Nassar, the doctor convicted of sexually abusing dozens of young gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times by another inmate at a federal prison in Florida.Madonna postponed the North American leg of her world tour to focus on her health after a bacterial infection. |
| What Else Is Happening |
| A volcano in an uninhabited area on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula began erupting yesterday.Striking screenwriters picketed a shooting location for the “American Horror Story” franchise, one of a few American movie and television projects that are not on pause.A public library in Massachusetts last month received a book that was due nearly 120 years ago. (Luckily for the anonymous borrower, the late fee had been capped at $2.)With half of New York City’s office space vacant, what happens to all that unwanted furniture? |
| A Morning Read |
 Doug Mills/The New York Times |
| President Biden was 77 when he began his long-awaited dream job; King Charles III was 73. Both men prefer to ditch executive palaces for their respective retreats. And they share a passion for the environment — a topic that came up in a meeting between the king and the president at Windsor Castle yesterday. |
| As older men at the pinnacle of their careers, they are also united by their challenges — a public increasingly dubious of their institutions, and skepticism over whether they are the right people to lead them. |
| SPORTS NEWS FROM THE ATHLETIC |
| The soccer team that deliberately scored against itself: What motivated a bizarre act of self-sabotage. |
| A contentious underarm serve: How Davidovich Fokina lost a decisive fifth-set tiebreaker at Wimbledon to Holger Rune. |
| Takeaways from F1’s British Grand Prix: McLaren’s stunning result was no fluke, and Max Verstappen remains untouchable. |
| From The Times: At Wimbledon, line judges made incorrect calls that changed the trajectory of important matches. Is it time to give computers the job? |
| What to Cook |
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| Try this riff on pan con tomate. |
