| Warring groups in Sudan agreed to a seven-day cease-fire set to begin today, the first truce to be signed by both sides.The U.S. is entering an array of agreements to secure the critical minerals necessary for the transition to electric cars, but it’s uncertain whether the deals will succeed.Residents of the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna face a challenging recovery after devastating flooding that killed 14 people and left thousands homeless.At the G7 summit, countries wrangled over how to manage their climate commitments.A stampede at a soccer stadium in El Salvador killed 12 people. |
| From Opinion |
| Office workers hate the commute, not the office, Farhad Manjoo writes.Grieving the loss of her 14-year-old daughter to cancer, Sarah Wildman has seen a future stolen.In this video, Miki Katoni explores how homophobic groups in the Orthodox Jewish community wield fake science to prey on young gay people. |
| Rachel Connolly asks: Where did our culture of ratings and rankings come from, and how did it take over our lives?For Elise Loehnen, the life her mother might have had — one without children, and with more opportunities to realize her ambitions — ricochets within her own. |
| A Morning Read |
 Federico Rios Escobar for The New York Times |
| For thousands of Afghans, the American withdrawal from Kabul was just the beginning of a long, dangerous search for safety that has taken them halfway around the world and through the jungles of South and Central America. |
| These desperate, unfathomable journeys represent the collision of two of President Biden’s biggest policy crises: the hasty American withdrawal from Afghanistan and the record number of migrants crossing the U.S. border. |
| Lives Lived |
| The British writer Martin Amis, known for his caustic, erudite and bleakly comic novels, has died at 73. |
| SPORTS NEWS FROM THE ATHLETIC |
| Barcelona Femeni loses its first league game in nearly two years: Barcelona Femeni lost to Madrid CFF, 2-1, its first league defeat since June 2021. |
| How Pirelli seeks the balance of F1’s most vital variable: Pirelli is charged with producing tires that make for competitive racing. |
| From The Times: Brooks Koepka triumphed at the P.G.A. Championship, becoming the first member of LIV Golf to win a major title since joining the circuit. |
| SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICA |
 A sketch from Sechaba Maape at the Architecture Biennale. Sechaba Maape |
| African architecture on the cutting edge |
| The Architecture Biennale that opened on Saturday in Venice explores how cultures from Africa can shape the buildings of the future. |
| For the first time, the exhibition will have a curator of African descent, Lesley Lokko, and more than half of the Biennale’s 89 participants are from Africa or the African diaspora. |
| The work of Sechaba Maape, who was inspired by South Africa’s first nations and their connection to nature, is being shown in that country’s national pavilion. Globally, architecture has begun to trend toward biomimicry, in which the built environment emulates the natural one. African design, says Maape, has always done this through pattern and form. The response in Venice and on social media has been overwhelming, he said. |
| “Architecture should be the thing that instead of separating us from our home, the Earth, should help us feel more mediated, more connected,” Maape said. — Lynsey Chutel, a Briefings writer in Johannesburg. |
