Australia and New Zealand won their first World Cup match
The first matches of the Women’s World Cup showcased the growth and promise of women’s soccer – but also some of the sport’s enduring challenges.
The co-host nations started the tournament with 1-0 wins each. New Zealand defeated Norway in front of the largest crowd ever to see a women’s football match in the country. “We put a lot of pressure on ourselves because it’s not about winning the game, it’s about inspiring our whole country,” New Zealand captain Ali Riley said.
Australia beat Ireland despite the absence of their big star Sam Kerr who was injured the night before the match. The team announced that he will miss at least two games. The tournament was marred by knee injuries, which sidelined nearly a dozen top players.
New Zealand Shooting: Hours before the start of the World Cup, a gunman killed two people at a construction site about three miles from the stadium in Auckland. Police said the gunman was also killed.
Sweden said no embassy staff were harmed. Later in the day, two protesters kicked copies of the Koran and trampled a replica of the Iraqi flag outside Iraq’s embassy in Stockholm. In response, Iraq severed diplomatic ties.
Details: Yesterday’s protest was held at the insistence of influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who called Sweden an “enemy” of Islam.
Freedom of speech? Sweden is grappling with whether to allow protests involving Koran burnings that have raised diplomatic tensions during the country’s bid to join NATO.
The video of the attack highlights India’s ethnic conflicts
A violent video went viral in India on Wednesday, bringing fresh attention to bloody ethnic clashes in the northeastern state of Manipur, where two communities are essentially at war over government benefits.
In the video, a mob assaults two women and parades them naked through the streets. It took more than two months for news of the shocking sexual assault to spread because the internet was shut down in the region – a more common tactic used in India to block the flow of information.
The attack shocked the nation, fueled further tensions and brought renewed attention to a conflict that has killed more than 130 people and displaced more than 35,000. This also led to Prime Minister Narendra Modi Making his first public comments About what he called a “shameful incident”.
Details: According to a police complaint, a mob raped a woman and killed her brother when she tried to rescue him. Most of the crowd is the Mighty people who have a narrow majority in Manipur. The victims were from a community of people known as Kukis.
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One man, whose last gold had recently died, made the trip anyway. “I’m an addict, and I’m here to fix myself,” he said.
Lives Lived: Dermot Doran, an Irish pastor, was the linchpin of the 1968 Biafran Airlift in Nigeria, one of the largest civilian humanitarian efforts in history. He died in 88.
Barbenheimer is here: Brace yourself
The moment is finally upon us, moviegoers: In one corner, we have “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s three-hour J. Biography of Robert Oppenheimer, “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” In another, we have “Barbie,” Greta Gerwig’s day-glo feminist-magical realist take on the Mattel IP.
Our reviewer Manohala Dargis reviews them both. She found Christopher Nolan’s complex, vivid portrait of Oppenheimer a masterful achievement in both formal and conceptual terms. And Gerwig is a “Barbie,” Manohla writes, “vibrating on joy, tapping into nostalgia, and, for the most part, avoiding the thorny contradictions and criticisms attached to the doll.”
Hype aside, the real test is the box office: both films open today in the US. The toy-based comedy is expected to pull in $100 million this weekend and the biopic about half that. How do you choose between these two chisel-cheeked midcentury wonders? Take our quiz.
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What to cook
This cucumber salad with roasted peanuts is easy to make, but far from basic.
What to watch
The second season of New Zealand’s apocalyptic comedy series “Creamery” is full of violent payback and brutal wit.
where to go
Copenhagen has innovative design, creative food and stunning architecture. Here’s how to spend a weekend in the Danish capital.
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Play a mini crossword and clue: ray of sunlight (three letters).
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That’s it for today’s briefing. Enjoy your weekend! – Amelia
PS Natasha Frost, who does not speak Yiddish, writes about the joys and challenges of reporting at a Yiddish-only gathering outside Melbourne, Australia.
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