Australia and New Zealand win their first World Cup matches
The first matches of the Women’s World Cup showcased the development and promise of ladies’s soccer — but additionally a few of the sport’s persistent challenges.
The co-host international locations every started the event with 1-0 wins. New Zealand beat Norway in entrance of the greatest crowd ever to see a girls’s soccer recreation in the nation. “We put so much pressure on ourselves because it wasn’t just about winning a game, it was about inspiring our entire country,” Ali Riley, the New Zealand group captain, stated.
Australia then beat Ireland regardless of the absence of its greatest star, Sam Kerr, who was injured the night time earlier than the match. She will miss not less than two video games, the group introduced. The event has been marred by knee accidents which have sidelined virtually a dozen high gamers.
New Zealand capturing: Hours earlier than the World Cup began, a gunman killed two folks at a building web site about three miles from the stadium in Auckland. The gunman was additionally killed, the police stated.
Sweden stated no embassy employees have been harmed. Later in the day, two protesters exterior Iraq’s embassy in Stockholm kicked round copies of the Quran and stomped on a duplicate of Iraq’s flag. In response, Iraq severed diplomatic relations.
Details: Yesterday’s protest was staged at the urging of Muqtada al-Sadr, an influential Shiite cleric, who stated that Sweden was “hostile” to Islam.
Free speech? Sweden has struggled with whether or not to permit protests involving the burning of the Quran, which have heightened diplomatic tensions throughout the nation’s bid to affix NATO.
Assault video highlights India’s ethnic conflicts
A violent video went viral in India on Wednesday, bringing renewed consideration to bloody ethnic clashes in the northeastern state of Manipur, the place two communities have basically been at struggle over entry to authorities advantages.
In the video, two girls have been assaulted and paraded bare down a avenue by a mob. It took greater than two months for phrase of the surprising sexual assault to unfold, partly as a result of the web in the area had been shut down — an more and more widespread tactic used to limit the circulation of knowledge in India.
The assault shocked the nation, additional infected tensions and introduced renewed consideration to a battle that has left greater than 130 folks lifeless and over 35,000 displaced. It additionally led to Prime Minister Narendra Modi making his first public comments about what he referred to as a “shameful incident.”
Details: The mob raped one girl and killed her brother as he tried to guard her, in response to a police grievance. Many in the mob have been Meitei folks, who type a slender majority in Manipur. The victims have been from a group of individuals often called Kukis.
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One man, whose final golden had simply died, made the journey anyway. “I’m an addict,” he stated, “and this is where I come to get me fix.”
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Barbenheimer is right here: Brace your self
The second is lastly upon us, moviegoers: In one nook, we’ve “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb.” In the different, we’ve “Barbie,” Greta Gerwig’s Day-Glo feminist-magical realist tackle Mattel IP.
Our critic, Manohla Dargis, reviewed them each. She discovered Christopher Nolan’s complicated, vivid portrait of Oppenheimer to be an excellent achievement in formal and conceptual phrases. And Gerwig figures out “Barbie,” Manohla writes, by “vibing on joy, tapping into nostalgia, and, for the most part, dodging the thorny contradictions and the criticisms that cling to the doll.”
Hype apart, the actual check is the field workplace: Both movies open in the U.S. in the present day. The toy-based comedy is anticipated to attract $100 million this weekend, and the biopic about half that. How do you select between these two chisel-cheeked midcentury marvels? Take our quiz.
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That’s it for in the present day’s briefing. Enjoy your weekend! — Amelia
P.S. Natasha Frost, who doesn’t communicate Yiddish, wrote about the joys and challenges of reporting on a Yiddish-only gathering exterior Melbourne, Australia.
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