Innholdsfortegnelse for 08/04/2016 i Newsweek International

Lahore, Pakistan—Pakistani Christian women mourn a victim of the suicide bombing that killed at least 70 people and injured more than 300 others at a park in the city on Easter Sunday, March 27. Dozens of children were among the dead. The Pakistani Taliban’s Jamaat-ur-Ahrar faction, which once declared loyalty to the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was aimed at Christians, though many Muslims were also killed. It was the deadliest attack in Pakistan since a 2014 massacre of 134 schoolchildren in the city of Peshawar.…

Portland, Oregon—Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders faces off with a bird during a rally at the Moda Center on March 25. The Vermont senator dominated caucuses in the Pacific Northwest over Easter weekend, gaining more than 70 percent of the vote in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. “We knew things were going to improve as we headed west,” Sanders told supporters in Madison, Wisconsin, which holds its primary April 5. That state will be a critical test for both Democratic candidates ahead of New York’s primary on April 19.…

Average age of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Election Day 2016 Average age of Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy on Election Day 1960 When it comes to historic potential, it’s hard to beat Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump: She would be the first female president, he the first to have defended his penis size on national TV. But Trump, 69, is also running to be the oldest first-term president in U.S. history—and Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, is only about a year behind him. (Bernie Sanders, at 74, would be older than both of them should he beat the odds and wind up on the ballot in November.) If the general election comes down to Trump vs. Clinton, it’ll be the oldest such contest in U.S. history, their ages…

“WHAT YOU SEE IN ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS IS 'BRITAIN IS HOPING TO GET THE ITALIANS OUT OF THE COUNTRY.'” ALFIO EMANUELE FRESTA, a 21-year-old student at England’s University of York, came to the U.K. from Sicily in 2013, hoping to build a life in a country he thought of as welcoming, diverse and filled with opportunities in his chosen discipline: computer science. “I wasn’t aware of a referendum. I wasn’t aware of the possibility of a referendum,” he says. “From what I knew at the time, EU nationals were treated equally everywhere in the EU, equally to British citizens in Britain. I quickly found out that this isn’t always the case.” As Britain prepares for a referendum on its membership in the European Union on June 23, Fresta is one of…

“I WOUND UP WRITING ABOUT SOMETHING MUCH DEEPER, ABOUT SOMETHING THAT FEEDS ME.” IN THE YEARS before Padma Parvati Lakshmi Vaidyanathan, the daughter of an immigrant nurse from Chennai, India, became Padma Lakshmi, the glamorous and unflappable Top Chef host who tells cook-contestants to please pack their knives and go, she was an unsuccessful actress trying to make a career in Los Angeles. Her only respite during those days of casting calls, auditions and many rejections were the dinner parties she threw, where fellow industry stragglers would gather in her apartment to snack on coconut chicken and chickpea tapas. Word of the “model who ate and cooked”—and the legendary dinner parties she threw—reached Miramax studio head Harvey Weinstein, and soon Lakshmi’s acting aspirations gave way to an entirely different career,…

HIS HOUSEKEEPER INFORMED ME MR. BIRLEY WAS UNABLE TO COME TO THE PHONE BECAUSE HE WAS “BUSY RELAXING.” WHEN I FIRST heard Mark’s Club had been refurbished, I was pleased—but also a little alarmed. Mark’s Club is so discreet you might miss it. It occupies a handsome townhouse on Charles Street at the bottom of London’s Berkeley Square, but there is nothing to indicate that this is anything other than a rather smart private residence. I have a particular fondness for the place, since I was introduced to it by its creator, the late Mark Birley. A perfect blend of luxury and comfort, there was none of the off-putting air of newness about it. Perhaps that was why it was such a favorite of the queen mother—the last time I…

Brussels—A girl adds her own message to the hundreds of others expressing love and grief on the walls of a public square the day after suicide bombings that killed 35 people and injured more than 300. Twin blasts rocked Zaventem airport just after 8 a.m. on March 22, and about an hour later, a bomb exploded in the Maelbeek metro station, near the headquarters of the European Union. Three bombers died in the attacks, and authorities released footage of a fourth suspected attacker who fled the airport without detonating his bomb. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks.…

ANYONE SURPRISED by the recent murderous attacks in Brussels has not been paying attention. Per capita, Belgium is Europe’s hotbed of young Muslims who travel to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) and then return home, often ready to kill. But these European residents are a different kind of extremist. They aren’t your dad’s Al-Qaeda and aren’t really even ISIS; pretending they are ignores the reality of the threat and provides ISIS with a propaganda coup it does not deserve. Many of these new-age killers were small children when the World Trade Center fell in 2001 and have spent much of their lives watching major wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Syria. Their knowledge of Islam is limited; they are more like jihadi hipsters than dedicated…

THE ONLY BENEFIT TO THE U.S. FROM THE MASSIVE SURGE OF CHINESE IMPORTS IS THE LOW PRICE OF GOODS SOLD AT WAL-MART AND ELSEWHERE. FOR FIVE YEARS, the young man has worked the rolling mill that churns out slab after slab of high-strength steel products bound for auto mills and large construction sites across the country. His paycheck has risen slowly but steadily, and two years ago he bought a three-bedroom house in a solidly middle-class suburb for himself and his family. And though the steel industry now suffers from overcapacity and is consolidating, he has little fear that his job will be affected. The company he works for is huge and profitable, and the mill in which he works is state of the art. Cai Jinrong, in other words,…

“PEOPLE SEE [JAMIE VARDY] AS ONE OF THEIR OWN. THEY SEE HIM SOMEHOW RIGHTING A WRONG.” In late February, I made the two-hour journey north from my home in London to witness what some have started to call a miracle. The procession of supporters wearing blue scarves and replica shirts heads through the streets of Leicester toward the King Power Stadium. King Power is a Thai company that runs duty-free shops and employs more than 7,000 people. The company, along with some business partners, also owns Leicester City Football Club, a team that hasn’t come close to winning the top division title in English football since it came second in 1929. When the Thai-led consortium bought the team in 2010, it seemed rather like a vanity project for the wealthy…

YOU COULD STITCH TOGETHER GIFS TO CONVEY YOUR MESSAGE WITHOUT USING ACTUAL LETTERS IN THE ALPHABET AT ALL. DONALD TRUMP is our brains on GIFs. Many people who are thoughtful and analytical have a hard time understanding the appeal of Trump’s empty but crowd-roiling provocations. But think about the smartphone-driven explosion of GIFs in the past six months. You’ve probably seen those three-second video loops pop up on Instagram or Twitter. If you’re under 30, you might traffic in GIFs all day long. This year, GIFs are turning into an industry and becoming a whole new language, one that is entirely about emotion and devoid of facts or even a smidgen of context. See? Just like a Trump rally. Technology changes the medium, and the medium changes us. GIFs certainly…

THEY BECAME RENOWNED NOT JUST FOR THEIR LIVE SHOWS BUT FOR WHAT THEY, PARTICULARLY JAGGER, WORE TO PERFORM THEM. LONDON’S SAATCHI Gallery is preparing for something big. On April 5, doors will open to its latest show, “Exhibitionism: The Rolling Stones.” The project has been three years in the making, with a budget of $5.7 million, but the contents of the band’s first international exhibition have been a secret. Tantalizing snippets have been released to the media, yet no one knew quite what to expect. That is, until now. The exhibition’s lead curator, Ileen Gallagher, has told Newsweekwhat is contained within the show’s nine rooms that sprawl across two of the gallery’s vast floors. Fans will find themselves in a replica of the band’s first flat, then a typical recording…

Potocari, Bosnia-Herzegovina—Bida Smajlovic prays near a memorial for victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide on March 24, before watching a broadcast of the International Criminal Tribunal trial of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Smajlovic lost her husband, brother and dozens of other family members in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Karadzic was found guilty of killing 8,000 Muslim men and boys during that event, as well as of nine other charges of genocide, and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison.…

SERGEI PESTOV was a passionate drummer. In the mid-1970s, he was a founding member of the Soviet rock group Zhar-Ptitsa (Fire-Bird), thrilling fans of the country’s nascent underground music scene with his frantic solos. Although, like many Soviet and Russian musicians, he never made a living from performing, he continued to pound the drums whenever he got the chance. On September 4, 2015, Pestov, then 57, had just put down his sticks after a jam session in a converted garage in Dubna, a small town near Moscow, when police officers burst in. The exact details of what happened next are the subject of an ongoing legal dispute between Russian law enforcement officials and lawyers representing Pestov’s family. But what is not disputed is this: The following morning, Pestov’s wife, Irina,…

“[TURKEY]IS MORE LIKELY TO BE A DEATH TRAP THAN A PLACE OF SANCTUARY.” FOR AYLA AGIT, the deal signed in March between Europe and Turkey to stem the flow of migrants and refugees was a prayer answered. “Finally, we have a chance to get a new life in Germany!” says Agit, who was driven from her home this past October by fighting. The twist: Agit isn’t a Syrian refugee; she’s a Turkish citizen. Her hometown of Cizre was the scene of street battles between Kurdish militants and the Turkish army last year that left close to 200 dead. Now she and thousands of other internally displaced Turkish Kurds are planning to join the exodus to Europe. Under the deal, all Turkish citizens are to be granted visa-free travel, yet not…

BODIES LITTERED THE STREETS WHILE DENIAL AND CONSPIRATORIAL HEARSAY RAN FAR AND WIDE. GERTRUDE SIEH, a handsome 60-year-old woman with gray braids, was among the first in her community to enroll in a trial in January last year to test two Ebola vaccines. “There were rumors that we will get sick and become like a monster,” Sieh told me a year later as she sat outside her zinc house in Popo Beach, which lost 40 people in July 2014, when Ebola was burning through Liberia’s capital of Monrovia and its surrounding suburbs. Back then, monsters seemed real: Bodies littered the streets while denial and conspiratorial hearsay ran far and wide, and the international community had yet to wake up to the scale of the crisis. Since Sieh signed up for…

MINIATURE EIFFEL TOWERS, DISEMBODIED SKULLS MADE OF COLORED BEADS, AND STONE BUSTS EMERGE UNEXPECTEDLY FROM THE LOCAL VEGETATION. SHORTLY AFTER dawn, Christiaan Erasmus dons a cashmere poncho and steps into the clouds that envelop his mountain retreat. We are on one of the highest points of Swaziland’s Malolotja mountain range, along the country’s northwestern border with South Africa. The 51-year-old stands on a boulder and watches the mists recede. “Welcome to the Sultan’s Spiritual Retreat!” he exclaims in a cheerful Afrikaans accent. “Let’s get some coffee.” I follow him down the mountainside to the scattered huts that make up this remote retreat in Nkhaba, about 20 miles north of the capital, Mbabane. At 5,250 feet above sea level, there is a slight chill in the air even in the summer…