Innholdsfortegnelse for 29/04/2016 i Newsweek International

Rio de Janeiro—A boat bearing a banner that translates to “Dilma Out” passes by Brazil’s Copacabana beach on April 17. On public screens across the country, thousands of Brazilians watched the National Congress’s Chamber of Deputies vote to begin impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff; 367 of the 513 deputies voted in favor of ousting Brazil’s first female president over corruption charges, sending the proceedings to the Federal Senate. Rousseff has continued to maintain her innocence, but once the Senate agrees to consider impeachment, her presidency will be suspended for 180 days. Although her political survival now looks doubtful, several likely successors are also being investigated for corruption.…

Lesbos, Greece—Pope Francis discusses a child’s drawing during his tour of the Moria refugee camp on April 16. The pontiff and local religious leaders met with refugees in various campsites on this island, putting a spotlight on Europe’s controversial deal with Turkey to end the refugee crisis. Francis offered prayers for refugees who have died trying to cross the Mediterranean from Syria, Afghanistan and war-torn regions of Africa in hopes of reaching Europe. The pope invited 12 Syrian refugees to accompany him on his return flight to Rome, where they will be cared for by the Sant’Egidio religious community.…

“WE SHOULD TAKE THE CHALKENING INTERNATIONAL AND TRY TO GET IT DONE ON LIKE THE TAJ MAHAL.” “IF YOU’RE LISTENING right now, you’re one of the lucky ones that survived the Chalkening.” That’s how the fraternity-and-Southern-college-culture brand Old Row, which runs a website for shopping and discussion, opened its weekly podcast on April 6. The line, fit for an apocalypse movie, referred to a campaign by Donald Trump’s young supporters on college campuses. Their weapon of choice: chalk. In late March, after pro-Trump messages written in sidewalk chalk at Emory University in Atlanta triggered anti-Trump protests, the national organization Students for Trump instructed its members to carry out more chalkings. The idea apparently came from Dan Scavino, Trump’s social media director, who on April 1 posted on Twitter about what…

GEORGIA-PACIFIC WENT DOOR TO DOOR, DOLING OUT CHECKS IN EXCHANGE FOR SIGNED RELEASE FORMS. “LET ME GIVE you a sketch of the neighborhood,” Leroy Patton said as he put his car in park on the side of Lawson Road. He took a toothpick out of his mouth and used it to point to an empty house, an abandoned doll facedown in the weeds out front. The Lawson couple used to live here, Patton says; the street was named for them. “They’re dead from cancer and stroke.” He pointed to another property. “Down here is Pat. Her parents died from cancer back there, and now her husband’s sick too.” He turned to a long driveway lined with trees and junk cars. “And this here is my place. Ain’t nobody but me…

Cairo—Protesters call for Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s resignation on April 15, following his decision to hand over to Saudi Arabia a pair of Red Sea islands Egypt had held since 1950. Thousands here and in Alexandria expressed frustration about the country’s political state, chanting slogans from the 2011 Arab Spring and likening el-Sissi to ousted President Hosni Mubarak. The protests were some of the largest public demonstrations in Egypt since el-Sissi criminalized unapproved protests in 2013.…

“I’M AFRAID OF THE AFTERSHOCKS. I SLEEP BY THE DOOR SO I CAN RUN.” IT WAS A MIRACLE, the Nepalis say, that the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, which registered a magnitude of 7.8 and shook their Kathmandu Valley onto the world stage, happened on a Saturday morning. Throughout rural Nepal, children were in their home villages instead of away in the schoolhouses, and most everyone was out in the fields planting, picking, cooking and playing. When the ground rumbled on April 25, the people swayed, fell to their knees in the dirt and felt their hearts race as they looked out across the valleys and saw homes topple. When the shaking stopped, they ran through the switchbacks carved into the terraced hills to their stone-and-mud homes, most constructed at great cost…

DAYS BEFORE a Pennsylvania court planned to sentence him in 1996 to years in prison for molesting three children, Lynn Cozart—a middle-aged security guard—vanished. For years, investigators searched for him, but the case went cold—that is until 2015, when Pennsylvania state police sent Cozart’s mug shot to a newly established unit of the FBI called Next Generation Identification (NGI). Fueled by fears of another 9/11-style attack, the bureau signed a $1 billion contract with military contractor Lockheed Martin to develop NGI in 2008. Three years later, the program began a trial period, and it officially began in late 2014. Today, the FBI’s digital catalog of searchable “face photos” has ballooned to some 548 million pictures, the largest database of faces in history. It includes criminal mug shots; photos of suspected…

FOR THE PERPETUALLY ITINERANT COWBOY, A BELT BUCKLE WAS A TREASURE. CLINT ORMS, an American metalsmith and engraver, has made an art form out of keeping men’s trousers up. If you are the kind of person who is prepared to spend $50,000 or more on a belt buckle (starting prices hover just above $1,000), then you will no doubt be familiar with the Orms oeuvre. Orms’s father worked as a designer for a Western clothing company, and his grandmother was a seamstress. Her handiwork entranced him when he was a child. “Every time I went to her home, she was always tearing apart clothes and putting them back together. I was just fascinated with what it took to do that sort of work,” he says. “I’d do little jobs for…

Mashiki, Japan—Homes lie in ruin on April 17, one day after a powerful magnitude-7.3 earthquake and three days after a magnitude-6.2 quake struck the same region, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Dozens of the area’s mostly wooden homes crumbled; at least 42 people were killed, and nearly 250,000 were advised to leave their homes for fear of more earthquakes. It was an extremely active few days in the quake-prone Pacific Ring of Fire: Ecuador was hit by a magnitude-7.8 temblor that killed at least 350 people and injured 2,000.…

For the past century, the number of tigers roaming the Earth has declined precipitously. In 1900, for example, an estimated 100,000 tigers prowled the wilds of Asia, a number that had declined 97 percent by 2010. The big cats are killed primarily by poachers, who seek the animals for their skins, as well as body parts they can sell for use in traditional Chinese medicine, despite zero evidence of medicinal value. Habitat loss also takes a toll, as does conflict with encroaching humans. There’s finally some good news for these endangered animals: Their population has risen slightly. In 2010, there were an estimated 3,200 tigers in the wild. New estimates suggest that there are now just under 3,900. The increase has primarily been seen in India, Russia, Nepal and Bhutan,…

As you approach the northern Greek city of Kozani, which stands on a plateau surrounded by mountains, you start to see smoke—thick white clouds floating above the knotty shrubs and sun-dappled hills of Western Macedonia. This is the heart of Greece’s coal industry; the plumes come from the chimneys of power stations dotted around the region. When most Greeks think of Kozani, they think of coal. In the 1950s, the Public Power Corp. (PPC), now Greece’s biggest electric company, took over the mines here and brought prosperity to this poor, largely agricultural corner of northern Greece. Locals soon abandoned their traditional ways of making a living: saffron cultivation, marble production and fur-making. Mining was not easy, but the workers were well-compensated. The city’s businesses flourished. Those days are long over.…

THE 18-TO-24 DEMOGRAPHIC MAKES UP ONLY 10 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION BUT ACCOUNTS FOR 27 PERCENT OF ALL CRIMINAL ARRESTS. ON A RAINY MORNING in the fall of 1993, Antonio House made a choice he would come to regret. House, who had turned 19 just two months earlier, was a member of the Unknown Vice Lords gang on the South Side of Chicago; his job was to sell drugs for the Lords. When he showed up at his corner that day, a fellow gang member relayed a message from the boss to drive down to some nearby railroad tracks instead. Once House arrived, he realized he was being asked to be a lookout. In a decision that would alter the course of his life, he stuck around. A few moments…

“THE ADRIÀ BROTHERS ARE GREAT, BUT YOU NEED A LOT OF TECHNIQUE AND MACHINERY, AND WE ARE NOT LOOKING TO DO THAT.” FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS, Catalan cuisine was defined by the surreal genius of the cooks at elBulli, a seaside restaurant on Catalonia’s Costa Brava. With elBulli as their base, brothers Ferran and Albert Adrià became two of the most famous chefs in the world. The closure of elBulli in 2011 was international news. During his years at the restaurant, Ferran Adrià had become a master at using foams and culinary deconstruction to enhance flavor. My last meal at elBulli consisted of 49 plates, including his signature dish of small spheres that appear to be olives but in fact are olive oil encased in edible gum. And there were…