Innholdsfortegnelse for 06/30/2017 i Newsweek International

London—Muslims pray in the Finsbury Park area of north London after a man drove a van into pedestrians near a mosque in the early morning on June 19. The van mowed into a group of worshippers observing the holy month of Ramadan. One man died at the scene, and at least 10 others were injured, all of them Muslim, according to police. The driver, 47-year-old Darren Osborne, was arrested. Police said they are treating the attack as an act of terrorism aimed at Muslims, making it the fourth confirmed or suspected terrorist attack in the United Kingdom in three months.…

St. Paul, Minnesota—Supporters of Philando Castile embrace on June 16 after a jury acquitted the police officer who shot and killed him. A school cafeteria worker, Castile was pulled over for a broken taillight last summer, and the officer thought he matched the description of a robbery suspect. A dashboard camera recorded Castile saying he had a gun in the car and was licensed to carry it. The officer instructed him not to reach for it, and Castile tried to assure him he was just going for his ID. The officer fired seven times, and Castile’s girlfriend live-streamed the aftermath on Face-book, sparking further uproar over police shootings of African-Americans.…

IF THEY CAN AVOID DETECTION FOR THE FIRST 48 HOURS, SQUATTERS CAN AVOID CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. VERONICA and her three small children live in a modernist building in a quiet, working-class Barcelona neighborhood. The apartment is perfect for the young family, except for one thing: They are living there illegally. Veronica, who declined to give her last name for fear of eviction, is among the thousands of people squatting in vacant apartments throughout Spain. Before Veronica became a squatter, she and her children slept in two single beds in a cockroach-infested room she rented in a working-class neighborhood. “There was no space,” she says, “not even for a cot. I was so stressed.” Stressed enough, she adds, that she was willing to break the law and move into a vacant apartment…

THE MEETING WAS APPARENTLY JOVIALTHOUGH WE HAVE TO TAKE THE RUSSIANS’ WORD FOR IT. ON MAY 10, DONALD TRUMP RECEIVED RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEY LAVROV AND SERGEY KISLYAK, MOSCOW’S AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES, IN THE OVAL OFFICE. “‘Kislyak’ turns out to be a Russian word for ‘I forgot.’” But the American president barred the White House press corps from the meeting. Footage released by the official Russian news agency, Tass, showed the three men joking and laughing, and according to leaked accounts of the meeting, Trump bragged that he had “just fired the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was crazy, a real nut job.” The reason? “I faced great pressure because of Russia,” Trump reportedly told his visitors from Moscow. “That’s taken off.” Trump was clearly…

“JUNO TRAVELED FOR FIVE YEARS BEFORE REACHING ITS DESTINATION.” JUNO, THE SPACECRAFT sent by NASA to Jupiter, has delivered its first images—and they are not what astronomers were expecting. These new views challenge long-held assumptions about our solar system’s largest planet, continuing the groundbreaking path plowed by several recent astronomical discoveries. Researchers involved with the mission say we are looking at “a whole new Jupiter.” Jared Espley is the program scientist for Juno, handling communications among the mission team members. He has been involved with the project for more than a decade. Here, Espley talks about the new findings and why understanding Jupiter matters. What does your work with Juno entail? I help the scientists and engineers communicate to colleagues at headquarters and vice versa. I’m a scientist spokesman between…

Havana—Last year, U.S. President Barack Obama came to the Cuban capital “to bury the last remnant of the Cold War.” On June 16, his successor, Donald Trump, stirred up the decades-old conflict. In a speech in Miami’s Little Havana, the president announced he was “completely” nullifying Obama’s landmark deal with the Castro government. In reality, Trump’s move merely restored some restrictions on Americans traveling to or doing business on the island. In Havana, however, many felt the two countries were moving in the wrong direction.…

TODAY, IT MIGHT SEEM LIKE THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP IS STRONG, BUT ITS POWER IS DWINDLING. THE FOOTHILLS of the Spin Ghar mountain range, two dozen miles south of Jalalabad in the borderland between Afghanistan and Pakistan, were once home to hundreds of olive plantations. For tens of thousands of acres, there used to be farms clustered along the banks of the Nangarhar Canal, a monumental hydroelectric irrigation project completed in the 1960s, when Afghanistan was safe and liberal enough to form a regular stop on the hippie trail from Europe to India and the Far East. By the turn of the new millennium, however, more than 20 years of continuous warfare had almost destroyed the canal’s capacity to pump water to the groves, all but killing what had once…

KABADDI IS NOW THE SECOND MOST POPULAR SPORT IN INDIA AFTER CRICKET. IT COMBINES ELEMENTS OF TAG, RUGBY AND CAPTURE THE FLAG. THIS SUMMER, as many as a billion TV viewers will tune in to watch India’s hottest new game: not cricket, not soccer, not basketball but something little known in the West called kabaddi. The sport combines elements of tag, rugby and capture the flag and was invented centuries ago in south India. It was first exhibited in the 1936 Berlin Olympics but never became an official Olympic sport. That hasn’t hindered its popularity in India: The Pro Kabaddi League, which is on the eve of its fifth season, starting in July, has more Indian fans than any sport besides cricket. Professional sports have never been as popular in…

EACH YEAR, more than 700,000 Americans suffer myocardial infarction, aka a heart attack. Thanks to medical advances, there are myriad ways for a doctor to get the blood properly pumping and save a person’s life. A cardiologist might give a patient medication to clear or loosen blockages. Or a doctor might insert a catheter to remove the clot, or place stents in the artery so it stays open. These interventions have vastly improved survival rates, but they don’t heal the damage caused by a cardiac event. The heart is really just one big muscle, and trauma to any muscle does some damage, which becomes scar tissue. Scar tissue on the heart means it functions far less optimally, which eventually leads to heart failure. Short of a transplant, there isn’t a…

THE FILMMAKER EDGAR WRIGHT was born in the English countryside, but his brain is pure Hollywood, so saturated with cinema history that he could pass as a backup to the Internet Movie Database, should some of his movies’ comically apocalyptic crises come to pass. Wright has turned that deep movie geekery into a very particular brand of smart, funny, gleefully violent and unexpectedly good-natured films, each a pitch-perfect, multi-hyphenate mashup, including the rom-com-zom(bie) Shaun of the Dead, the village-green-preservation-society-conspiracy-cop-thriller Hot Fuzz and the live-action-videogame-comic-book-adaptation-romcom Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. At 43, he still looks like the boy wonder who launched his career at age 19 with a homemade Western parody, A Fistful of Fingers, which led to a job directing comedy shows on the BBC (which, coincidentally, all ended up…

PIONEERING VIDEO artist Bill Viola is concerned with nothing less than life and death, evident in the titles of his pieces: Heaven and Earth, Man in Nature, Chapel of Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures. Such ambition can yield pretension, but at its best, his unique fusion of the conceptual and visual is truly transcendent. Yet despite countless solo shows and numerous awards, Viola’s work has never been laid out in full—until now. Beginning June 30, Spain’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao will present a major retrospective, “really the peak of our exhibition experience,” says his wife and longtime collaborator, Kira Perov. The retrospective covers a period just before Viola and Perov first met, in 1977—when video was still a primitive novelty—up to the present, illustrating just how much the 66-year-old artist’s…

FOR VISITORS, CONEY ISLAND IS A ZONE OF INSTANT GRATIFICATION. PLEASURE. THAT, HISTORICALLY, has been the promise of the boardwalk where New York City’s B train stops. Not the kind that lasts. That would be too much to ask. But the kind delivered by that first bite of a Nathan’s hot dog. Or the moment before you see the sideshow mermaid is actually a salmon tail stitched to a dead monkey. Or the interlude after the photographer has snapped you in fancy dress with someone you hardly know, and you’re waiting for things to develop. This is what Coney Island means to visitors, who come to escape the gasoline fumes and hot concrete of Manhattan. It’s a zone of instant gratification. For those who have known it during the winter…

Coimbra, Portugal—Firefighters rest during a wildfire in central Portugal on June 18. The fire killed more than 60 people over the weekend, many of them burning to death in their cars as they drove on a stretch of road through the forest. The fire expanded into five separate fronts because of strong winds, extreme heat and lack of humidity, and thousands of firefighters were still battling the fire on the 19th.…

BY HIS THIRD YEAR ON THE JOB, DEAN HAD BEEN SUCKED INTO THE UNDERTOW OF SCANDAL THAT EVENTUALLY DROWNED THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION. IT’S DIFFICULT for any lawyer to represent someone who is prone to impulsive decisions, self-incriminating statements and potentially corrupt entanglements. But when that someone is the president, your legal advice takes on exponentially more scrutiny and weight. Which is why Don McGahn, the White House counsel, has one of the hardest jobs in Washington. A 48-year-old election law expert, McGahn has faced plenty of heat for his involvement in almost every controversy with the Trump administration. He was the initial interlocutor with acting Attorney General Sally Yates when she reached out to warn of then–national security adviser Michael Flynn’s potentially compromising conversations with the Russian ambassador. He was…

IT IS ONE OF THE MOST POIGNANT IMAGES OF MOURNING IN MODERN TIMES, AND PERHAPS ONE OF THE CRUELEST: A 12-YEAR-OLD PRINCE HARRY, HEAD BOWED AND FISTS CLENCHED, MARCHING IN THE FUNERAL PROCESSION BEHIND HIS MOTHER’S COFFIN. “IS THERE ANY ONE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY WHO WANTS TO BE KING OR QUEEN? I DON’T THINK SO.” He, along with his older brother, Prince William; his father, Prince Charles; his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh; and his maternal uncle, Charles Spencer, walked slowly through the heart of London on September 6, 1997. Seven days earlier, the beautiful, charismatic and unpredictable Princess Diana had died in a car crash in Paris. She was 36. Her funeral was nearly 20 years ago, but Harry’s recollection of that tragic day can still overwhelm him.…

 MEAT LOAF’S classic song “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” will soon seem downright prehistoric—a tune from back when people had to sneak sex in parked cars. In the age of autonomous vehicles, experts are worried that we’ll be having all kinds of sex in moving cars. Randy teens might order a driverless Uber SUV with tinted windows for a spin around town. An office worker could take full advantage of the long morning commute with the spouse—or with the neighbor’s spouse. We can only hope Daimler-AG anticipated this development when in 2014 it registered a trademark for a driverless auto service it calls—kid you not—Car2come. (Perhaps they should’ve had a native English speaker in the room at the time?) WHO GETS TO KNOW THAT YOU TAKE DAILY TRIPS TO THE…

FROM THE FIRST SHOTS of mist drifting past trees dripping with Spanish moss, Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled moves with a languid, hypnotic menace. Most gothic melodramas seem to take place in a hothouse. This film takes its character and pace from the humid Southern air that slows everything and reduces the humans trapped inside to the helpless conviction that the relief they’re waiting for will never arrive. And yet, at 93 minutes, this streamlined version, based both on Thomas Cullinan’s 1965 novel and Don Siegel’s 1971 film, is over before you know it, leaving you a little dazed, as if you’d woken abruptly from under a spell. Set in a girls’ boarding school in 1864 as the Confederacy realizes it’s going to lose, the story is about the sexual tensions…

AS FOOD MARKETERS have long known, we eat with our eyes. But this book by art historian Susan Bright shows there’s more to food photography than eye candy or food porn. The compendium of images from the 1840s to the present day is part social history, taking in humor, aspiration, sex and taste, while also telling the story of photography. “Eating is one of the most base, visceral and profane acts,” Bright observes in Feast for the Eyes . In this spirit, we see Weegee’s 1940 image of a young man poised to cram a waterfall of spaghetti into his open mouth; Martin Parr’s famished swimmers at a fast-food stand in the 1980s; and shots from Peter Menzel’s 2005 photojournalism project, Hungry Planet, in which families in…