Innholdsfortegnelse for 06/07/2019 i Newsweek International

Bharatiya Janata Party supporters hold smoke crackers on May 23 as they celebrate India’s general election results. Prime Minister Narendra Modi led his party to victory through a nationalist agenda and outreach to the poor, securing the first back-to-back majority in Parliament in decades. Although voters gave his right-leaning populism a resounding endorsement, critics and the Muslim minority continue to sound alarms about his Hindu-first platform.…

THE UNITED STATES IS WIDELY cited as the world’s foremost military power, but when it comes to asymmetrical warfare, the country has a spotty record. Infamous war games conducted nearly 17 years ago show that a maritime matchup against Iran would likely prove to be extremely deadly for the U.S. Navy. A new wave of tension between longtime foes Washington and Tehran emerged in early May with reports from U.S. officials that Iran was allegedly pursuing new missile activity off its shores. The Middle Eastern nation, meanwhile, prepared to commemorate the United States’ decision a year ago to pull out from the 2015 nuclear deal by stepping back from its own commitments to the historic agreement. Among the alleged threats were satellite photographs purporting to show small traditional sailing boats,…

GOOGLE CALLS IT THE “COPYRIGHT case of the decade.” “It” is the $9 billion copyright infringement suit Oracle filed against the search giant nearly 10 years ago. Oracle brought the case in 2010 after Google incorporated 11,500 lines of Oracle’s Java code into Google’s Android platform for smartphones and tablets. Android has since become the world’s most popular operating system, running on more than 2.5 billion devices. Google won twice at the U.S. District Court level. But each time, a federal appeals court overturned the verdict, ruling for Oracle. Now, Google is begging the Supreme Court to hear the case, and so are the 175 companies, nonprofits and individuals who have signed 15 friend-of-the-court briefs supporting Google’s plea. Here’s the pressing issue: How much protection do copyright laws give to…

To truly experience the people and culture of a country, there is no better place to visit than the local fresh food market. For centuries, these classic markets have been selling basic staples, as well as local delicacies, to residents and tourists alike and providing perfect snapshots of society. 01 La Merced Market Mexico City The largest food market in Mexico City is also one of the most delicious and bewildering. Piles of fried grasshoppers and crickets lie next to select cuts of meat, mounds of mole, cactus paddles, chiles and mangoes. It’s so large, there are professional guides. 02 Findlay Market Cincinnati Since 1852, merchants in Findlay Market have been selling farm-fresh produce, meats (including a local haggis-like creation called goetta) and cheeses. In the summer, the…

Health workers carry the coffin of an Ebola victim on May 16 in a densely populated region near the Ugandan border, where the number of people infected has steadily climbed. The Ebola outbreak began last August and is already the second worst in history, after the West African epidemic that killed 11,300 from 2014 to 2016. Despite an effective vaccine and major advances in treatment, health workers have struggled to fight the virus in a war zone. Armed militias have created a perilous security situation, locals mistrust responders, and misinformation flies. So far, Ebola has claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people in eastern Congo, a third of whom were children.…

Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation outside 10 Downing Street on May 24. The Conservatives’ embattled leader said that she would step down June 7, after President Donald Trump’s planned visit, and that it was in the “best interests of the country for a new prime minister” to tackle Brexit negotiations. Competition among Conservatives for her successor was already underway.…

Japan has long been known to westerners as the ‘Land of the rising sun’, but such is the rapid growth of the country’s real estate market in recent times that some may suggest that it’s high-time to give this moniker a revamp. ‘Land of the rising profits’, perhaps? A whimsical suggestion, maybe, but the country’s property and construction boom however is certainly no joke. Not when you consider that at the end of Q1 2018, Tokyo surpassed London as the world’s busiest real estate market, with investment volumes surpassing $9.1 billion. So what’s behind the sector’s (quite literal) rise? Well, the country’s macroeconomic stability and strong governance have played a major role. But another contributing factor can be neatly summed up in three little words: The Olympic Games. Yes, Tokyo…

ONE EVENING EARLIER THIS YEAR, AN OLD FRIEND and adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton sat down with the former president for dinner at a quiet Manhattan restaurant. Bill, the friend says, looked thinner and more tired than he had in some time. He is 72 now, 15 years on from open-heart surgery and the complications that arose from it. He was, the friend says, a “bit sad, and more than a bit angry.” The 2020 race for the White House was underway, and not many of the ever-expanding field of Democratic contenders had phoned him or come calling to discuss what it is like to run a presidential campaign. A lot of the contenders seemed to be scrambling to the left to satisfy the progressive wing of the party…

Palestinian families break their fast on May 18 beside a building destroyed in violence between Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza, and Israeli troops during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. More than two dozen have died in the clashes. President Donald Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner say an “economic workshop” will be held in late June in Bahrain to develop plans for investing in Palestinians and other Arabs as a way to reach peace.…

IN THE MIDDLE OF APRIL 2007, A SHORT, BALD and burly man with a limp and a cane walked into the West Wing of the White House. He carried a small briefcase with folders chaotically jutting out. The man showed his diplomatic passport. He was under the impression that he would be brought directly to the Oval Office for a private meeting with the president, but instead the guards were under orders to keep his name off the official visitor logs and clandestinely escort him to the office of national security adviser Stephen Hadley. Inside, two additional men were waiting: Hadley’s deputy, Elliott Abrams, and a surprise, Vice President Dick Cheney. The man the trio had gathered to meet was Meir Dagan, the renowned and feared head of the Mossad,…

ON BROADWAY, HILLARY AND Clinton bills itself as kind of a comedy. But given the way things turned out, the middle-aged, flawed heroine in fleece and slippers, shaking a metaphorical fist at fate, is pure tragedy. In Hillary, played by Laurie Metcalf, playwright Lucas Hnath created a character with a very modern challenge: a woman strangled by herself as a meme. “My understanding of a tragic hero is someone caught in an interlocking network of circumstances, some of which are the result of her actions, some of which are the result of the actions of others, some of which are the result of being born into an unfortunate time and place,” Hnath says. “And no matter what path she pursues to undo these circumstances, every path somehow leads to yet…

“I SOMEHOW WANT TODD TO KNOW THAT WITH ALL HIS HEARTBREAK, his life made a difference,” Oscar-nominated actress Laura Dern says of her latest movie, Trial by Fire, which opened May 17. The film tells the real-life story of death row inmate Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in 2004 for the arson murder of his three children, although the evidence used to convict him remains controversial. It’s not the first time Dern has helped bring a true story to the screen. In last year’s The Tale, she played Jennifer Fox, a documentary filmmaker who rereads an essay she wrote at age 13 that makes her question her childhood relationship with her coach. “In both films, there are the perpetrators whose damage we intentionally try to expose,” Dern says. “Here,…