Time Magazine International Edition October 23, 2023

In the wake of Mahsa Jina Amini’s death, Iranian chess master Sara Khadem defied her country’s mandatory dress regulations during competition. Indian YouTuber Dhruv Rathee is facing threats for fact-checking trending topics on Indian social media for millions of his followers. Jonathon Heyward recently became the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s first music director of color and, at 31, the youngest current music director of any major U.S. orchestra. These are three of the individuals profiled in this fall’s class of Next Generation Leaders, the nine-year-old franchise made possible by our partnership with Rolex. Their stories continue to reshape for us what leadership can be. Through Next Generation Leaders, we explore influence in many forms, including artistry, athleticism, and activism. And we examine rising leaders breaking barriers in traditional realms of power…

Photograph by Joshua Kissi for TIME Photographs by Robin Hammond The interviews for the feature on youth in America in this issue (page 34) will be used to teach mental-health and social skills to teens and tweens via the nonprofit Youth Empowerment Group. Photograph by Gabriella Demczuk for TIME Photograph by Eyad Baba—AFP/Getty Images The news of war in Israel broke just as this issue went to press. We rushed the story about the attack into the magazine, accompanied by this digital-only cover. America’s top Latino leaders Beginning during Hispanic Heritage Month, TIME—in partnership with Nissan—will spotlight the most influential Latino leaders in the U.S. today. The initial group includes Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, author Elizabeth Acevedo, and baseball star Julio Rodríguez. Read the profiles at time.com/latino-leaders TALK TO US…

The obvious and intended point of reference for the shattering surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 was the 1973 October War, the devastating invasion that Arab armies launched precisely 50 years earlier, plus a day. It was the last time Israelis awoke to a life-changing assault that its intelligence apparatus had not seen coming, and also the last time they found themselves, officially, in a “war.” Another analogue might be the Tet Offensive, the 1968 Viet Cong surprise attack that changed the course of the Vietnam War. Like the Hamas assault out of the Gaza Strip, it broke out on the morning of a holiday and seemingly everywhere at once; it demonstrated capacities unforeseen in a guerrilla force; it briefly overwhelmed a far superior military; and it produced images…

The British Museum in London, frequently accused of displaying looted treasures, has solicited the public’s help in finding artifacts stolen from its collection over the years. Of some 2,000 items first reported missing in August and valued in the millions of pounds, 60 had been returned to the museum by late September, and 300 more were in the process of retrieval. STOLEN ITEMS The missing artifacts, which were not on public display, are dated from the 15th century B.C. to the 19th century, and include gold jewelry and semiprecious gemstones. The museum is working with the Art Loss Register, the world’s largest database of stolen art, and has established an email hotline for anyone with information to come forward. Some items were being sold on the e-commerce platform eBay, including…

Last September, Sam Bankman-Fried was described on CNBC as the “Michael Jordan of crypto.” Just over a year later, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX is on trial in a federal court in Manhattan in one of the most anticipated criminal proceedings of the year. FTX was a crypto exchange that allowed its users to buy, sell, and hold cryptocurrencies, and use financial mechanisms to bet on those tokens’ price movements. It collapsed in November 2022 following a rush of withdrawals, with the exchange unable to account for billions of dollars in customer funds. Upon filing for bankruptcy, FTX owed its top 50 creditors alone $3.1 billion. Federal prosecutors charged Bankman-Fried with fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and several other counts. Bankman-Fried, who has pleaded not guilty to…

APPOINTED EMILY’s List president Laphonza Butler by California Governor Gavin Newsom to complete Dianne Feinstein’s Senate term. WON The Nobel Prize in medicine by two scientists—Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman—on Oct. 2 for their research on mRNA, critical to developing COVID-19 vaccines. ARRESTED Duane Keith Davis, for murder, on Sept. 29; prosecutors say he ordered the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. WARNED People in France about a widespread outbreak of bedbugs in Paris, by the government. “No one is safe,” the city’s deputy mayor said on X on Sept. 29. SUGGESTED Potential ways for Catholic priests to bless same-sex unions, with major caveats, by Pope Francis in a July letter the Vatican published on Oct. 3. DIED Michael Gambon, who played Dumbledore in six of the eight Harry Potter…