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Aujourd’hui — 20 mai 2024NYT

Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s President, Is Dead at 63

20 mai 2024 à 06:48
The hard-line Shiite cleric was seen as a possible successor to Iran’s supreme leader. Mr. Raisi’s death comes at a moment of turbulence for a country facing a deepening conflict with Israel.

© Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times

Political analysts described Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s president, as a loyal facilitator of the will of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Bruce Nordstrom, Who Helped Lead His Family’s Retail Empire, Dies at 90

Par : Glenn Rifkin
20 mai 2024 à 01:54
Though he was the company’s president, he opted for joint leadership with family members as they made Nordstrom, starting as a string of shoe stores, into an international fashion retail brand.

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Bruce Nordstrom in 2019. He was a grandson of the company’s founder, who started with a shoe store in Seattle in 1901.
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Hochul Visits an Ancestral Home, 3,000 Miles From the Governor’s Mansion

Par : Claire Fahy
20 mai 2024 à 01:07
After meeting the pope and the mayors of Rome, London and Dublin, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York paused to reconnect with her past.

© Claire Fahy/The New York Times

Gov. Kathy Hochul was warmly welcomed by about 100 people in Spillane’s Bar in County Kerry, with many there claiming some relation to the governor.
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Biden’s Morehouse Commencement Speech Draws on Themes of Manhood and Faith

19 mai 2024 à 23:04
The president’s appearance at the historically Black college in Atlanta drew some respectful but noticeable protest over U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

© Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times

“What is democracy when Black men are being killed in the streets?” President Biden asked the crowd at Morehouse College on Sunday. “What is democracy when a trail of broken promises still leave Black communities behind?”
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How to Apéro Like the French

17 mai 2024 à 18:09
Rebekah Peppler shines a spotlight on a beloved French tradition that you can try at home.

© Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Rebecca Jurkevich.

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Civilian Prosecutors Rejected Evidence in 9/11 Case That Military Calls Crucial

16 mai 2024 à 17:11
The revelation sets in stark relief the decision by military prosecutors to seek to include the evidence, which has opened the door to years of litigation over confessions by the men accused of plotting the attacks.

© Erin Schaff/The New York Times

Military prosecutors at Guantánamo took over the Sept. 11 case in 2012, but have not been able to get it to trial.
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Alarmed by Climate Change, Astronomers Train Their Sights on Earth

14 mai 2024 à 09:00
A growing number of researchers in the field are using their expertise to fight the climate crisis.

© David Maurice Smith for The New York Times

Penny Sackett, former director of the Australian National University’s Mount Stromlo Observatory, just outside Canberra, in the remains of the observatory, which was destroyed in a 2003 wildfire.
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Hier — 19 mai 2024NYT

U.S. and Europe Move Closer to Using Russian Assets to Help Ukraine

19 mai 2024 à 21:54
Finance ministers from the G7 nations are hoping to finalize a plan ahead of the group’s leaders meeting next month.

© Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said the most promising idea was for Group of 7 nations to issue a loan to Ukraine that would be backed by profits and interest income that is being earned on Russian assets held in Europe.
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Still Without Power, Houston Residents Struggle to Stay Cool

19 mai 2024 à 21:50
As stifling heat settled over the city, the local electricity provider said most service would return by late Sunday. But hard-hit areas could remain dark for days longer.

© Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle, via Associated Press

The Rev. Elias Lopez reading by candlelight during Sunday morning mass at All Saints Catholic Church in Houston. A storm on Thursday left the church without power, which has yet to be restored.
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Congolese Army Says It Foiled a Coup Involving Americans

Par : Declan Walsh
19 mai 2024 à 21:22
The U.S. ambassador said she was “very concerned” that Americans may have participated in what officials of the Democratic Republic of Congo called a failed coup attempt early Sunday.

© Samy Ntumba Shambuyi/Associated Press

Security forces blocking streets on Sunday in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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U.S. to Withdraw All Troops From Niger by September

Par : Eric Schmitt
19 mai 2024 à 20:33
The announcement spells out the terms of a pullout that the Biden administration unveiled last month and comes after a military junta ousted Niger’s president last July.

© Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times

About 1,000 U.S. military personnel are spread across two bases in Niger and will leave the country by Sept. 15, the U.S. and Nigerien governments announced on Sunday.
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