• 02/13/2025

Italians Respond to Pope’s Slur by Taking Francis to Pride

New York Times At Saturday’s celebration in Rome, Pope Francis’ image was on cardboard cutouts adorned with flower necklaces. People came dressed as the pope, wore papal hats and said that there was never too much “gayness.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/world/europe/rome-gay-pride-pope-francis.html

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Inside the Chechen Units Helping to Fight Russia’s War

New York Times After hundreds of years of enmity with Russia, Chechens are deploying to Ukraine to fight Moscow’s war. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/world/europe/chechnya-russia-ukraine-war.html

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On Bloomsday, Celebrating ‘Ulysses’ and Female Creativity

New York Times To help honor 100 years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” an all-women Irish festival refocuses the annual re-enactment of the novel’s wanderings around the character of Molly Bloom. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/arts/bloomsday-women.html

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Belgian Campus Protests Over War in Gaza Take Different Tone

New York Times Pro-Palestinian student activists at one Belgian university have borrowed from the U.S. playbook of encampments and slogans. The results, however, have been starkly different. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/world/europe/campus-protest-belgium-gaza.html

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The Greens Are Dead. Long Live the Greens!

New York Times Europe’s climate change-minded parties performed poorly in the European Union elections. Is the once ambitious European green movement over, or could its electoral crash launch a rebirth? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/world/europe/the-greens-are-dead-long-live-the-greens.html

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The Greens Are Dead. Long Live the Greens!

New York Times Europe’s climate change-minded parties performed poorly in the European Union elections. Is the once ambitious European green movement over, or could its electoral crash launch a rebirth? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/world/europe/eu-elections-green-parties.html

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Will Lewis Is Said to Have Used Stolen Records as Editor in U.K.

New York Times Years before becoming the Post’s publisher, Will Lewis assigned an article based on stolen phone records, a former reporter said. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/world/europe/will-lewis-records-uk-editor.html

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Ben Vautier, Artist Whose Specialty Was Provocation, Dies at 88

New York Times A core member of the anti-art movement Fluxus, he died by suicide hours after the death of his wife of 60 years. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/arts/ben-vautier-dead.html

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Overlooked No More: Lorenza Böttner, Transgender Artist Who Found Beauty in Disability

New York Times Böttner, whose specialty was self-portraiture, celebrated her armless body in paintings she created with her mouth and feet while dancing in public. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/arts/lorenza-bottner-overlooked.html

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‘We Need to Unite’: Protests Against the Far Right Are Held Across France

New York Times A newly formed left-wing coalition called on demonstrators to stop Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party from taking power in upcoming elections. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/world/europe/france-protests-far-right.html

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