Category: Europe
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
Read MoreInside 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
Read MoreOn 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
Read MoreBelgian 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
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreWill 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
Read MoreBen 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
Read MoreOverlooked 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
Read More‘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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