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We’re covering reopening day for some visitors in Europe and the Caribbean, far-right protests in France and Britain and the growing power of tech giants.
Most of Europe will reopen today
Europe will begin laying out a tentative welcome mat today — and in some cases, tomorrow — with internal borders lifting for visitors in many European countries and a few Caribbean islands. In most places, Americans aren’t on the invite list.
Countries like Greece, Croatia and Portugal have already started reaching out to tourists, as have Caribbean island nations like St. Lucia. But tourism remains banned across much of Africa and many parts of South America. In Asia, Japan and Vietnam have maintained travel bans.
France has also accelerated reopening, allowing restaurants and cafes in Paris to fully reopen today. All of the mainland will go into a “green zone” — a return to a pre-crisis way of life.
In other news:
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In St. Petersburg, Russia, where about 500,000 people live in communal apartments with at least half a dozen people, self-isolation is hardly an option. At least 12 cities will skip military parades President Vladimir Putin set for June 24 to bolster his image.
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For many women in Europe seeking abortions, the closure of borders has added obstacles for those in countries with strict abortion regulations, like Poland, to seek the time-sensitive procedure elsewhere.
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President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil hailed hydroxychloroquine as a godsend while railing against quarantine measures, contributing to a coronavirus crisis with the highest daily death toll in the world.
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When a Chinese manufacturer swept in to save Volvo, the Swedish carmaker, it was welcomed. A decade later, an upcoming merger has incited a debate over Sweden’s — and in turn the European Union’s — engagement with China.
Here are the latest updates and maps of the outbreak’s spread.
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Far-right protesters emerge in Britain and France
Thousands of people rallied against police brutality and racism in European cities over the weekend, but far-right demonstrators also emerged for the first time — particularly in London — leading to some violent confrontations.
After counterprotesters clashed with the police in London, Prime Minister Boris Johnson denounced far-right attacks on the police as “racist thuggery.”
In Paris, far-right activists unfurled a banner reading “White Lives Matter” at a rally where 15,000 people demanded justice for Adama Traoré, 24, who died in 2016 after being arrested by the police.
Context: Counterprotesters have added complexity to an already tense situation in Britain and France, where the police have resisted demonstrators’ demands, arguing that instances of racism by their officers have been isolated episodes.
Statues: Mr. Johnson said it was “absurd and shameful” that the word “racist” was scrawled on a Winston Churchill statue. Many historians acknowledge that the wartime leader expressed racist views. And Bristol is reckoning with its past after a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston, who helped build the city, was torn down.
Tech giants are getting even bigger
The global economy is reeling from a pandemic-induced recession, but the largest tech companies — providing ever more essential online services — are flush with billions of dollars.
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are aggressively placing new bets on a future in which they will be bigger and more powerful than ever.
Details: Facebook announced its largest investment in an outside business in April, a $5.7 billion stake in the Indian telecommunications company Reliance Jio. Last month, Facebook bought the search engine and database company Giphy for an estimated $400 million.
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Bob Dylan, in his own words
The American music icon rarely gives interviews, so this one with the historian Douglas Brinkley brings us up to speed on his thoughts about songwriting, George Floyd, the coronavirus, his new album “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” and more.
Mr. Dylan, a Nobel laureate, is 79, but said he’s not thinking about his own mortality: “I think about the death of the human race. The long, strange trip of the naked ape.”
Here’s what else is happening
Libya mass killings: At least eight mass graves have been discovered near Tripoli, prompting the United Nations to call for an investigation into possible war crimes.
Bollywood death: Sushant Singh Rajput, 34, a prominent actor praised for his screen presence, was found dead in his home in Mumbai on Sunday. The Mumbai police said the actor died by suicide.
Snapshot: Above, a spirit house in Bangkok. Such structures are common throughout Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia, although the architecture differs by country. “If you take care of the spirits,” said one builder, “they will take care of you.”
French soccer: Ligue 1 is the only one of Europe’s major soccer leagues to cancel its season. What nobody yet understands is why, or even who made the decision.
What we’re looking at: The latest cover of The New Yorker, for which the artist Kadir Nelson created both a powerful image and a lesson on the history of violence against black people in America.
Now, a break from the news
Cook: Yogurt and feta lend creaminess to crunchy sugar snap peas with dill.
Watch: Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods” is a “long, anguished, funny, violent excursion into a hidden chamber of the nation’s heart of darkness” that “isn’t like anything else,” according to our critic A.O. Scott.
Read: “The Art of Her Deal” brings Melania Trump into slightly better focus. Written by Mary Jordan, a reporter with The Washington Post, the book details new information about this unconventional first lady and her influence on President Trump.
Our full At Home collection has lots more ideas on what to read, cook, watch and do to make time spent safely at home more fun.
And now for the Back Story on …
How to fix policing in America
Since 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement has made police violence a pressing issue, and its members have sought to make the police more accountable for misconduct. The killing of George Floyd in police custody shows how far the U.S. has to go.
We brought together five experts and organizers to talk about how to change policing in America. Here’s an excerpt from their discussion, which was featured in The Times Magazine.
You’ve tracked police killings and nonfatal shootings around the country. What have researchers found?
Sam Sinyangwe, a founder of We the Protesters, which created a database that maps police killings, and Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence: In 2013, when the Black Lives Matter protests began, we didn’t have the data to understand what policy interventions could address the problem of police violence. Now we do, and the data nationwide show that about 1,000 people were killed by the police in 2019, which is about the same number killed each year going back to 2013. The overall numbers haven’t gone down. That’s because in suburban and rural areas, police killings are rising.
But if you look at the 30 largest cities, police shootings have dropped about 30 percent, and some cities have seen larger drops. In some of these cities, like Chicago and Los Angeles, activists with Black Lives Matter and other groups have done a lot of work to push for de-escalation, stricter use-of-force policies and greater accountability.
What else does it take to prevent more of these deaths?
J. Scott Thomson, who served as the police chief in Camden, N.J., from 2008 to 2019 and was the president of the Police Executive Research Forum from 2015 to 2019: Within a Police Department, culture eats policy for breakfast. You can have a perfectly worded policy, but it’s meaningless if it just exists on paper.
At the Police Executive Research Forum, we released a survey in 2016 that found that agencies spend a median of 58 hours on training for recruits on how to use a gun and 49 hours on defensive tactics, but they spend about only eight hours on de-escalation and crisis intervention.
To change the culture around the use of force, you have to have continuous training, systems of accountability and consequences.
What do you want to see happen next?
Alicia Garza, the principal of Black Futures Lab who helped coin the phrase #BlackLivesMatter and helped found the Black Lives Matter Global Network: Most immediate, we need accountability for the death of George Floyd.
Increasing the charges to second-degree murder for Derek Chauvin, and also charging the other three officers involved, was really important. Most of the time, there is unrest, and then there is a quick move to convene a grand jury, and people think there is no way that they couldn’t hold these officers accountable.
Time and time again, as in the cases of Mike Brown and Eric Garner, grand juries have decided not to indict. So the elemental first step is to show that law and order applies equally to the police.
That’s it for this briefing. See you next time.
— Isabella
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