Female Afghans Erased From Public Life in Five Years of Taliban Rule
via NYT > World News Decrees restricting women’s rights to study, work, travel and act independently now threaten to damage Afghanistan permanently, experts say.
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Electric Thrills
via NYT > World News Electric motorcycle sales are surging in Pakistan, as wartime prices accelerate the pivot away from fossil fuels in the developing world.
Early-Onset El Niño
via NYT > World News The global weather disrupter appears to be taking a toll, and its peak could still be months away.
A Special U.S. Navy Squadron Photographed the Last Total Solar Eclipse in Spain in 1905
via NYT > World News Three American warships were sent to Valencia to capture pictures of the sun’s corona with a high-definition camera that would cost over $34,000 in today’s money.
A Rescue Effort After Colombia’s Earthquake
via NYT > World News Our reporter Genevieve Glatsky, who is based in Colombia, witnesses the rescue of a buried earthquake survivor in the city of Cali.
Deported from the U.S., Trapped in a Prison in Africa
via NYT > World News Roberto Mosquera, a Cuban immigrant who has lived in the U.S. since 1980 and completed a prison sentence in 1996, was arrested by ICE last year and sent to a prison in Eswatini, a country in Africa he’d never heard of. After a hunger strike, Mosquera obtained a phone and talked with Nicholas Casey of The New York Times Magazine, to share what is happening there.