Good morning. We’re covering Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and a typhoon moving across Japan. |
 | | Mourners have thronged the streets of London in recent days.Mary Turner for The New York Times |
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Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral |
Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral is today at Westminster Abbey. The service, which begins at 11 a.m. London time (6 p.m. in Hong Kong, 8 p.m. in Sydney) will end a 10-day period of official mourning in Britain. |
Dignitaries came from across the globe to pay their respects to Britain’s longest-serving monarch. A massive worldwide audience will watch. Tens of thousands will line up for the grand procession from London to Windsor Castle, where the queen will be buried. |
How to watch: The BBC will stream the procession on TV and on its website, where it will be available to watchers from around the world. The broadcast will be shared with international affiliates. In Australia, the funeral will be live on ABC. |
“The Queue”: For days, tens of thousands of people waited up to 24 hours to see the queen lying in state. Their individual acts of mourning commingled into a vast national expression of bereavement — and, to many, the ultimate expression of British democracy. |
Hong Kong: A memorial for the queen has given residents of the former British colony a rare platform for public, if quiet, political dissent. |
 | | Strong wind, heavy waves and rain lashed Miyazaki, a city in southern Japan, yesterday.Kyodo News, via Associated Press |
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Japan braces for a strong typhoon |
Typhoon Nanmadol brought torrential rain and the risk of destructive landslides to Kyushu, Japan’s southernmost main island. It is expected to traverse virtually the entire length of Japan over the coming days. |
Japan’s meteorological agency classified the storm as a “violent typhoon,” its most severe category. Heavy rain is the main safety concern, but high winds could cause powerful waves. CNN cited the agency as saying that the storm could cause unprecedented storm surges and “large-scale disaster.” |
Details: Officials said that some parts of Kyushu were expected to receive 20 inches (more than 50 centimeters) of rain or more, an amount not seen in the area in decades. |
Disruptions: About 190,000 households lost power. Kyushu’s entire bullet train service was suspended, and hundreds of domestic flights were canceled. By yesterday evening, a few injuries had been reported but no deaths. |
 | | Five female cheetahs and three males were chosen for their hunting skills, familiarity with humans and genetic profiles. Joao Silva/The New York Times |
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Seventy-five years ago, cheetahs went extinct in India. Their habitats had been destroyed, and they were hunted for sport. |
On Saturday, eight arrived on a flight from Namibia, part of an experiment to determine whether a top predator population can be restored. Despite some debate over whether the preparations have been adequate, many conservationists view the plan as crucial to protecting the species. |
The stakes are high. Cheetahs were once found in great numbers across Africa, Arabia and Asia, Now, scientists estimate that there are fewer than 8,000, down by half over the last four decades, and that they now live almost exclusively in Africa. |
“It is the only large mammal that India has lost,” the secretary of India’s National Tiger Conservation Authority said. “It is our moral and ethical responsibility to bring them back.” |
Details: The cheetahs will live in Kuno National Park, in the state of Madhya Pradesh. These were a gift from Namibia; India plans to spend roughly $11 million to translocate more until it has about 40. |
Background: The British cleared India’s forests before the end of their colonial rule, leading to cheetah habitat loss, CNN reports. Indian nobility also shot them for sport. |
Politics: The plan also reflects the nationalism of Narendra Modi. The prime minister welcomed the big cats on his 72nd birthday. |
 | | A strong temblor shook Taiwan for the second day in a row yesterday.Daniel Ceng Shou Yi/EPA, via Shutterstock |
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- A powerful earthquake killed at least one person in Taiwan yesterday.
- At least 27 people died in southwest China yesterday when a bus taking them to Covid-19 quarantine crashed, The Associated Press reports.
- China confirmed its first monkeypox case, CNN reports. Don’t touch foreigners, a top health official warned.
- At least 22 people died in a landslide in Nepal, Reuters reports.
- Gautam Adani, the richest man in India, is now wealthier than Jeff Bezos, NPR reports.
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 | | Russian rockets hit the center of Kramatorsk, a city in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk Province, the mayor said. Tyler Hicks/The New York Times |
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- In the south, Ukraine is pushing a counteroffensive in and around Kherson, the only regional capital under Moscow’s control, but there is no sign of a mass Russian retreat. Here are live updates.
- A mass grave with more than 400 bodies was found in the reclaimed city of Izium, Ukrainian officials said.
- Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, admonished Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, a day after Putin said that Xi Jinping, China’s leader, had “questions and concerns” over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
- Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. House Speaker, visited Armenia and condemned Azerbaijan over recent clashes, openly taking sides where American officials have been careful to mediate discreetly.
- Australia said it would not ban Russian tourists, Reuters reports.
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- Iran’s morality police detained a woman for allegedly violating dress rules. Her death in their custody has led to protests.
- Protests over Haiti’s economic misery have pushed the country near anarchy. Regional leaders described the crisis as a “low-intensity civil war.”
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 | | Wo Hop, a Chinatown institution, used to be open 24 hours. Now it closes at 10 p.m.Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times |
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“It’s hard to put your finger on,” said the owner of Katz’s Delicatessen, which recently returned to a 24-hour weekend schedule after the pandemic. “But it really feels like New York is, you know, sort of done with its PTSD in a lot of ways.” |
U.S. democracy faces twin threats |
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The U.S. has experienced deep political turmoil several times before over the past century. But each time, the basic dynamics of American democracy held firm. Now, David Leonhardt writes in an analysis, American democracy is facing two distinct threats. |
There is a growing movement inside one of the country’s two major parties — the Republican Party — to refuse to accept defeat in an election. Six Republican nominees for governor and the Senate would not commit to accepting this year’s election results. |
“There is the possibility, for the first time in American history, that a legitimately elected president will not be able to take office,” Yascha Mounk, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University who studies democracy, told David. |
And the power to set government policy is becoming increasingly disconnected from public opinion. Just look to recent sweeping but politically unpopular Supreme Court decisions, David notes, or the fact that two of the past four presidents have taken office despite losing the popular vote. |
 | | Kelly Marshall for The New York Times. Food Stylist: César Ramón Pérez Medero. Prop Stylist: Melina Kemph. |
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Milk and bread crumbs lighten these tender meatballs. |
“The Divider,” by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, details the “cartoonishly chaotic” Trump administration. |
That’s it for today’s briefing. See you next time. — Amelia |
P.S. The Times’s Travel desk won 10 awards from the Society of American Travel Writers. |
The latest episode of “The Daily” is on deep-sea mining. |
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