Good morning. We’re covering a stadium tragedy in Indonesia and elections in Brazil. |
 | | Soccer fans carried an injured man away from the stadium.Yudha Prabowo/Associated Press |
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An Indonesian stadium tragedy |
At least 125 people died when soccer fans rushed the field after a professional soccer match in Malang, Indonesia, on Saturday. Many were trampled. |
“If there wasn’t any tear gas shot into the stands, there would have not been any casualties,” one man said, adding that people had “panicked” and rushed to the field to save themselves. When he tries to sleep, he said, he still hears people screaming. |
Reaction: Rights organizations condemned the use of tear gas, which is prohibited by FIFA, soccer’s global governing body. One policing expert said that using tear gas, which is designed to disperse crowds, in secure areas where people have nowhere to go is “incredibly, incredibly dangerous.” |
Analysis: The combination of large crowds and aggressive policing can prove disastrous, writes Rory Smith, my colleague who covers soccer, in an analysis. When tragedies occur, he writes, “they tend to be the consequence not of fan violence but of failures of policing, security and crowd management.” |
 | | After a decade of overlapping crises, Brazilians lined up to cast votes yesterday. Dado Galdieri for The New York Times |
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Brazil votes in national elections |
Context: Bolsonaro has been casting doubt on the security of Brazil’s electronic voting system for months. On the eve of the election, his party did so again. He has, in effect, said that the only way he would lose is if the election were stolen from him. |
Climate: The future of the Amazon rainforest may be at stake. Deforestation of the world’s largest rainforest has hit 15-year highs under Bolsonaro, who has weakened environmental protections and wants the rainforest opened up to mining, ranching and agriculture. |
 | | Pakistani farmers tried to salvage what is left from a cotton field.Kiana Hayeri for The New York Times |
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Pakistan’s floods worsen debts |
Many are in sharecropping arrangements and already owed hundreds or thousands of dollars. Landlords offer farmers loans to buy seeds and fertilizer each planting season. In exchange, farmers cultivate their fields and earn a small cut of the harvest, a portion of which goes toward repaying the loan. |
Now, their summer harvests are in ruins. Unless the water recedes, they will not be able to plant the wheat they harvest each spring. Even if they can, the land is certain to produce less after being damaged by the floodwaters. |
Details: One 14-year-old recently waded through waist-deep water filled with snakes to pick cotton. “It was our only source of livelihood,” she said. In the hardest-hit regions, where the floods drowned villages, authorities warn that the waters may not fully recede for months. |
Analysis: As extreme weather events become increasingly common, the cycle is worsening. Pakistan’s floods were especially cataclysmic because of a combination of heavy glacier melt and record monsoon rains, which scientists say were both intensified by climate change. |
 | | Liu Jingyao filed a civil suit against Richard Liu. Lawyers said the parties had agreed to “set aside their differences” in order to avoid further pain and suffering. Caroline Yang for The New York Times |
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- Richard Liu, a Chinese billionaire, reached a settlement with Liu Jingyao, a former University of Minnesota student who had accused him of rape. The case has been seen as a landmark in China’s struggling #MeToo movement.
- North Korea launched two ballistic missiles into the ocean on Saturday, the country’s fourth test since Sunday of last week.
- Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that Prayuth Chan-ocha, the prime minister who took control in a 2014 coup, can stay in power. The decision is expected to revive the pro-democracy protests that rocked Bangkok in 2020.
- A suicide attack in Kabul on Friday killed at least 19 people, mostly young female students.
- The U.S. and 14 Pacific Island nations signed a broad partnership agreement last week designed to counter China.
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- Russian forces retreated from Lyman, a key Ukrainian city, one day after Vladimir Putin illegally declared control of the Donbas region. The loss further imperils the Kremlin’s grip on Donbas.
- Pope Francis appealed yesterday to Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, to end the war.
- Ukraine applied to join NATO. Yesterday, nine European leaders expressed support for the bid, which is likely to face hurdles.
- Each day, about 10,000 Russian men are trying to cross into Georgia to flee draft orders. “I do not support the war, and I do not want to go kill Ukrainians,” one said.
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 | | Damage from Hurricane Ian in Florida.Hilary Swift for The New York Times |
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 | | A line at a Covid testing site in Beijing in June.Kevin Frayer/Getty Images |
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My colleague Vivian Wang, a Times correspondent in China, described the grinding reality of life under Covid. People schedule lunch breaks around completing mandatory tests and buy second freezers to stock up on groceries for future lockdowns. |
“The disruptive becomes typical; the once-unimaginable, reality,” she writes. |
Several Asian destinations are loosening their Covid restrictions on international travel. Our Travel desk looked at how four destinations were preparing for the return of tourism. |
Kyoto, one of Japan’s most-visited cities, wants to bring back tourists but avoid Instagram-driven excesses. (“Kyoto isn’t a tourist city, it’s a city that values tourism,” the mayor said.) Koh Tao, a Thai island, is trying to balance tourism with an environmental focus. On the edge of Delhi, a contemporary art scene and a burgeoning cosmopolitan class are taking shape. And rural South Korea offers serene, unhurried nature. |
 | | Chris Simpson for The New York Times |
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Read your way through Rome. |
In “Bros,” a gay romantic comedy, a man who has sworn off relationships finds himself falling in love. |
That’s it for today’s briefing. See you next time. — Amelia |
The latest episode of “The Daily” is on Hurricane Ian. |
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