Good morning. We’re covering more unrest in France and a Times investigation into the sinking of a migrant ship. |
 | | The police clashed with protesters along the Champs-Élysées in Paris on Saturday.Nacho Doce/Reuters |
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A weekend of protest in France |
France deployed 45,000 police officers across the country overnight Friday and Saturday, as violent riots convulsed multiple cities after the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old. The government said that about 2,000 people were arrested over two nights of demonstrations, with protesters burning cars, setting fire to buildings and lighting fireworks outside police stations. |
Saturday night was calmer than previous evenings, but two attacks aimed at civic leaders highlighted the tinderbox situation. One mayor said that protesters rammed a car into his home and then set the vehicle on fire, injuring his wife and one of his children. In a separate attack, the police said, rioters had tried to set fire to a car belonging to another mayor. |
The funeral: On Saturday, hundreds gathered in and around a mosque in Nanterre, a Paris suburb, to mourn Nahel M., the teenager who was shot and killed. Many saw themselves in the victim, a French citizen of Algerian and Moroccan descent. |
 | | An undated handout photo provided by the Greek Coast Guard shows the ship before it capsized.Hellenic Coast Guard/Reuters |
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Greece’s fatal inaction at sea |
Last month, more than 600 people died when a migrant boat, the Adriana, sank in the Mediterranean. A Times investigation using satellite imagery, radio signals, sealed court documents and more than 20 interviews with survivors and officials found that hundreds of deaths could have been prevented. |
The Greek authorities have repeatedly said that the Adriana was sailing to Italy. But the Times investigation shows definitively that the Adriana was drifting in a loop for its last six and a half hours. |
Survivors said that passengers called for help and that some tried to jump aboard a tanker that had stopped to give out drinking water, my colleagues report. These accounts contradict Greek claims that the migrants did not want to be rescued. Instead, as panic rose, the Greek government treated the situation like a law enforcement operation, not a rescue. |
A hellish class system: The passengers collectively paid as much as $3.5 million to be smuggled to Italy. Survivors said Pakistanis were at the bottom of the ship; women and children were in the middle; and Syrians, Palestinians and Egyptians were at the top. Only 12 Pakistanis, out of at least 350, survived. The women and young children went down with the ship. |
Context: E.U. authorities often postpone rescues out of fear that helping will embolden smugglers to send more people on ever flimsier ships. As European politics have swung to the right, each new arriving ship is a potential political flashpoint. |
 | | In Kabul’s snooker halls, young men in jeans regularly yell “nice shot” in English.Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times |
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U.S. influences endure in Kabul |
Since the Taliban toppled the Western-backed government nearly two years ago, most vestiges of the U.S. nation-building effort in Afghanistan have been erased. But the cultural legacy of two decades of American occupation lives on in snooker halls, video game dens, coffee shops and bookstores. |
The enduring influence is most striking in Kabul, which became a hub of international attention after the U.S. invasion. Now, across Afghanistan, women are barred from high schools and colleges. But in some cafes in the capital, they can still listen to music and even mingle with men, in defiance of verbal edicts from the Taliban. |
Takeaway: For some members of the young urban generation, these cafes and stores are an escape from the reality of a country being remade by the Taliban government, which often feels more foreign to them than the Western-backed administration did. |
 | | Polio is still prevalent in Pakistan and Afghanistan.Samiullah Popal/EPA, via Shutterstock |
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- Gavi, which provides vaccines to developing countries, approved a polio shot that could help to eradicate the disease and prevent its resurgence.
- The Facebook account of Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia appears to have been deleted after he threatened political opponents with violence.
- Australia has drafted a plan to protect the southern cassowary, an emu-like bird that plays an important role in the ecosystem.
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- Russia launched drone attacks on Kyiv for the first time in nearly two weeks, Ukrainian officials said.
- The counteroffensive is moving slowly: It took Ukrainian soldiers days of fighting to retake just one tiny village.
- Analysis: The Wagner private military company’s revolt may have spooked Xi Jinping, China’s leader, and may lead him to hedge his close relationship with Russia.
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 | | Men of Ainu heritage fix a fishing net. Chang W. Lee/The New York Times |
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Over a century ago, the Ainu — an Indigenous group in Japan — lost the right to fish for salmon in a Hokkaido river. But a group representing them has sued the government to reclaim fishing rights, four years after Japan legally recognized the Ainu as the nation’s Indigenous people. Some see the fight as an effort to restore a last vestige of a decimated culture. |
Rahul Mishra’s new collection |
 | | Rahul Mishra at his atelier in Noida, India.Saumya Khandelwal for The New York Times |
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The designer Rahul Mishra will show his collection at Paris Haute Couture Week today, three years after he became the first Indian designer to do so. The theme for his show is “We, the People,” and it centers the embroiderers of his pieces, many of whom live in rural areas. There are even figurines of artisans sewn into the clothes. |
Mishra regularly designs for celebrities. In April, he made headlines for dressing the actor Zendaya in a shimmery blue sari at the opening of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Center in Mumbai. But weddings are a core part of his business. He calls them “red carpet” events for people who aren’t celebrities, especially in Indian culture, where weddings often span multiple days and require many outfits. |
 | | Chris Simpson for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Heather Greene. Hawaii-style Sherbet |
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That’s it for today’s briefing. See you tomorrow. — Amelia |
P.S. The Times won two awards from the Asian American Journalists Association. |
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