We’re covering Donald Trump’s court appearance, a rampage near Seoul and an astonishing temperature rise in the world’s oceans. |
Also, two men who were switched at birth rediscover their roots. |
 | | Donald Trump arrived in Washington D.C. yesterday to appear in court.Doug Mills/The New York Times |
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It was the third time in four months that he stood before a judge on criminal charges. |
 | | Victims were taken to nearby hospitals with severe wounds.Yonhap News Agency, via Reuters |
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Rampage near Seoul left 14 people injured |
At least 14 people were injured yesterday in a stabbing and car rampage in Seongnam, a city southeast of Seoul, officials said. Five of the victims were struck by a car that had driven onto a sidewalk, and nine others were stabbed with a knife, an official said. |
The episode is being treated as a “terrorist act,” the commissioner general of the National Police Agency said. The police in Seongnam did not respond to phone calls seeking details about the attack and the suspect or suspects. |
Context: Stabbings and car rampages are rare in South Korea. But this is the second mass stabbing in the greater Seoul area in less than a month, after an attack at a subway station in the city last month left one person dead and three others injured. |
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An astonishingly warm ocean |
Brutal heat waves have baked the world this summer and they haven’t been contained to land. Earth’s oceans are the hottest they have been in modern history, by an unusually wide margin. |
 | | The extradition of Yoo Hyuk-kee, center, comes after years of requests from South Korean prosecutors.Jamie McCarthy/WireImage, via Getty Images |
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 | | Mali’s interim president met on Wednesday with one of the Niger coup’s military leaders, in a photograph released by the Malian presidency. Office of the President of Mali |
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 | | Nasuna Stuart-Ulin; Alana Paterson both for The New York Times |
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One had a difficult childhood, made more traumatic by Canada’s brutal policies toward Indigenous people, while the other enjoyed a carefree upbringing, steeped in the Ukrainian Catholic culture of his adopted family and community. |
 | | The novelist Hao Qun.Tommy Kha for The New York Times |
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Telling forbidden stories in China |
In China, many writers are looking for ways to capture the everyday realities that the government keeps hidden — sometimes at their own peril. |
By the time the best-selling novelist Hao Qun left China, 36 of his friends — writers, scholars, activists and lawyers — had been detained or sentenced to prison. He risked incarceration himself to publish “Deadly Quiet City,” a nonfiction collection about the terrifying, Kafkaesque early days of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, where residents had been subjected to an unrelenting information-suppression campaign. |
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This juicy pastry crosses a peach cobbler with a caramel-coated apple tarte Tatin. |
That’s it for today’s briefing. Amelia Nierenberg will be back on Monday. See you next time. — Justin |
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