Good morning. We're covering a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping and Roger Federer's retirement. |
 | | President Vladimir Putin, left, of Russia, and Xi Jinping, China's leader, at their meeting Thursday.Pool photo by Alexandr Demyanchuk |
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China's support for Russia's war wavers |
As he met with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Uzbekistan yesterday, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, acknowledged China's "questions and concerns" about Russia's war in Ukraine, suggesting that Moscow lacks the full backing of its biggest, most powerful partner on the world stage. |
Rather than put on a show of Eurasian unity against the West, the two leaders struck discordant notes in their public remarks. "We highly appreciate the balanced position of our Chinese friends in connection with the Ukrainian crisis," Putin said. Xi made no mention of Ukraine at all. |
Nearly seven months after his invasion began, Putin is finding himself in increasingly daunting political straits. On the battlefield, Russia has lost more than 1,000 square miles of territory in Ukraine this month, and at home, Putin is facing unusual criticism from some supporters over the war. The West continues to ratchet up sanctions against the Kremlin. |
Statement: China said it was "willing to work with Russia to demonstrate the responsibility of a major country, play a leading role, and inject stability into a turbulent world." To experts on the Chinese government, it sounded like an implicit rebuke. |
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 | | Giorgia Meloni, center, who would be the first woman to lead Italy, posed for a photograph with a supporter in Sardinia this month.Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times |
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The hard-right Italian politician Giorgia Meloni, whose party has post-Fascist roots, is the favorite to become prime minister after elections this month. Known for her ferocious speeches slamming gay-rights lobbies, European bureaucrats and illegal migrants, she would be the first woman to lead Italy. National elections are scheduled for Sept. 25. |
Now she is balancing on a high-stakes wire: persuading her hard-right base of "patriots" that she hasn't changed, while seeking to convince international skeptics that she's no extremist — and that Italy's mostly moderate voters trust her and her party, the Brothers of Italy, so they should, too. Her support in polls has risen from 4 percent in 2018 to 25 percent. |
Meloni, whose campaign slogan is "Ready," has become a staunch supporter of NATO and Ukraine and says she backs the E.U. and the euro. But global markets and the European establishment remain wary, given her inflammatory past remarks and gushing support for Viktor Orban of Hungary, Marine Le Pen of France and illiberal democracies in Eastern Europe. |
Sweden: The rise of the far-right Sweden Democrats to become the country's second-largest party in last week's elections seemed inevitable. But it still had the ability to shock. |
 | | King Charles III, Prince William, Princess Anne, Prince Harry and Prince Andrew following the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II in London on Wednesday.Pool photo by WPA |
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Princess Anne's rising star |
Princess Anne, now 72, is 16th in the line of succession to the British throne. But that understates her influence: The only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II is a trusted adviser to her brother, King Charles III, and is popular with the public. Anne is famously one of the hardest workers in the royal family, often logging more than 400 public events a year. |
Though she is not technically the most senior female royal — she is outranked by Charles's wife, Camilla, the queen consort, and Princess Charlotte, the 7-year-old daughter of Prince William — her mother's death gives Anne new status as a senior female figure in the House of Windsor. |
The new king will rely on his sister, who is known as the Princess Royal, to keep up her busy schedule of public duties in a slimmed-down royal family. She is also likely to advise him on delicate family matters, like how to handle their younger brother, Prince Andrew, who has been in a kind of exile since the disclosure of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sexual predator. |
Life story: Anne has competed in the 1976 Montreal Olympics as an equestrian; suffered a failed first marriage to Mark Phillips, also an Olympic equestrian; settled into a stable second one, with Timothy Laurence; and survived a kidnapping attempt in 1974, telling the gunman who ordered her out of her car, "Not bloody likely!" |
Arrangements: Anne was on hand for her mother's final hours at Balmoral Castle in Scotland and then accompanied the coffin on a six-hour trip to Edinburgh. The processions, mourning and commemorations that have followed the queen's death will culminate on Monday with her funeral at 11 a.m. London time at Westminster Abbey. |
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"It could last three minutes or three hours," Chris Dzierman, a bridge painter in San Francisco, said as he looked out toward the horizon. "It's fog. It's got a mind of its own." |
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The state of England's squad: With a World Cup just two months away, here we are. Some big names, like Marcus Rashford, who hasn't kicked a ball for England since his fateful penalty miss in the Euro 2020 final, and Jadon Sancho, miss the cut as the World Cup looms. Is there any way back? And what of the surprise inclusions? Let's dig into what it all means. |
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"I am 41 years old; I have played more than 1,500 matches over 24 years," Federer said on social media. "Tennis has treated me more generously than I ever would have dreamed, and now I must recognize when it is time to end my competitive career." |
Federer said injuries and surgeries had taken their toll on his body. He will continue to play, he said, but will no longer compete on the ATP Tour or in Grand Slam tournaments, like Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. His final competitive matches will be next week in London. See photos from his career. |
"His anticipation and court sense are otherworldly, and his footwork is the best in the game," David Foster Wallace wrote in an appraisal of Federer's game in 2006. "All this is true, and yet none of it really explains anything or evokes the experience of watching this man play." |
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That's it for today's briefing. Thanks for joining me. — Natasha |
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