Good morning. We're covering Queen Elizabeth II's funeral and the U.N. General Assembly in New York City. |
| The queen's coffin was moved from the gun carriage to a hearse before traveling on to Windsor.Andrew Testa for The New York Times |
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Britain buried Queen Elizabeth II |
The funeral closed with a more intimate service and private internment. Before the final hymn, the crown jeweler removed the imperial state crown, the orb and the scepter from the queen's coffin and placed them on the altar. The lord chamberlain broke his wand of office and placed it onto the coffin, a symbol of the end of his service, to be buried with the sovereign. |
Reflection: The queen's coronation and funeral have become the bookends of a generation, Alan Cowell, a contributor based in London, writes in an essay on her life. |
| Yoon Suk Yeol, president of South Korea, is trying to raise his profile by pursuing a new foreign policy agenda.Woohae Cho for The New York Times |
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U.N. General Assembly begins |
The 77th session of the U.N. General Assembly, the largest annual gathering of world leaders, began yesterday in New York City. Here's what to expect. |
The meeting will be the first in-person General Assembly in three years, after the pandemic restricted movements. But the mood is likely to be a somber one. Leaders will address the war in Ukraine, mounting food and energy crises and concerns over climate disruptions, such as the floods in Pakistan. |
"The General Assembly is meeting at a time of great peril," António Guterres, the U.N. secretary-general, said last week. |
Analysis: "This is the first General Assembly of a fundamentally divided world," said Richard Gowan, the U.N. director at International Crisis Group, a research group based in Brussels. "We have spent six months with everyone battering each other. The gloves are off." |
South Korea: Yoon Suk Yeol, the new president of South Korea, is expected to address the General Assembly today. Last week, he told our Seoul bureau chief that it had become necessary — even inevitable — for South Korea to expand its security cooperation with Washington and Tokyo as North Korea intensified its nuclear threat. |
Other details: Narendra Modi, India's leader, and Abiy Ahmed, the leader of Ethiopia, will also skip the meeting. The U.S. and Europe will most likely try to pressure Iran over the nuclear deal. And developing nations and the West will very likely spar over development aid. |
| Recent setbacks haven't deterred Russia from advancing on the eastern city of Bakhmut and claiming all of the Donbas Region.Tyler Hicks/The New York Times |
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Nuclear concerns rise in Ukraine |
Moscow damaged a hydroelectric station less than 900 feet (about 274 meters) from reactors at Ukraine's second-biggest nuclear plant. (The occupied Zaporizhzhia site is the largest.) Despite the close call, there was no damage to essential safety equipment at the plant, which remained fully operational, Ukraine's national nuclear energy company said. |
"A few hundred meters and we would have woken up in a completely different reality," a Ukrainian official said. Here are live updates. |
Details: Before the war, 15 working reactors at four nuclear power plants produced more than half of Ukraine's electricity, the second-highest share among European nations after France. |
- Senior officials from China and Russia announced joint military exercises and enhanced defense cooperation. It signals a strengthening partnership, despite Xi Jinping's apparent misgivings about the war in Ukraine.
- Ukraine is facing a severe glass shortage that will make it hard to fix shattered windows before winter.
- European manufacturing are furloughing workers and shutting down lines because of "crippling" energy bills.
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| An undated photo of the American engineer, Mark Frerichs.Charlene Cakora, via Associated Press |
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- In a prisoner swap with the U.S., the Taliban freed an American engineer in exchange for a tribal leader convicted of drug trafficking.
- The deaths of 27 people on a quarantine bus in China renewed an anguished debate over "zero Covid." Even in Tibet, where people live under repressive controls from the Chinese government, there are grumblings against lockdowns.
- Army helicopters in Myanmar shot at a school, Reuters reports, killing at least six children.
- Typhoon Nanmadol has killed at least two people in Japan, the BBC reports.
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| More than 1,000 residents were rescued across Puerto Rico.Ricardo Arduengo/Reuters |
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| Hundreds of thousands gathered in Washington, a day after Donald Trump took office.Ruth Fremson/The New York Times |
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In 2017, as American feminists came together to protest Donald Trump's election, Russia's disinformation machine worked to derail the Women's March, a Times investigation found. |
Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian American activist whose hijab marked her as an observant Muslim, became a central target. |
| "The Phantom of the Opera" will close a month after celebrating its 35th anniversary.Matthew Murphy |
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"The Phantom of the Opera" is the longest-running show in Broadway history. Based on Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel, this symbol of musical theater will drop its famous chandelier for the last time in February after 35 years, becoming the latest show to fall victim to the drop-off in audiences since the pandemic hit. |
The show, about a mask-wearing opera lover who haunts the Paris Opera House and becomes obsessed with a young soprano, is characterized by over-the-top spectacle and melodrama. A Times review in 1988 acknowledged, "It may be possible to have a terrible time at 'The Phantom of the Opera,' but you'll have to work at it." |
Speaking about the decision to end the show's run, the producer Cameron Mackintosh, said: "I'm both sad and celebrating. It's an extraordinary achievement, one of the greatest successes of all time. What is there not to celebrate about that?" |
By the numbers: On Broadway, the show has been seen by 19.8 million people and has grossed $1.3 billion since opening. —Natasha Frost, a Briefings writer. |
| Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Monica Pierini. |
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"The Lost City of Melbourne," a new documentary with a growing cultural cachet, explores the city's fraught architectural history. |
"The Rupture Tense," already on the poetry longlist for the National Book Award, was partly inspired by a hidden photo archive of China's Cultural Revolution. |
That's it for today's briefing. See you next time. — Amelia |
The latest episode of "The Daily" is on the U.K after the Queen. |
Natasha Frost wrote today's Arts and Ideas. You can reach Amelia and the team at briefing@nytimes.com. |
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