Eric Adams, Still the Mayor, Is Increasingly Out of Office

NYT

Par :Dana Rubinstein and Emma G. Fitzsimmons

18 novembre 2025 à 22:03

In the waning days of his term, Mayor Eric Adams is spending a significant portion of his time far from New York City.

In the midst of a four-day trip to Israel, Mayor Eric Adams announced that he would next head to Uzbekistan.

With Trump in Office, a Transgender Trailblazer and American Diplomat Seeks Refuge Abroad

NYT

Par :Ernesto Londoño and Erin Schaff

18 novembre 2025 à 15:59

Robyn McCutcheon, the first American diplomat to come out as transgender, helped to shape personnel and foreign policy at the State Department. The country she served doesn’t feel like home anymore.

Ms. McCutcheon embraced her boyfriend, John Quinn, for the last time before she left the country.

Rule Breakers review – rousingly feelgood real life story of Afghan girls’ robotics team

The Guardian

Par :Phuong Le

17 novembre 2025 à 08:00

This story of emancipated young women escaping draconian social strictures brims with enthusiasm and features a cameo from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Based on a true story, Bill Guttentag’s rousing drama attests to the resilience of women who dare to dream despite draconian social strictures. The film follows Roya Mahboob (Nikohl Boosheri), a trailblazing coach and businesswoman in Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) who assembles a robotics team of Afghan girls for international competitions. The young dreamers hail from different walks of life but they all share the same zest for engineering. They face the same dangers too; in a country where women are not encouraged or even allowed to pursue higher levels of education, their quest for medals sees opposition from their own families as well as public scorn from conservatives.

Rule Breakers is at its most thrilling during the competition sequences, which splice together real-life documentary footage of the events with fictional re-enactments. (There’s even an appearance from Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a host.) A breathless enthusiasm thrums through the film, as the camera swirls around the young competitors, all energised by their love for science. These spaces are portrayed as a haven that encourages camaraderie rather than competitiveness, and in a world divided by military conflicts and war, they offer a utopiian vision of international collaboration and solidarity.

Kashmir is focus of arrests after Delhi car blast linked to ‘terror module’

The Guardian

Par :Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan in Delhi

15 novembre 2025 à 00:43

Investigators believe an explosion that killed 13 people may be linked to group operating in the disputed region

Police have carried out raids and made several arrests across the Indian region of Kashmir in the aftermath of a car explosion in Delhi that left 13 people dead.

On Wednesday, the Indian government confirmed it was treating the blast as a “terror incident” perpetrated by “anti-national forces”. The explosion took place outside one of India’s most significant monuments during rush hour on Monday evening.

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