Good morning.
We’re covering a deepening China-U.S. feud as both countries battle new outbreaks, a deadly terrorist attack in England, and one correspondent’s 5,000-mile journey to say goodbye to her father.
China-U.S. feud over coronavirus heats up
China on Sunday temporarily suspended poultry imports from a U.S. slaughterhouse where workers were infected with the coronavirus, a day after President Trump blamed China for recent U.S. economic troubles, saying the country had “sent us the plague.”
As China battles an outbreak in Beijing, the U.S. has seen the number of daily new cases rise in 18 states across the South, the West and the Midwest. Seven states hit single-day case records on Saturday, and five others hit records last week. The country has seen more than 2.2 million infections, and more than 119,000 people have died — the most in the world on both counts.
Around the world, cases are rising rapidly. Reports of new cases began surpassing 100,000 a day in May, but surged past 176,000 over the weekend.
Here are our latest updates and maps on the outbreak.
In other developments:
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The British government said on Sunday it would seek greater powers to act against foreign takeovers of vaccine firms and other health-related businesses so that they do not threaten Britain’s ability to deal with a public health crisis like the pandemic.
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New York City has hired 3,000 disease detectives and case monitors for its contact-tracing program, but the effort has gotten off to a troubling start.
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Mr. Trump’s attempt to revive his re-election bid sputtered as he traveled to his first rally in months in Tulsa, Okla., where the crowd was smaller than expected and he delivered a disjointed speech.
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Before election, Belarus’s president turns on Russia
President Aleksandr Lukashenko, the longtime authoritarian leader of Belarus, is unexpectedly accusing his longtime ally Russia of election meddling.
Facing a surge of discontent at home before an election on Aug. 9, particularly over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Lukashenko is playing on anti-Russian sentiment to hold on to a 26-year reign — accusations he once would have directed at the West.
Details: On Friday during a meeting with officials in Minsk, Belarus’s capital, Mr. Lukashenko claimed that he had thwarted a revolution with the arrest of Viktor Babariko, a potential rival who once headed a Russian-owned bank. The European Union has called for his immediate release.
Context: A leaked poll from April showed that only about a third of the population trusts Mr. Lukashenko, a dismal rating for a leader who controls all traditional media in the country. Belarus has not had what independent observers consider a fair election since 1994.
Police call attack in England an act of terrorism
Three people died and several others were injured in a park in southern England on Saturday in a stabbing attack that was deemed a “terrorist incident” by the police.
The attack happened around 7 p.m. in the town of Reading. Eyewitnesses said a lone person walked into the park and began trying to stab people. Three of the injured were in a serious condition, the police said.
Counterterrorism units will be taking over the investigation. On Sunday, officials said that nothing suggested other people were involved and that the motivation for the attack was not certain.
Details: A 25-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder and remained in custody on Sunday. He is originally from Libya, according to an official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The British news media, citing unnamed government sources, reported that security services looked into him last year but found no evidence of a threat.
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How humans unleashed new diseases
It might have started like this: One afternoon last year, somewhere in the Chinese province of Yunnan, a hunter entered a limestone cave to catch some bats. Most of them probably ended up at a wildlife market next to other animals or at restaurants.
Regardless of the coronavirus’s precise trajectory, experts agree that Covid-19 is a zoonosis, a disease that jumps from animals to humans. Its transition, like those of Ebola, Lyme and AIDS, was made more likely because we have reconfigured ecosystems and destroyed habitats.
Here’s what else is happening
Iranian judge dies: The fugitive judge, who was wanted by Iran for corruption and by rights groups for torturing journalists, was found dead by apparent suicide on Friday at a hotel in Romania, Iranian officials said. Reporters Without Borders is calling for an investigation into the death.
Trump firing: President Trump’s dismissal of Geoffrey Berman, the federal prosecutor who had put Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer in prison and was investigating his current one, has prompted increased criticism that the president is purging his administration of officials whose independence could be a threat to his re-election.
Serbia-Kosovo: Past U.S. administrations have worked with European allies to help guarantee Kosovo’s security against Serbia. The Trump administration is pressuring Kosovo for a peace deal, sidelining the E.U. and ignoring Serbia’s erosion of democracy.
Snapshot: Above, a Spanish bullfighter in an empty bullring in Málaga, Spain. Bull breeders and matadors accuse the Spanish government of using the pandemic to try to end bullfighting, in line with the wishes of animal rights activists.
‘Save our Stilton’: With pubs and restaurants closed, the coronavirus has pushed the six producers that make Stilton, the famous blue cheese, to the edge — potentially deterring the next generation of cheesemakers.
What we’re reading: This article in Outside magazine. “The best part of my day over the past few months has often been a long (socially distanced, responsible) walk,” writes Anna Holland, an editor based in London. “I loved this beautifully written ode to walking.”
Now, a break from the news
Cook: This strawberry pretzel pie is wonderful and simple. Just before serving, toss the berries in sugar and pile them on top.
Taste: Riesling appears to be one of those wines that do not seem to move consumers in the way wine writers assume and hope. Our wine critic lays out 10 reasons you should give riesling another look.
Watch: Sushant Singh Rajput, who rose from Bollywood background dancer to leading man, died last week at age 34. Here’s a look at some of his best performances.
Listen: This week’s playlist put together by our pop critics features Aretha Franklin, Noname, Anderson .Paak, H.E.R. and others.
At Home has our full collection of ideas on what to read, cook, watch and do while staying safe at home.
And now for the Back Story on …
5,000 miles for a final goodbye
“It is every foreign correspondent’s nightmare: a family emergency when you are half a world away.”
For our Tokyo bureau chief, Motoko Rich, the call came last month. It was her 76-year-old father, who was dying from congestive heart failure. During the coronavirus pandemic, many people have been unable to make it to the bedside of their ailing relatives. She was one of the lucky ones. Here’s an excerpt from her story.
I was in Tokyo. He and my mother were in California. Suddenly, I was facing questions unique to the pandemic — whether it would be wise to travel, or whether I could forgive myself if I didn’t. If I did go, I wasn’t sure I could return to Japan because of an entry ban on many foreign nationals, including Americans.
In the end, I resolved to go. I applied for, and was granted, a humanitarian exemption from Japan’s entry ban.
The next day, I stepped into the nearly empty airport in Tokyo, where I felt like an alien arriving on Earth to find an entombed ruin of a dead planet.
My father had been officially sick with congestive heart failure for five years, but in truth he had needed a lot of care for at least a quarter of a century, after he had undergone open-heart surgery at age 50. For years, my mother made well-balanced meals catered to his diabetes and heart condition. His doctors told her they believed he had lived as long as he had in part because she had taken such good care of him.
On the night my father died, I was only a week into my self-isolation and had not received results from my coronavirus test, so my mother and I stayed masked on either side of the king-size bed. She crossed her arms over her chest in a sign of the hug we were afraid to exchange. I considered just taking the risk, but then thought: What if I test positive and I’ve just sobbed and snotted all over her?
Perhaps the guilt of an adult child with an aging parent is universal: We can never do enough. But it is doubly so when we live more than 5,000 miles away, and even more so during a pandemic that makes travel difficult.
That’s it for this briefing. Some advice from therapists. See you next time.
— Isabella
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