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We’re glad to be back. | | | Today we’re covering Iran’s moves on uranium enrichment, the latest protest in Hong Kong and the outcome of the Women’s World Cup. | | | Iran said that it would soon breach the uranium enrichment limits set out in the 2015 international accord abandoned by the U.S., and would take additional steps to violate the deal in 60-day intervals unless international powers provided the sanctions relief the pact had promised. | | | The announcement, a week after the country surpassed the limit the deal set on the size of its uranium stockpile, inches Iran closer to the capacity the deal meant to forestall: the ability to produce an atomic bomb. | | | Context: The Trump administration has been seeking to force Iran to negotiate a new deal with stricter nuclear controls. | | | But Iran is seeking to pressure European powers to compensate for U.S. sanctions, which have slashed Iranian oil exports and crippled the country’s economy — and also starved it of resources for nuclear development. | | | Impact: The instability has threatened the oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, which accounts for 20 percent of the world’s supply. Our graphic takes a look at one month’s worth of tanker traffic there. | | | Related: In a series of leaked diplomatic cables that include assessments of American domestic politics and Washington’s treatment of Iran, Britain’s ambassador to the U.S. described President Trump as “radiating insecurity” and his administration as diplomatically “clumsy and inept.” | | | The scene on Sunday in Kowloon. Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times | | | On Sunday, tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Kowloon, a commercial area of Hong Kong popular among mainland shoppers. | | | The protesters aimed to explain their objections to Beijing’s increasing power in the territory directly to the visitors, to counter the heavily censored and skewed accounts of weeks of marches and civil disobedience that have circulated in the mainland’s official news media. They also wanted to distance themselves from the violence that had overtaken the protests last week. | | | Late Sunday night, the police and dozens of protesters clashed in nearby Mong Kok. | | | Quotable: “We would never be allowed to do something like this in the mainland,” said a first-time mainland visitor, Liu Li, 22. “Even if 100 people gather together, they would get detained.” | | | Star power: Few among Hong Kong’s celebrities have made public appearances at the huge protests of recent weeks, knowing that those who did lost access to the mainland market. | | | Protesters at a detention facility in Clint, Tex., last Thursday, demanding that the children being held there be freed. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times | | | Lawmakers return to Washington today after a weeklong recess, preparing to confront the accounts of squalor in detention facilities at the border with Mexico. | | | One run by Customs and Border Protection in Clint, Tex., has become the public face of the border chaos. A review of the center’s operations reveals that hundreds of children were housed there in cramped cells for weeks with no supplies to clean themselves. They sometimes slept on the floor, went hungry, and suffered through outbreaks of scabies, shingles and chickenpox. | | | The review shows that the agency’s leadership knew for months of the conditions. Its own agents raised the alarm. | | | How we know: Six reporters interviewed dozens of current and former Border Patrol agents; lawyers, lawmakers and aides who had visited the facility; and an immigrant father whose children were held there. | | | Rose Lavelle of the U.S. celebrates with Emily Sonnett and their teammates after beating the Netherlands 2-0 for their fourth World Cup championship. Richard Heathcote/Getty Images | | | The Netherlands team fought the Americans harder, and kept even with them longer, than any team at this World Cup. The score was 0-0 at halftime. | | | Payday: The U.S. players collect about $250,000, including bonuses, for winning the championship, but additional paydays are growing in real time. The total pales in comparison to payouts in the men’s tournament. | | | Analysis: The U.S. team’s self-celebration has raised eyebrows. The team has come to inspire awe, if not affection, writes our soccer columnist. | | | Photo illustration by Joan Wong | | | The kingdom’s oil wealth has been enriching institutions, from M.I.T. to smaller regional universities. Some of the money is in the form of full tuition for its students, some in research initiatives through Saudi corporations and foundations, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. | | | PAID POST: A MESSAGE FROM CAMPAIGN MONITOR | | Email Marketing 101: Never Sacrifice Beauty for Simplicity | | A drag-and-drop email builder, a gallery of templates and turnkey designs, personalized customer journeys, and engagement segments. It's everything you need to create stunning, results-driven email campaigns in minutes. And with Campaign Monitor, you have access to it all, along with award-winning support around the clock. It's beautiful email marketing done simply. | | | Learn More | | | | Taliban: Afghan government officials are expected to meet face-to-face with the group’s representatives for a second day in Qatar today, a sign that efforts to end the long war are gaining momentum. | | | Greece: After a decade of brutal austerity, voters appear to have swept an opposition party, New Democracy, into power in Parliament, positioning its leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, as the likely new prime minister. | | | Billionaire charged: Jeffrey Epstein, a New York financier accused of molesting dozens of girls, is expected to appear before a federal magistrate today on charges of sex trafficking. More than a decade ago, he avoided federal criminal charges in a plea deal that is under new scrutiny in the #MeToo era. | | | Atul Loke for The New York Times | | | What we’re reading: This piece in The New Yorker. Anna Holland, an editor in our London newsroom, writes: “Twenty years ago this summer, Stephen King was hit by a van near his summer home in Maine. Doctors debated amputating his right leg. He wrote this piece, published a year after the accident, and it is as riveting and spine-tingling as any of his novels.” | | | David Malosh for The New York Times | | | Cook: When you need a simple meal, rice and beans with extras like pickled jalapeños, avocado, hot sauce and warm tortillas will do the trick. | | | Watch: Disney rolled out the first trailer for its live-action reboot of the 1998 martial-arts tale “Mulan,” starring the Chinese actress Liu Yifei, during halftime of the Women’s World Cup. | | | Smarter Living: If you’re heading into the workplace as a working mother, negotiate for maximum flexibility, and ditch the guilt. Research has shown that working mothers have higher-achieving daughters and sons who share the chores. Lauren Smith Brody, author of “The Fifth Trimester,” has more helpful ideas in our Working Women’s Handbook. | | | Wimbledon the tennis tournament takes its name for an area less than 10 miles southwest of central London. | | | The Museum of Wimbledon traces human habitation there to at least 4000 B.C., as hunters ceded territory to those clearing forests to cultivate crops and raise domesticated animals. | | | In 2013, Wimbledon officials made Roger Federer ditch his orange-soled shoes. Adrian Dennis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images | | | In the 1870s, it was also a center for the genteel game of croquet, soon to be overshadowed by a novel sport that became known as lawn tennis. | | | The niceties carried over from croquet, including the distaste for seeing sweat soaking through clothes. | | | White makes that far less noticeable, and when the club sitting on land once plowed by man and beast updated its name to include Lawn Tennis, it kept the rule that players must wear white (though a few colored accents are allowed). | | | That’s it for this briefing. Ta-ta. | | Thank you
To Mark Josephson and Eleanor Stanford for the break from the news. Andrea wrote today’s Back Story. You can reach the team at briefing@nytimes.com. | | P.S.
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• The first reference to Wimbledon in The New York Times was a mention in July 1860 that Queen Victoria planned to review 20,000 or more Volunteer Riflemen there, ahead of a shooting competition at which she would herself fire a rifle. | | | Were you sent this briefing by a friend? Sign up here to get the Morning Briefing. | | |
