Good morning. We’re covering escalating attacks between Israel and Iran, and a manhunt in the U.S. after the killings of a state lawmaker and her husband. Plus, the Dalai Lama’s succession.
Israel and Iran traded missile strikesIsrael and Iran exchanged attacks on population centers yesterday as both sides brushed aside international calls to de-escalate. The path to diplomacy appeared to narrow after officials called off talks that had been set for Sunday between Tehran and Washington on the future of Iran’s nuclear program. Israel said the goal of the powerful strikes it unleashed on Friday was disabling Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. President Trump urged the warring nations to stand down in the fighting. “Iran and Israel should make a deal, and will make a deal,” he wrote in a post on social media. He said: “Many calls and meetings now taking place.” The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps warned that it would increase attacks against Israel if the barrage didn’t stop. Israel’s military spokesman said Israel would not cease its attacks on Iran “for a moment.” We have live updates, and these maps show where Israel and Iran have struck since Friday. Unprepared: Interviews with half a dozen senior Iranian officials show that they were not expecting Israel to strike before another round of talks. They made an enormous miscalculation, my colleague Farnaz Fassihi writes. My colleague Katrin Bennhold spoke to Patrick Kingsley, our Jerusalem bureau chief, about Israel’s goals in attacking Iran. Watch the video.
Police hunted for a suspect in attacks on U.S. politiciansInvestigators scoured the Midwestern state of Minnesota yesterday for the man suspected of assassinating a state lawmaker and trying to kill a second. Police officers found a vehicle they believe belonged to the suspect, Vance Boelter. The car was found about an hour’s drive from where they think the suspect killed State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, on Saturday after arriving at their house dressed as a police officer. After an exchange of fire with the police, the suspect escaped on foot. State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were shot in a separate attack but survived. Here are the latest updates. The suspect: A friend of Boelter, 57, described him as a Christian who strongly opposed abortion and had voted for Trump. A senator said he had a list of 70 potential targets that included the names of other lawmakers, all of whom were Democrats. Context: The attack was a shock in Minnesota, which is known for political civility even as political violence in the U.S. has grown more commonplace. Other politics news: On Saturday, protests were held around the country against the Trump administration, just as Trump spent more than three hours at a military parade commemorating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army.
Relatives of Air India crash victims wait for bodiesThree days after the crash of Air India Flight 171, the bodies of only 35 of the 270 victims have been handed over to relatives. Anguished family members have been waiting outside a mortuary, waiting for news. Medical officials said that the intensity of the flames from the crash had made identifying the bodies difficult. The plane, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner en route to London, was carrying a full load of fuel when it crashed, soon after takeoff in Ahmedabad. Investigators, who have recovered the aircraft’s flight data recorder, learned that the pilots had barely enough time to call “Mayday” before the plane slammed into a medical college. Sole survivor: Viswash Kumar Ramesh, the man in seat 11A, somehow walked away from the crash. Read his story.
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The Dalai Lama, who is about to turn 90, is growing frail, leaving Tibetan Buddhists anxious. His goal of returning his people to their homeland remains distant, with China working to finish the task of crushing the Tibetan movement for autonomy. One of Tibet’s greatest concerns is that China could hijack the process of choosing the Dalai Lama’s successor. But the Dalai Lama has promised to reveal a plan for finding Tibet’s next spiritual leader on his birthday, July 6. Read more about the succession. Lives lived: Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who rose to the presidency of Nicaragua in 1990, died. She was 95.
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