European Morning: British Alignment With Trump Threatens European Order

View in [Browser] Add [nytdirect@nytimes.com] to your address book. [Unsubscribe] [The New York Times] [NYT Apps] | [[The New York Times] Today's Headlines] Friday, January 27, 2017 IN THIS EMAIL [NYT] [World] | [Business] | [Technology] | [Sports] | [U.S. News] | [Opinion] Top News [Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain arriving at Philadelphia International Airport on Thursday for her two-day visit to the United States. She will be the first world leader to meet with President Trump.] The Interpreter [British Alignment With Trump Threatens European Order] By MAX FISHER Britain has much to lose whichever way it turns, but it seems more concerned with its departure from the European Union than other global events. [Scarecrows depicting David Cameron, left, the former prime minister of Britain, and Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, are displayed during the Scarecrow Festival in Britain on July 31.] [Ordered to Seek Approval on 'Brexit,' Theresa May Does So. Tersely.] By KATRIN BENNHOLD At 132 words - one of the shorter bills in British history - the bill was seen as an effort to prevent amendments that could slow its passage. [President Adama Barrow greets supporters after arriving at Banjul airport in Gambia on Thursday.] [His Predecessor Gone, Gambia's New President Finally Comes Home] By JAIME YAYA BARRY and DIONNE SEARCEY The president, Adama Barrow, had fled to neighboring Senegal more than a week earlier after Yahya Jammeh, his defeated predecessor, refused to cede power. [.]['This Feels Like Being Born Again:' Gambians Hope for Change and Long for Home] For more top news, go to [INYT.com] ADVERTISEMENT Editors' Picks [Eun Young, a student from South Korea, at the College of the North Atlantic in St. John's, Newfoundland, in November.] WORLD [Canada Beckons International Students With a Path to Citizenship] By CRAIG S. SMITH Universities are welcoming students from abroad as part of a government strategy to offset the country's aging population and slowing birthrate. OPINION | Op-Ed Contributors [Thanks to Trump, the Doomsday Clock Advances Toward Midnight] By LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS and DAVID TITLEY The world failed to come to grips with nuclear weapons and climate change, and it appears President Trump will only make matters worse. World [Turkish military officers arriving at the Supreme Court in Athens on Thursday. They fled Turkey in July after a failed coup and requested political asylum in Greece, saying they feared for their lives.] [Greece's Top Court Rejects Extradition of Turkish Officers] By NIKI KITSANTONIS The Supreme Court ruled that they would face "the curtailment of their fundamental human rights" if they were sent back to Turkey. [A woman suffering from complications caused by an unsafe abortion at a hospital in Zongo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2015. The so-called Mexico City policy prohibits organizations abroad from using American aid to discuss abortion as a method of family planning.] [Clinics for World's Vulnerable Brace for Trump's Anti-Abortion Cuts] By DIONNE SEARCEY, NORIMITSU ONISHI and SOMINI SENGUPTA Health workers say President Trump's ban on abortion counseling will hurt even those health services that do not involve abortions. [President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico this week. His cautious approach to President Trump had caused an outcry in Mexico.] [In a Corner, President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico Punches Back] By AZAM AHMED The cancellation of his trip to the United States ended months of diplomacy for a leader caught between his people and an unpredictable, and at times hostile, American president. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World] Business [Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain is scheduled to be at the White House on Friday, where she is expected to begin discussions on a free-trade agreement between Britain and the United States.] [Talk of Free-Trade Deal Is Clouded by Politics] By PETER S. GOODMAN President Trump's plans for a trade deal with Britain are more about political benefits than economic gains, which will almost certainly be modest. [Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt in Wolfsburg, Germany, in April. A former executive at Daimler, she was the first woman to join Volkswagen's board when she was appointed in January 2016.] [VW Executive, Hired to Help Overhaul Carmaker's Culture, Is to Leave] By PRASHANT S. RAO The surprise departure of Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt raises questions about the company's willingness to change after the diesel deception scandal. [Google said on Wednesday it had recently banned nearly 200 publishers from its advertising network for deceptive content.] [In Race Against Fake News, Google and Facebook Stroll to the Starting Line] By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI and MIKE ISAAC Google and Facebook emphasized their efforts to combat the spread of false articles, but industry watchers say their measures have had little impact. For more business news, go to [INYT.com/Business] ADVERTISEMENT Sports [Mark McMorris of Canada hit a backside triple cork 1440 in the men's snowboard slopestyle event at the 2016 Winter X Games last January in Aspen, Colo.] [Snowboarders Resist Making Big Air All About the Latest Trick] By MATT HIGGINS Ahead of this week's X Games and next year's Olympics, successful quadruple flips in the sport have revived discussions about spinning to win versus riding with style. [Roger Federer, above, defeated Stan Wawrinka in five sets in an Australian Open semifinal on Thursday night.] [Roger Federer Beats Stan Wawrinka to Reach Australian Open Final] By BEN ROTHENBERG Having not played a competitive tournament since Wimbledon last July, the 17th-seeded Federer, 35, completed an improbable run. [Venus Williams, left, and her sister Serena at the Australian Open in 1998.] On Tennis [A Final Match for Venus and Serena Williams. But Maybe Not the Last One.] By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY It would be tempting to say the sisters' meeting in the Australian Open might be their last in a Grand Slam tournament final, but they have upended conventional wisdom before. For more sports news, go to [INYT.com/Sports] U.S. News [President Trump in his office aboard Air Force One on Thursday.] [White House Sows Confusion About Plan for a 20% Import Tax] By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, BINYAMIN APPELBAUM and ALAN RAPPEPORT Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, appeared to endorse the plan as a way to pay for a wall on the Mexican border, but then backtracked. [President Trump greeted Speaker Paul D. Ryan as he and Vice President Mike Pence attended a retreat for congressional Republicans in Philadelphia on Thursday.] [Republicans Now Marching With Trump on Ideas They Had Opposed] By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Republicans' longstanding opposition to federal spending, along with other party orthodoxy, is being cast aside to support President Trump [Ernest Ward, right, the N.A.A.C.P. president in Troup County, Ga., said he had ] [Nearly 8 Decades Later, an Apology for a Lynching in Georgia] By ALAN BLINDER and RICHARD FAUSSET The police chief in LaGrange, Ga., who is white, says he will apologize for the death of a young black man by a white mob in 1940. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US] Opinion [From left: Geert Wilders of the Dutch Party for Freedom; Marcus Pretzell of the Alternative for Germany party; Marine Le Pen of France's National Front party; and Frauke Petry of the Alternative for Germany party in Koblenz, Germany, last week.] Op-Ed Contributor [The Radical Right's United Front] By CAS MUDDE Europe's far-right political parties are putting forth an image of unity and strength. It's just a facade. [Nikita Mikhalkov at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in December. His image of Russia is that of a besieged fortress under constant threat of attack.] Op-Ed Contributor [The Exorcist of Russia] By DOUGLAS SMITH A nationalist friend of Vladimir Putin promotes a version of history with an enormous chip on its shoulder. 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