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The storm that wrought avalanches at ski resorts and white-outs on mountain roads last week was so fierce that California water officials postponed their much-anticipated monthly snow survey. But on Monday, when state officials proceeded with the measurements in the high Sierra under sunny skies, they found that the biggest storm of the winter did little to ease fears of renewed drought. Snowpack at Phillips Station in El Dorado County, the state’s traditional survey spot south of Lake Tahoe... Читать дальше...

SRINAGAR, India — Tens of thousands of angry protesters poured into the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, hurling rocks after soldiers killed four civilians and two suspected militants. Government forces responded with tear gas. The overnight shooting at a military checkpoint threatened to spark even more unrest in a region that in recent years has seen renewed rebel attacks and repeated public protests against Indian rule.

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish police detained four Islamic State suspects as part of an investigation into a possible attack on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, the country’s state-run news agency reported on Monday. The arrests came as the embassy was closed on Monday over an unspecified security threat. The Anadolu Agency said police detained four Iraqi nationals. Two were detained on a bus at a security check on a highway linking the Black Sea city of Samsun to Ankara.... Читать дальше...

DANANG, Vietnam — For the first time since the Vietnam War, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is paying a visit to a Vietnamese port, seeking to bolster both countries’ efforts to stem expansionism by China in the South China Sea. Monday’s visit by the Carl Vinson brings more than 5,000 sailors to the central coastal city of Danang, the largest such U.S. military presence in Vietnam since the Southeast Asian nation was unified under Communist leadership after the war ended in 1975. The Carl Vinson... Читать дальше...

In the African-American Shakespeare Company’s take on Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” want is always the twin of fury, and both feelings sit in the New Orleans air like mugginess before a hurricane. Punching your wife doesn’t make you a bad person any more than pawing at her does. Both moves draw the same encouraging smiles from neighbors. (And boy, are they monitoring you; the wooden scaffolding that dominates Kevin August Landesman’s set design makes it seem as if eyes are always peering in through the cracks.

LONDON — British media reported Monday that a former Russian spy was in critical condition after coming into contact with an “unknown substance,” a case that immediately drew parallels to the poisoning of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko. Authorities did not identify the man, saying only that he and a woman had been found unconscious on a bench in a shopping mall in Salisbury, about 90 miles west of London. But the Press Association and other British media identified him as Sergei Skripal... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — They spent their first year in Washington as an untouchable White House power couple, commanding expansive portfolios, outlasting rivals and enjoying unmatched access to the president. But Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have undergone a swift and stunning reckoning of late, their powers restricted, their enemies emboldened and their future in the West Wing uncertain. Kushner, long the second-most powerful man in the West Wing, is under siege. President Trump’s son-in-law has lost influential White House allies. Читать дальше...

The San Francisco Symphony’s 2018-19 season will include a two-week Stravinsky Festival conducted by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, a musical celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a program devoted to the theme of climate change in partnership with the San Francisco Asia Society. The season, announced Monday, March 5, will open Sept. 5 with a gala concert featuring violinist Itzhak Perlman, and conclude June 27-30, 2019, with semi-staged productions of two one-act operas... Читать дальше...