Your Tuesday Briefing

View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Tuesday, November 7, 2017 [NYTimes.com »]( Europe Edition [Your Tuesday Briefing]( By PATRICK BOEHLER Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: Todd Heisler/The New York Times • Sunday’s mass shooting at a church in rural Texas was the last chapter in a troubled life full of domestic rage. [The gunman, Devin Kelley]( was convicted and jailed for attacking his wife and infant stepson in 2010, fracturing the child’s skull. The U.S. military is investigating why the former airman’s conviction [was not entered into a database]( that would have prevented him from buying a gun. We compared [President Trump’s responses to recent attacks](. Our Houston bureau chief and a pastor at a nearby church discuss the shooting [on our podcast, “The Daily.”]( Our Op-Ed columnist Nicholas Kristof [looked at ways to reduce shootings](. If you have been affected by a such an attack, [please get in touch to share any advice]( you could offer to help others facing such a tragedy. _____ Andrew Testa for The New York Times • Revelations continue from the “Paradise Papers,” a [trove of documents from an offshore firm used to obscure wealth](. As Apple’s tax structure, and its reliance on Ireland, came under scrutiny, the tech giant [turned to the small British island of Jersey]( above. (According to one estimate, tax strategies like the ones used by Apple cost governments as much as $240 billion a year in lost revenue.) And the records showed how Leonid Mikhelson, Russia’s richest oligarch, sidestepped prohibitions on foreigners registering private planes in the United States [with the help of a Utah bank](. _____ Houthi Military Media Unit, via Reuters • Saudi Arabia’s claim that a missile fired from Yemen, above, was an “act of war” by Iran was the sharpest escalation in nearly three decades of mounting hostility between the two regional rivals, [our correspondents write in an analysis](. The forceful Saudi tone signaled a new aggressiveness by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who consolidated power at home with a [series of high-profile arrests]( over the weekend. We obtained video [from inside the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh]( where royals, [businessmen]( and former government ministers are being held captive. _____ Sean Gallup/Getty Images • The U.N. Climate Conference opened in Bonn, Germany, with a warning that [2017 looks to be one of the three hottest years]( ever recorded. Two years after countries signed a landmark climate agreement in Paris, [here’s a]( at how far off course]( the world remains from curbing drastic global warming. _____ Joyce Hesselberth • Members of the generation born between 1980 and 2000 are now having children of their own, and they are parenting very differently from their forebears. We [examined their innovations]( like the concept of co-parenting and nap-time apps. “Google is the new grandparent, the new neighbor, the new nanny,” one observer said. Business Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times • Norwegian fish farmers face new curbs designed to protect the country’s stocks of wild salmon. The rules have [angered both the industry and its opponents](. • Broadcom unveiled a [$105 billion takeover bid for Qualcomm](. The two chip makers’ products touch nearly every smartphone in the world. • Disney [recently held preliminary talks]( to buy entertainment assets owned by 21st Century Fox, as the media industry races to consolidate. • Air travelers [have begun to rebel against reduced legroom]( and thinner, smaller seats that have allowed carriers to squeeze in more customers. • Here’s a snapshot of [global markets](. In the News Doug Mills/The New York Times • In Tokyo, President Trump urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to protect Japan from North Korea by buying billions of dollars worth of U.S. weaponry. (Above, the two leaders feeding fish.) Mr. Trump is in South Korea today. [[The New York Times]( • Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, abruptly dismissed his deputy in a move that positions Mr. Mugabe’s wife, Grace, to succeed him. [[The New York Times]( • In Egypt, a rights lawyer stepped forward as a candidate in next year’s presidential election, emerging as the first open challenger to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s authoritarian rule. [[The New York Times]( • Boris Johnson, Britain’s foreign secretary, is facing criticism over a statement about a British citizen imprisoned in Iran that could prolong her ordeal there. [[The New York Times]( • In India, a recent assault on a Swiss couple near the Taj Mahal has rocked the tourism industry. [[The New York Times]( • Hundreds of people marched in silence in Warsaw to honor a man who self-immolated to protest government policies that he said were eroding Polish democracy. [[Associated Press]( • In Germany, [immigration]( and [climate policy]( are the most contentious issues in exploratory talks to form a new government, Chancellor Angela Merkel said. [[Reuters]( • No Russian anthem at the Olympics? We learned that this is one of the possible penalties mulled by the International Olympic Committee against Russia for [systemic doping](. [[The New York Times]( • Today is Election Day in the United States with several state and local elections scheduled. Voters in New York City will decide on whether to re-elect Mayor Bill de Blasio. [[The New York Times]( • France’s top literary prize, the Goncourt Prize, went to Eric Vuillard for a novel that portrays the Nazis as the product of big business interests. [[Associated Press]( Smarter Living Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life. Gentl and Hyers for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Rebecca Bartoshesky • Recipe of the day: Get ambitious with [an unorthodox clam-chowder pizza](. • Learn the best ways to say “Sorry, I’m out of the office” in our latest [Smarter Living newsletter](. • Here are a [few questions to test your travel savviness](. (They come with great vacation advice.) Noteworthy Marvel Studios, via Associated Press • “Thor: Ragnarok” [had a thunderclap opening](. Most critics had [euphoric reviews]( [ours calls its story]( an “uninteresting thicket of brawls, machinations and useful coincidences.” • The classicist Emily Wilson has produced the first translation of “The Odyssey” by a woman, [giving Homer’s epic a radically contemporary voice](. • Listen to a lost song by the composer Kurt Weill written for a musical revue in 1931 and [recently discovered in a Berlin archive](. • Craft chocolate in Paris comes in a panoply of forms, flavors, origins and styles. [Here are 10 of the best](. Back Story Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, via Associated Press One hundred years ago today, one of the century’s [most momentous uprisings hit St. Petersburg](. The Russian Revolution’s eventual outcome, the Soviet Union, offered hope for some but delivered suffering for many. Throughout the centenary year, we explored the legacy of Communism in a [series of Op-Eds, “Red Century.”]( Perhaps less noted is how the revolution changed culinary history. Millions of émigrés of the crumbled remains of the Russian Empire took their cuisine with them. “As the American, wandering a foreign land, longs for ham and eggs country style, so does the Russian exile want borsch, the national Russian soup with his meal,” [The Times wrote in 1935](. “And in New York he gets it.” A Parisian cookbook from 1938 [described borscht]( as “a Russian soup made from beef, duck, pork belly, garnished with cabbage julienne and beetroot.” (It also provided a Polish version.) To this day, restaurants in Hong Kong [serve “lor soong tong,”]( a soup derived from the borscht made by migrants from Russia and Eastern Europe who sought refuge in what was then a British colony. And just last month, Ukraine sought to widen the [soup’s global reach on Twitter]( “@Google & @Apple, time to have a borscht emoji!” _____ Your Morning Briefing is published weekday mornings and updated online. This briefing was prepared for the European morning. [Browse past briefings here](. We also have briefings timed for the [Australian]( [Asian]( and [American]( mornings. You can sign up for these and other Times newsletters [here](. If photographs appear out of order, please download the updated New York Times app [from iTunes]( or [Google Play](. What would you like to see here? Contact us at [europebriefing@nytimes.com](mailto:europebriefing@nytimes.com?subject=Briefing%20Feedback%20(Europe)). _____ Correction: A photo caption in [Monday’s briefing]( misstated the country that the islands of Madeira are a part of. It is Portugal, not Spain. ADVERTISEMENT FOLLOW NYT [Facebook] [FACEBOOK]( [Twitter] [@nytimes]( Prefer a different send time? 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