European Morning: Paris Highway Robbers Target Qatari Sisters in $5.3 Million Heist

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] Wednesday, November 23, 2016 IN THIS EMAIL [NYT] [World] | [Business] | [Technology] | [Sports] | [U.S. News] | [Opinion] Top News [Paris Highway Robbers Target Qatari Sisters in $5.3 Million Heist] By AURELIEN BREEDEN The holdup is the latest in a series of robberies targeting wealthy tourists and famous visitors in and around the French capital. [ISIS Operative Suspected in Paris and Brussels Attacks Is Identified] By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI The operative, who was previously known only by the nom de guerre Abu Souleymane, is Abdelilah Himich, a 27-year-old from Morocco, the State Department said. [Saulius Skvernelis, center, was named by Lithuania's Parliament as the new prime minister on Tuesday.] [Lithuania's New Prime Minister Pledges to Increase Military Spending] By RICHARD MARTYN-HEMPHILL The new prime minister, Saulius Skvernelis, supports President-elect Donald J. Trump's call for NATO members to spend more on defense. For more top news, go to [INYT.com] ADVERTISEMENT Editors' Picks [A family fleeing the fighting as oil fields burned in Qayyara, Iraq, this month.] WORLD [Scenes of Flight From Mosul's Front Lines] By SERGEY PONOMAREV and TIM ARANGO The campaign to reclaim Iraq's second-largest city from the Islamic State has displaced nearly 70,000 Iraqis, and may uproot hundreds of thousands more. [Donald Trump leaving the New York Times after a meeting there on Tuesday.] OPINION | Editorial [Questioning Donald Trump] By THE EDITORIAL BOARD It was alarming to confront how thinly thought through many of Mr. Trump's stances actually are. World Sinosphere [Daimler Executive Is Removed After Accusations of Insulting Chinese] By CHRIS BUCKLEY Chinese news reports said the German head of a truck and bus division used bigoted language and pepper spray in a parking dispute, setting off a furor on social media. [President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey at a ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, in Ankara, the capital, this month.] [15,000 More Public Workers Are Fired in Turkey Crackdown] By ROD NORDLAND and SAFAK TIMUR After a failed coup in July, soldiers and police officers were among the latest cull, accused of links to terrorism or of acting against national security. [Officers at the Fukushima prefectural office gathered data on Tuesday following an earthquake that hit the area.] [New Quake Tests Resilience, and Faith, in Japan's Nuclear Plants] By MOTOKO RICH The 7.4-magnitude tremor prompted some fearful memories, but the Fukushima Daini and Daiichi power stations seemed to respond well. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World] Business [David Koch at a gala in 2015. ] [Kochs and Other Madoff Investors Are Winners in Fight Over Profits Held Abroad] By RANDALL SMITH A judge ruled that certain funds held abroad - estimated at about $2 billion - could not be made available to victims of the Madoff Ponzi scheme. [Greg Vialpando, who is disabled, switched from opioids to medical marijuana for chronic back pain. He lives in Santa Fe, N.M., and had to fight to get the treatment covered by his insurance.] [Where Marijuana Is the Doctor's Orders, Will Insurers Pay?] By BARRY MEIER As legal use of marijuana spreads, it has raised questions in the workplace, such as about drug tests and insurance coverage for medical use. [World leaders at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting on Sunday in Lima, Peru. President-elect Donald J. Trump has said he will get tough on China on trade.] Economic Scene [A Trade War Against China Might Be a Fight Trump Couldn't Win] By EDUARDO PORTER While China would suffer under a 45 percent tariff, it might be able to take the blow and it would certainly counterpunch. For more business news, go to [INYT.com/Business] Technology [President Xi Jinping of China, center, speaking with Mark Zuckerberg, right, the chief executive of Facebook, and Lu Wei, China's Internet czar at the time, in 2015 at a gathering at Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Wash.] [Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China] By MIKE ISAAC The social network, blocked in China since 2009, has developed software to keep posts from appearing in users' news feeds in specific geographic areas, current and former employees said. [Highway safety administrators are increasingly concerned about distractions posed by smartphones and the apps that Americans use while behind the wheel.] [Auto Safety Regulators Seek a Driver Mode to Block Apps] By NEAL E. BOUDETTE Voluntary guidelines will be issued amid a spike in traffic fatalities in the last two years. [Twitter now allows its users to mute specific hashtags, keywords, emoji, and more from appearing in account notifications.] Tech Tip [Using Twitter's New Expanded Mute Powers] By J. D. BIERSDORFER As part of its response to online abuse, the service now allows users to mute hashtags, keywords and other material from their notifications. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Tech] ADVERTISEMENT Sports [From top left, Wendy Boglioli, Kim Peyton and Jill Sterkel celebrated after Shirley Babashoff completed an American victory in the 4x100 meter freestyle relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics. It was the only American gold for the women's team, which mostly finished behind East Germans later revealed to have doped.] [Olympic Swimmers, Past and Present, United by Views on Doping] By KAREN CROUSE American Olympians victimized by cheaters over the years bond at an award ceremony. [At the new T-Mobile Arena, home of the N.H.L.'s expansion team in Las Vegas, an image of a blackjack table was projected onto the ice before a preseason game between the Los Angeles Kings and the Dallas Stars last month.] [Las Vegas Golden Knights, N.H.L.'s New Team, Takes Its Place on the Strip] By NAILA-JEAN MEYERS The league's newest expansion franchise revealed its name and logo Tuesday night in a ceremony outside the new T-Mobile Arena. [Lee Duck-hee, an 18-year-old from South Korea, is continuing his rise despite a big disadvantage: being unable to hear the ball.] [For Deaf Tennis Player, Sound Is No Barrier] By BEN ROTHENBERG Lee Duck-hee, 18, of South Korea, is ranked 143rd in the world in a sport in which hearing the ball is considered crucial. For more sports news, go to [INYT.com/Sports] U.S. News [The comedian Ellen DeGeneres receiving her medal at the White House on Tuesday. President Obama praised the courage it took her to come out as gay to a national audience.] [Obama Awards His Last Presidential Medals of Freedom] By GARDINER HARRIS Mr. Obama has given more of the medals, the nation's highest civilian honor, than any of his predecessors, and his last ceremony was at turns poignant and hilarious. [President-elect Donald J. Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence outside the clubhouse at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., last week.] [Donald Trump Drops Threat of New Hillary Clinton Investigation] By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and MICHAEL D. SHEAR "Lock her up"? The president-elect signaled that he would prefer to move on rather than pursue inquiries into Mrs. Clinton's email use and the Clinton Foundation. [The bus on which five children died was removed from the crash site in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Tuesday.] [Dead Children and a Crumpled School Bus Leave Chattanooga Dazed] By ALAN BLINDER At least five students in Tennessee had died and another 12 were still hospitalized, the authorities said, and the bus driver was charged with vehicular homicide. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US] Opinion [Donald Trump reacting to a crowd in the lobby of the New York Times building on Tuesday.] Op-Ed Columnist [Donald Trump's Demand for Love] By FRANK BRUNI His meeting with The Times was a marvel of boasting and bending. [Items for sale at the Trump Store in Trump Tower, in New York City.] Op-Ed Columnist [The Trump Revelations] By ROSS DOUTHAT Our next president, conciliatory on policy and stubborn on potential corruption. Op-Ed Contributor [When Doctors First Do Harm] By M. GREGG BLOCHE Doctors not only monitored torture by C.I.A. operatives, they helped design it. 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