European Morning: Under Pressure, Jeremy Corbyn Tries to Recalibrate His Image in U.K.

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, January 11, 2017 IN THIS EMAIL [NYT] [World] | [Business] | [Technology] | [Sports] | [U.S. News] | [Opinion] Top News [Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain's Labour Party, in London last month.] [Under Pressure, Jeremy Corbyn Tries to Recalibrate His Image in U.K.] By STEVEN ERLANGER and STEPHEN CASTLE The opposition Labour leader said he was "not wedded to freedom of movement" in the European Union, opening the way to supporting a so-called soft Brexit. [The Norrebro district of Copenhagen. European countries are struggling to integrate an influx of migrants, many from majority-Muslim countries.] [Muslim Girls in Switzerland Must Attend Swim Classes With Boys, Court Says] By DAN BILEFSKY The girls' parents had resisted the mandatory classes on religious grounds, taking their case to the European Court of Human Rights. [Thomas Williams, a former priest, is the Rome bureau chief for Breitbart News.] [Breitbart's Man in Rome: A Gentle Voice in a Strident Chorus] By JASON HOROWITZ Thomas Williams, a former priest, gives an organization that sees itself as an expanding empire a foothold in the home of the Crusades. For more top news, go to [INYT.com] ADVERTISEMENT Editors' Picks [Roman Herzog, a former president of Germany, in 2015.] WORLD [Roman Herzog, Germany's President in 1990s, Is Dead at 82] By SEWELL CHAN A former judge, Mr. Herzog encouraged economic overhauls and a remembrance of the Holocaust during his presidency, the second since reunification. OPINION | Op-Ed Contributor [Can Donald Trump and Raúl Castro Make a Good Deal?] By JORGE I. DOMÍNGUEZ The agreements that the new administration will inherit serve the interests of the United States and Cuba. World [Rohingya from Myanmar at a refugee camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, in December. An estimated 65,000 Rohingya have fled across the border, according to the International Organization for Migration.] ['There Are No Homes Left': Rohingya Tell of Rape, Fire and Death in Myanmar] By ELLEN BARRY From camps in Bangladesh, refugees shed light on the violence that has unfolded in Myanmar in recent months as troops carry out a brutal counterinsurgency. [Weapons seized in February from smugglers near Yemen's coast.] [Arms Seized Off Coast of Yemen Appear to Have Been Made in Iran] By C. J. CHIVERS and ERIC SCHMITT Photographs of the weapons were analyzed by the Small Arms Survey, which obtained them after an open-records dispute with the Australian military. [Ms. Hollingworth in 1985.] [Clare Hollingworth, Reporter Who Broke News of World War II, Dies at 105] By MARGALIT FOX In 1939, Ms. Hollingworth was less than a week into her first job as a correspondent when she spotted troops and tanks concealed in a valley. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World] Business [An intensive investigation into Volkswagen's manipulation of diesel emissions tests began in 2014, and now involves American and German investigators and prosecutors.] [Volkswagen Set to Plead Guilty and to Pay U.S. $4.3 Billion in Deal] By JACK EWING and HIROKO TABUCHI The agreement, which would settle a federal criminal investigation into the carmaker's cheating on vehicle emissions tests, could be put to a company vote on Wednesday. [Trinity Mirror, publisher of The Daily Mirror, a left-leaning tabloid, is looking into a deal involving The Daily Star and The Daily Express, which lean right.] [Trinity Mirror in Talks to Acquire Stake in Tabloid Publisher] By CHAD BRAY The talks come nearly two years after Trinity Mirror said it was evaluating assets of the Northern & Shell Media Group, which publishes The Daily Express. [Rex W. Tillerson, the former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, is preparing for a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday.] [Rex Tillerson, Required to Shed Exxon Shares, Wants to Defer the Taxes] By JESSE DRUCKER Tax experts say Exxon Mobil's plan for Mr. Tillerson, its former chief executive and now the secretary of state nominee, may run into trouble with the I.R.S. For more business news, go to [INYT.com/Business] Technology [John MacFarlane spent 14 years leading Sonos, a company he helped found.] [Chief Executive of Audio Firm Sonos Steps Down] By NICK WINGFIELD The Santa Barbara, Calif., company has managed to compete with industry giants for 14 years. But it faces new challenges from Amazon and Google. [President-elect Donald J. Trump with the Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son at Trump Tower last month. Mr. Son has pledged to invest $50 billion in the United States, a move that he said would create some 50,000 jobs.] [SoftBank's $100 Billion Investment Fund Starts to Take Shape] By LANDON THOMAS Jr. Masayoshi Son has pledged to create jobs, but a small group of former Deutsche Bank executives are looking beyond just tech start-ups for investing the mammoth fund. [Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, are expanding the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the limited liability company they formed in 2015 to focus on education, science and curing disease.] [Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Builds Political Muscle for Philanthropic Work] By MIKE ISAAC Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have hired two former presidential campaign managers for the company they set up for charitable efforts. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Tech] ADVERTISEMENT Sports [Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, had pressed for increasing the number of countries that play in the World Cup when he ran for the leadership of the organization last year. He said it would invigorate the event, which is expected to bring an additional $1 billion in television, sponsorship and ticketing revenue in the first cycle alone.] [FIFA to Expand World Cup to 48 Teams in 2026] By ANDREW KEH The move, pushed by the group's president as a chance to increase fan engagement, is expected to bring an additional $1 billion every four years. [The construction site of the Krestovsky stadium, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The stadium will be a venue for the 2018 World Cup.] [National Antidoping Groups, Citing Doping, Want Russian Athletes Barred] By REBECCA R. RUIZ They are calling for the country's athletes to be kept out of international competitions until it complies with antidoping rules, among other proposals. [Maria Sharapova celebrated her victory in the 2014 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany.] [Maria Sharapova to Return From Suspension at April Event in Germany] By BEN ROTHENBERG Sharapova, 29, who was barred for doping, will return on April 26, in the clay event in Stuttgart, where she is a three-time champion. For more sports news, go to [INYT.com/Sports] U.S. News [President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday at Trump Tower in Manhattan.] [Trump Received Unsubstantiated Report That Russia Had Damaging Information About Him] By SCOTT SHANE, ADAM GOLDMAN and MATTHEW ROSENBERG The material was considered so potentially explosive that the intelligence agencies decided that the president and the president-elect needed to be told and that the agencies were actively investigating it. [Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, spoke during his confirmation hearing Tuesday to become the next attorney general.] [Jeff Sessions Says He Would Be Independent and Stand Up to Trump] By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MATT APUZZO During a Senate hearing, the senator who is in line to become attorney general promised to aggressively enforce even laws with which he disagreed. [Dylann Roof at a hearing in North Charleston, S.C., last year.] [Dylann Roof Is Sentenced to Death in Charleston Church Massacre] By ALAN BLINDER and KEVIN SACK Dylann S. Roof was found guilty of 33 counts in connection with the June 17, 2015, massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Nine people died. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US] Opinion [Rohingya women near a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, in November.] Editorial [Myanmar's Shameful Denial] By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Brutal attacks on the Rohingya are a stain on the government of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. [Meryl Streep at the Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday.] Op-Ed Columnist [Streep vs. Trump for America] By ROGER COHEN Americans have been duped by a showman. But to unseat him, liberals must reckon with how they lost sight of their country. [Vladimir Putin in Moscow in December.] Op-Ed Contributor [Russia's D.N.C. Hack Was Only the Start] By ROBBY MOOK Unless we realize how vulnerable our democracy is, we are playing into the hands of foreign aggressors like Vladimir Putin. For more opinion, go to [INYT.com/Opinion] FOLLOW US: [Facebook] [Facebook] | [Twitter] [@NYTimes] | [Pinterest] [Pinterest] | [Instagram] [Instagram] [NYT] Access The New York Times from anywhere with our suite of apps: [iPhone®] | [iPad®] | [Android] | [All] [.] Save 15% at [The NYTimes Store »] [.] Have questions? visit our [Help Section »] [.] Visit our mobile website at [m.nyt.com »] About This Email This is an automated email. Please do not reply directly to this email. 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