Asian Morning: Deadly Attack Near U.K. Parliament; Car Plows Victims on Westminster Bridge

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]( Thursday, March 23, 2017 IN THIS EMAIL [NYT] [World](#world) | [Business](#business) | [Technology](#technology) | [Sports](#sports) | [U.S. News](#usnews) | [Opinion](#opinion) [] Top News [Deadly Attack Near U.K. Parliament; Car Plows Victims on Westminster Bridge]( By KATRIN BENNHOLD and STEPHEN CASTLE An attacker was also killed, according to the police, who said "a full counterterrorism investigation" was underway. [A research plane surveying ice thickness in the Arctic in August. Much of the ice in the region appears to be thinner than normal.]( [Arctic's Winter Sea Ice Drops to Its Lowest Recorded Level]( By HENRY FOUNTAIN Much of the ice also appears to be thinner than normal - further signs of climate change's effects on the region. [Workers emptying a cassava truck in Malai, Cambodia, in February. The town has about a dozen cassava export firms, most headed by former Khmer Rouge soldiers.]( Malai Journal [They Smashed Banks for Pol Pot. Now They're Founding Them.]( By JULIA WALLACE Former soldiers and ex-officials in an old Khmer Rouge redoubt in Cambodia have come to embrace capitalism with almost as much vigor as they once fought to destroy it. [Mukemmel Sarimsakci, a real estate executive who goes by Mike, or ]( ['Turkish Trump,' a Hotel Plan and a Tangle of Foreign Ties]( By STEVE EDER and BEN PROTESS President Trump pledged that his business would avoid overseas deals during his tenure. But his company is pursuing a hotel project with a firm with deep foreign connections. For more top news, go to [NYTimes.com]( ADVERTISEMENT Editors' Picks [A police call center in Lucknow, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The center said it gets roughly 700 calls every day, mostly from women complaining of persistent calls from strange men.]( [India's 'Phone Romeos' Look for Ms. Right via Wrong Numbers]( By ELLEN BARRY As mobile phone use grows, more young men are calling women at random, hoping to strike up a relationship, but sometimes harassing them. [] World [U.S. Airstrike in Syria Is Said to Kill Dozens of Civilians]( By ANNE BARNARD Residents of Raqqa and activists said hundreds of displaced Syrians had been sheltering in a school when it was hit. [The House of Commons was put on lockdown and police officers cordoned off the area.]( [Scenes From the London Attack]( By THE NEW YORK TIMES Photographs and a map show the scene after at least four people were killed and 20 injured in a burst of violence outside Parliament. [President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines in 2016.]( [Duterte Aide Bristles at Times Article, Calling It a 'Hack Job']( By FELIPE VILLAMOR A spokesman for President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines said a New York Times profile unfairly tracked Mr. Duterte's rise to power. [Virginia Raggi, a former lawyer who became Rome's first female mayor, ran for office as part of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement. A recent newspaper survey found that 70 percent of Romans disapprove of her tenure so far.]( [Rome Defies New Anti-Establishment Mayor With the Same Old Problems]( By GAIA PIANIGIANI The administration of Virginia Raggi, the Five Star Movement candidate, is struggling, but the mayor maintains that time and patience will do the job. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World]( [] Business [Neurala's office in Boston. The company, an artificial intelligence start-up, received an undisclosed sum from an investment firm backed by a state-run Chinese company.]( [China Bets on Sensitive U.S. Start-Ups, Worrying the Pentagon]( By PAUL MOZUR and JANE PERLEZ Beijing is pushing Chinese firms to invest in early-stage U.S. companies specializing in technology with potential military applications, a new report says. [Sun Huifeng, a marketer for an information technology company, rents out one of the rooms in his apartment in Beijing. The plants were given to him by Xiaozhu, a house-sharing start-up that he uses to advertise the property.]( [Airbnb's Rivals in China Hold Hands in a Nervous New Market]( By AMIE TSANG and PAUL MOZUR The Silicon Valley firm introduces a new effort in a country where other foreign firms have stumbled - and where rivals offer door locks and advice to worried hosts. [A promotion for ]( [In a Surprise, the Overseas Movie Box Office Shows No Growth]( By BROOKS BARNES Increased ticket sales in countries like Brazil and Japan could not offset steep declines in places like Germany, Britain and Mexico. China was flat. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business]( [] Technology [An Apple event in San Francisco last year. People looking for a laptop just to browse the web and send email have many less-expensive options.]( Ask The Wirecutter [When a Basic Laptop Will Do: Our Top Budget Picks]( By DAMON DARLIN If your expectations are modest, you might be able to save some money and get a great performer running Google Chrome OS for around $400, a Wirecutter expert says. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Tech]( [] Sports [Clippers guard Chris Paul broke his right hand last April and plays with 16 pins and a metal plate embedded in his palm. He shoots with his right hand.]( [Chris Paul's Fast Hands and Gruesome Fingers]( By SCOTT CACCIOLA Paul, the Clippers' ball-hawking guard, has paid a price - multiple injuries to his fingers - for collecting more steals than any other active N.B.A. player. [Norichika Aoki of Japan diving away from an inside pitch in the eighth inning of a semifinal game against the United States on Tuesday. The Americans won, 2-1, to advance to the final against Puerto Rico on Wednesday night.]( [W.B.C. Championship Will Be a Study in Contrasts]( By BILLY WITZ The staid United States team - in the final for the first time - will face a passionate Puerto Rican squad determined to bring victory home to a place coping with economic strife. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports]( [] U.S. News [Monitoring May Have 'Incidentally' Picked Up Trump Aides, House Member Says]( By EMMARIE HUETTEMAN and MATTHEW ROSENBERG The White House seized on the comments as evidence of wiretapping, but the remarks indicated that the intelligence targets were foreign officials, not President Trump. [Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, spoke at a news conference about the American Health Care Act last week in Washington.]( [House Republicans, Deeply Divided, Face Painful Choice on Health Vote]( By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Republicans could pass a deeply unpopular bill that could wreak havoc with their own voters, or turn it back and wound the president's agenda. [Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, testified on Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.]( Congressional Memo [Of Horse v. Duck, Mutton Busting and Other Confirmation Diversions]( By MATT FLEGENHEIMER Republicans have elevated the practice of gentle questioning of a preferred Supreme Court nominee to high art - even when confirmation appears assured. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Opinion [The Bronx High School of Science, one of the ]( Op-Ed Contributor [The Truth About New York City's Elite High Schools]( By DAMON HEWITT Bad policy and a false narrative of inferiority are keeping black and Latino students out of some of the city's best schools. [Senator Dianne Feinstein questioning Neil Gorsuch on the first day of his confirmation hearing.]( Op-Ed Contributor [The Problems With Originalism]( By KEN LEVY Judge Gorsuch's preferred theory of constitutional interpretation is self-undermining. 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