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Baz Ratner / Reuters The Roots of Pompeo’s Declaration in Support of Crimea
The 1940 Welles Declaration refused to recognize Soviet annexation of the Baltic states.
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Reuters Russia Can’t Control What Happens in Syria
As the civil war morphs, Putin is trying to position himself as the indispensable power. But a dangerous confrontation between Israel and Iran is escalating.
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Leah Mills / Reuters Is Trump Going to War With Iran?
The president threatened the Islamic Republic with “consequences,” but the prospects of an actual military conflict are slim.
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Dylan Martinez / Reuters Who Wins When France Claims the World Cup?
Three Atlantic staffers discuss tricky questions of national—and international—allegiance in sports, after the victory for Les Bleus, which some called “the last African team.”
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Trump Administration Contradicts Itself on Putin’s Offer
The White House and U.S. State Department had very different answers to Russia’s request to interview 11 Americans.
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Kevin Coombs / Reuters Trump Goes After Montenegro, a ‘Tiny Country’ With ‘Aggressive People’
Fresh off of meeting with Vladimir Putin, the U.S. president again questions NATO commitments.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Some of the People Trump Has Blamed for Russia’s 2016 Election Hack
A “400 pound” person, someone living in New Jersey, and now “a lot of people out there”
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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters Barack Obama Breaks His Silence
The former president finally did what his supporters have waited for him to do since Donald Trump became president. He spoke up.
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Mikhail Klimentyev / Sputnik / Kremlin via Reuters The French President Had a More American Response to Putin Than Trump Did
In his own news conference with Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron displayed strength and diplomatic agility. President Trump? Not so much.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Sides With the Kremlin, Against the U.S. Government
The president of the United States took Vladimir Putin’s word over findings by several American agencies that Russia interfered with the 2016 election.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump’s Message to NATO
‘We’re the schmucks paying for the whole thing.”
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters Trump Has Already Started Four Trade Wars—and Counting
A brief guide to Donald Trump’s multifront tariff war
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Keeps His Friends Distant and His Enemies Closer
Why does the president seem more inclined to believe Kim Jong Un than Angela Merkel?
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KCNA / Reuters No One Knows What Kim Jong Un Promised Trump
North Korea is reportedly continuing nuclear work. But it’s not clear that’s a violation of what it agreed to in Singapore.
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Edgard Garrido / Reuters Who's Afraid of Mexican Populism?
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the newly elected president, could take a pragmatic approach or go the way of Venezuela.
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U.S. Mission Geneva / Reuters The UN’s Migration Body Rejects Trump’s Pick to Be Its Leader
The move is a rare repudiation of U.S. leadership of the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration.
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Caren Firouz / Reuters Iran’s People Keep Getting Poorer
The country has been hit by a perfect storm of a currency in free fall, economic mismanagement, and impending U.S. sanctions—driving shopkeepers into the streets.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Uneasy Riders: Trump’s War on Harley
The iconic motorcycle-maker’s decision to move some operations overseas isn’t only about the president’s tariffs.
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Omar Sobhani / Reuters How ‘Sesame Street’ Helps Traumatized Children
Resources are also geared toward migrant children at the U.S. border with Mexico.
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Joshua Lott / Reuters The Normalization of Gun Violence in Poor Communities
A company that uses sensors to recognize the sound of gunshots could help solve the epidemic.
