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The Guardian
Washington DC and White House agree to scale back Trump ‘takeover’ of city police

The Guardian
Protesters gather in Washington DC as federal law enforcement officers stop drivers

NBC News
Putin gets warm welcome from Trump at Alaska summit

The Guardian
No deal, and no answers, after brief Trump-Putin talks - More

CNN News
Trump and Putin hold joint news conference

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The Guardian
Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt

The Guardian
Trump reportedly called Norwegian minister ‘out of the blue’ to ask about Nobel prize - More

CNN News
New blood pressure guidelines recommend an earlier start to treatment

CBC News
U.K. cops are going undercover as joggers. Will it stop women runners from being harassed?

The Guardian
Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties - More

The Guardian
Emotions run high in frontline Ukrainian city over ceding land to Russia

BBC News
In maps: The war-ravaged Ukrainian territories at the heart of the Trump-Putin summit

BBC News
Passengers escape car hit by drone in Russia

The Guardian
Ukraine says it has bombed Russian ship carrying drone parts at Caspian port

The Guardian
Mali’s junta arrests generals and French national over alleged coup plot - More

The Guardian
African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size

The Guardian
India and Pakistan tensions spill over into contest over whose flagpole is bigger

BBC News
US warns of additional tariffs on India if Trump-Putin peace talks fail

BBC News
Australia and Vanuatu agree to $328m security and business deal

The Associated Press
Today in History: 16 August - More

This Day in Aviation
16 August

France 24
Trump saura en "cinq minutes" si son sommet avec Poutine est un succès

France 24
La chaleureuse poignée de main entre Donald Trump et Vladimir Poutine

Agence France-Presse
Demandes russes, attentes américaines, craintes ukrainiennes : les enjeux du sommet Trump-Poutine

International Commentary

Quinta Jurecic | The Atlantic
Trump’s Revenge Campaign Has a Weakness

Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian
Trump’s DC takeover is a move of staggering hypocrisy

Michael Schuman | The Atlantic
Trump Wants a China Deal That Benefits Him, Not the U.S.

David A. Graham | The Atlantic
The U.S.-Russia Summit Is Already a Win for Putin.

Oleksandr Mykhed | The Guardian
The enormity of the attacks on Ukraine is impossible to grasp. Let me show you the horror of a single day.

Heather Cox Richardson | Substack
Letter from an American

Gaby Hinsliff | The Guardian
Remember when having women in power was supposed to change everything?

Zheng Zeguang | The Guardian
China and Britain shared a mission to fight aggression and fascism. And we can work together today.

Emma Brockes | The Guardian
Of course Mark Zuckerberg is still doing good works – he’s just switched up the definition of ‘good’