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Trump wish of Russian detente dies as Putin expels diplomats

Bloomberg Donald Trump’s first meeting with Vladimir Putin this month seemed to give the US president everything he wanted. The two appeared to get along. There was a modest cease-fire deal on Syria. Moscow’s meddling in the US election was raised, but both leaders were eager to move on. Three weeks later, relations between the US and Russia are at …

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Merkel refugee policy in focus after Hamburg attack

Bloomberg An attack in the northern city of Hamburg thrust Chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy into the spotlight less than two months before Germany goes to the polls. Police were aware that the man suspected of a stabbing spree on Friday had shown of signs radicalization, Hamburg’s interior minister, Andy Grote, said in a press conference on Saturday. The attack …

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EU on ‘road to nowhere’ trying to stop court changes: Poland

Bloomberg Poland rejected the European Union’s move on Saturday for a possible lawsuit to halt the just-passed overhaul of the country’s lower courts, saying the bloc lacked such authority and would ultimately have to turn back. The escalation in an almost two-year row over court independence and the government’s respect for the rule of law opens the way for the …

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