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The world watches as Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki

The world’s two disrupters-in-chief started the day trying to out-disrupt each other – President Putin’s opening gambit, arriving an hour late, leaving President Trump twiddling his famously small thumbs.
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Watch Trump and Putin speak ahead of one-on-one meeting

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin speak with the media before they engage in a one-on-one meeting in Helsinki, Finland.

Trump’s UK visit ends in controversy ahead of Putin meeting

Donald Trump has left Scotland after four eventful days in the UK.
This morning he described the EU as the foe of the United States.
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Anderson Cooper: Trump doesn’t know how NATO works

CNN’s Anderson Cooper says that President Trump’s attacks on NATO are predictable, but not based in fact.

US-China Trade War escalates

The United States hits China with a new list of an additional $200 billion on Chinese products to be hit with tariffs. To discuss the new tariffs, Afshin Molavi, a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Foreign Policy Institute; Michael Johns, the Co-founder of the National Tea Party movement; Jessica Stone, CGTN’s White House Correspondent; Victor Gao, the director of the China National Association of International Studies.

Trump asked advisers about invading Venezuela

Last August, President Donald Trump asked several top foreign policy advisers about the possibility of invading Venezuela during a meeting about diplomatic sanctions the US was enacting on the autocratic government, a senior administration official familiar with the comments said.

Senate panel agrees Putin tried to help Trump

Breaking with their House Republican counterparts, the Senate Intelligence Committee said that the intelligence community properly concluded in January of 2017 that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to help Donald Trump when Moscow meddled in the 2016 election.

AMLO, el nuevo presidente electo / Con los de Enfrente

MILENIO y El Universal se unen por primera vez en una alianza entre casas editoriales para debatir sobre temas de coyuntura y elecciones del 1 julio 2018. Los directores editoriales de cada medio, Carlos Marín y David Aponte, así como los periodistas Héctor Zamarrón, Elisa Alanís, Azucena Uresti, Héctor de Mauleón y Juan Pablo Becerra Acosta, de ambos medios abordaron el tema del nuevo presidente electo, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Amanpour: Mexico will have to straddle line with Trump

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour says the election of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as the new president of Mexico is a seismic shift in global politics, but that the leftist leader will have to balance defending his country with maintaining a relationship with President Trump.

Canada reveals retaliatory tariffs

Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland announced the final list of retaliatory tariffs on Canadian products in response to U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum products. The government also announced $2 billion to support the steel and aluminum industries.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains her stunning upset

Sarah Sanders speaks about being asked to leave restaurant

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders addresses being asked to leave a Virginia restaurant, saying “calls for harassment and the push for any Trump supporter to avoid the public is unacceptable.”