U.S.-russia

Russia’s political and media establishment heralded talks with Trump in Helsinki as a victory for Putin in breaking down Western resolve to treat Russia as a pariah. The praise from Russia’s elite for Putin’s performance contrasted sharply with the reaction in Washington where Trump’s own Republican party accused him of failing to stand up to Putin.

.⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ and ⁦@FLOTUS⁩ arrive back in the US after eventful (to say the least) trip to Europe.

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commentary

The Helsinki summit offered Trump a similar opportunity to that afforded Ronald Reagan at his historic Reykjavik meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, writes David A. Andelman. Instead, "the American president was outfoxed by a wily Russian leader playing from a position of unquestioned strength, toying with a deeply damaged counterpart."

Trump's post-summit press conference in Helsinki will outrage his critics and unsettle European nations – and that may have been its purpose, writes Peter Apps. "Both Moscow and Pyongyang probably now have similar visions of how their relations with the U.S. administration might develop – a series of high-profile periodic meetings in which little is given up or gained, but in which dialogue continues."

World

A Reuters reporter accused of obtaining secret state documents in Myanmar told a court a policeman had called him on the day he was arrested and insisted on a meeting, at which the officer abruptly handed some papers to him and a colleague.

Speed, skill and control are the hallmarks of the greatest players at the World Cup in Russia, but the same could be said of those covering them for the world's media. Eight Reuters photographers recount their favorite images from the tournament and managers describe how it was the most complex sporting event to cover logistically in the history of Reuters.

united states

Lawyers for immigrant families separated at the border by the U.S. government said a federal judge’s order barring rapid deportations until at least next Tuesday would give them breathing room as they struggled for access to clients.

U.S. Representative Martha Roby, a Republican who spurned Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, is fighting for her political life in Alabama on Tuesday in a runoff election against a former Democrat who became a Trump supporter.

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