Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Poland: Your Wednesday Briefing
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Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Poland: Your Wednesday Briefing
[The New York Times] • Beware the fidget spinner: State-run news outlets in Russia speculated
that the toy was part of an opposition plot to "zombify people." [The New York Times] Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life.
Days after the evacuation, Winston Churchill, the British prime minister, warned Parliament
that "wars are not won by evacuations." But Churchill ended his address with one of his most recognizable and inspiring quotes: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Palko Karasz contributed reporting.
[The New York Times] • Ángel María Villar, the president of the Spanish soccer federation
and a FIFA vice president, was arrested and charged with corruption and embezzlement.
[The New York Times] • Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, condemned Turkey for the pretrial detention of a German
security consultant who was arrested, along with human rights activists, at a security workshop in Istanbul.
[The New York Times] • Two mummified bodies in a Swiss glacier, dressed in well-preserved
clothes from the World War II era, could solve a decades-old mystery.
[The New York Times] • In Saudi Arabia, the police arrested a woman who wore a miniskirt in a widely circulated video.
[The New York Times] • Beware the fidget spinner: State-run news outlets in Russia speculated
that the toy was part of an opposition plot to "zombify people." [The New York Times] Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life.
Days after the evacuation, Winston Churchill, the British prime minister, warned Parliament
that "wars are not won by evacuations." But Churchill ended his address with one of his most recognizable and inspiring quotes: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Palko Karasz contributed reporting.
[The New York Times] • Ángel María Villar, the president of the Spanish soccer federation
and a FIFA vice president, was arrested and charged with corruption and embezzlement.
[The New York Times] • Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, condemned Turkey for the pretrial detention of a German
security consultant who was arrested, along with human rights activists, at a security workshop in Istanbul.
[The New York Times] • Two mummified bodies in a Swiss glacier, dressed in well-preserved
clothes from the World War II era, could solve a decades-old mystery.
[The New York Times] • In Saudi Arabia, the police arrested a woman who wore a miniskirt in a widely circulated video.
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