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Construction underway on the world’s longest tunnel immersed underwater

Transportation

The Fehmarn Belt Link is set to connect Germany and Denmark through the Baltic Sea by car and train. Developers say the project will fundamentally reshape travel in the EU for the better, cutting the time it takes to get from Hamburg to Copenhagen in half. But German advocates aren’t so sure the benefits outweigh the risks.

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Coalition of small island states makes a case that greenhouse gas emissions are covered by UN Law of the Sea

The Big Fix
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shake hands behind two podiums reading Helsinki 2018

No, the president can’t destroy records. Here’s why.

Klaus Voormann, German born artist and friend to The Beatles

Klaus Voormann’s long history with The Beatles

Music
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Einstein’s handwritten secrets for a happy life auctioned for $1.56 million

Culture
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin talks to President Donald Trump during their bilateral meeting in Germany.

Trump and Putin held a second, undisclosed, conversation while in Germany

Global Politics

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had an additional, previously undisclosed chat, at this month’s G20 summit in Germany.

Donald Trump Jr. arrives at Trump Tower in New York City. January 18, 2017.

Trump’s son ‘met Kremlin-linked lawyer’ during the election campaign

Global Politics

US President Donald Trump said Sunday he wanted to work “constructively” with Russia despite confronting Vladimir Putin over alleged election meddling, as reports broke that his eldest son met a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign.

US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Trump wins concessions, and isolates the US, at the G-20 summit

Economics

World leaders made concessions on trade and climate language to Donald Trump Saturday, at the end of the most fractious and riot-hit G-20 summit ever.

Photo of world leaders at the G20 summit in Germany

Where were the women? In Trump’s foreign policy, female leaders are scarce

Global Politics

In her weekly column, AWL editorial director Christina Asquith surveys how US foreign policy is increasingly becoming a male-dominated arean

President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the their bilateral meeting at the G20 summit in Hamburg.

Trump and Putin meet for the first time at a fractious G-20

Global Politics

President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin shook hands as they met for the first time Friday at a G-20 summit marred by violent protests and a rift between America and its Western allies over climate change and trade.

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