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U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, and his wife Brigitte Macron tour Napoleon Bonaparte’s Tomb at Les Invalides in Paris, France, July 13, 2017.

Trump’s trip to Paris is filled with pomp and circumstance

Global Politics

President Donald Trump began his whirlwind trip to Paris on Thursday. And the itinerary is packed with enough grandeur to satisfy even a former pageant king.

Hiroshima residents release paper lanterns on the Motoyasu river facing the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome in remembrance of atomic bomb victims on the 67th anniversary of the bombing.

Japanese and Americans remember the closing chapter of World War II so very differently

Justice
Baby Eva has yet to meet her Pakistani grandmother.

A Pakistani mom sets out to visit her new American granddaughter, and is turned back at the visa counter

Justice
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meet at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.

Putin makes Assad an offer he can’t refuse

Conflict
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