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European Leaders’ Rush to Trump-Zelensky Meeting Appears to Have Paid Off

Jolted by President Trump’s support for possible land swaps in Ukraine, they went to back President Volodymyr Zelensky, a move that appeared to have accomplished its goal.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was greeted by President Trump at the White House on Monday.
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In Russia, Putin’s Meeting With Trump Is Seen as Triumph

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. The leaders greeted one another warmly at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.
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In Russia, Putin’s Meeting With Trump Is Seen as Triumph

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. The leaders greeted one another warmly at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.
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What Putin Hopes to Gain From a Summit With Trump

The American leader has agreed to a meeting with the Russian president in Alaska next Friday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.

© Erin Schaff/The New York Times

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Trump at a bilateral meeting at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019.
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A Weakened Hezbollah Resists Pressure to Give Up Its Weapons

The Lebanese militant group has lost much of its power since the recent war with Israel. But it is balking at demands to surrender whatever is left of its once formidable arsenal.

© Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times

Hezbollah supporters in late June in the group’s stronghold of Dahiya on the southern outskirts of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.
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