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Morning Brief: Trump Invites Putin to Washington

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Morning Brief: Trump Invites Putin to Washington

Top News: Despite continuing controversy over his Monday encounter with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump invited his Russian counterpart to the White House for a second meeting.

The Russian Ambassador to the United States said that Moscow is open to the possibility.

The full details of what the two leaders discussed on Monday have yet to emerge. “Until we know what happened at that two-hour meeting in Helsinki, the president should have no more one-on-one interactions with Putin,” said Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer.

Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats laughed when told about the invitation during a live interview. “That’s going to be special,” he remarked.

The Russian president last visited the United States in 2015 when he met with President Barack Obama on the sidelines of U.N. General Assembly in New York.

Singapore: Hackers have stolen the health records of 1.5 million people in Singapore, including those of the Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Authorities said it was the largest data breach the country has ever faced.

AFRICA

•  Twitter has appointed Nigeria’s former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to its board of directors.

•  Cameroon arrested four soldiers for killing two women and two children. A video of the shootings was shared widely on social media prompting an international outcry.

•  In a rare mass trial in Senegal, more than a dozen people were sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for financing extremism and other offenses.

AMERICAS

•  Microsoft revealed that at least three U.S. congressional candidates have been targeted by hackers, the first publicly known attempts to interfere in the midterm elections.

•  At least 11 people were killed when a tourist boat capsized in Missouri.

•  The head of Peru’s judicial branch resigned Thursday in the wake of a brewing corruption scandal.

ASIA

•  WhatsApp announced it will limit the number of times a message can be forwarded in India in a bid to curb the spread of false information via the messaging app.

•  Vietnam will deport student Will Nguyen to the United States, after he was detained last month during an anti-China protest.

•  South Korea’s former President Park Geun-hye has been sentenced to a further eight years in prison for corruption.

EUROPE

•  French President Emmanuel Macron fired one of his top security officers, who was filmed beating a young man during a protest in May.

•  Russian security services raided a space research center after a suspected leak of hypersonic missile secrets to western spies.

•  German Chancellor Angela Merkel described her country’s relationship with the United States as crucial, but said that Washington could no longer be relied upon to deliver world order.

MIDDLE EAST

•  The United States and its allies are preparing to evacuate hundreds of members of the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defense group, from southwest Syria.

•  Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to meet leaders in the United Arab Emirates in his first visit to the country.

•  Syrian rebels have agreed to surrender their control of the frontier with Israel.

- By Amy Mackinnon

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