England survive Mexico storm and red card to win 3-2 at Azteca, reach World Cup quarters · Pollar

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Ankara, Kyiv and Bavi collide

NATO courts Trump as Kyiv reels, islands brace and oil producers reopen taps

The next NATO summit has become less a celebration of unity than an exercise in managing Donald Trump. Around it, wars, storms and markets moved fast: Kyiv took another heavy strike, Guam prepared for a Category 5-equivalent typhoon and oil producers tried to put the Hormuz shock behind them.

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The US under Trump: second term

The scheduled meeting between President Trump and President Zelenskyy at the NATO summit indicates a direct US diplomatic effort to address the conflict in Ukraine within the transactional foreign policy framework.

England survive Mexico storm and red card to win 3-2 at Azteca, reach World Cup quarters · Pollar