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Squabbling and uncertainty cloud NATO’s focus President Trump left NATO’s anniversary celebrations in London early and on the defensive after lashing out over a video that caught Canada’s prime minister and other world leaders apparently venting about him at a reception. But the North Atlantic alliance faces more serious dilemmas …

LEEDS, England — The campaign office is deliberately inconspicuous — tucked above a salon through an unmarked doorway in a 1970s-era shopping center. There are no campaign posters in the windows. Two cameras are trained on the entrance. The door frame was recently reinforced. They are necessary precautions, said Rachel …

The train workers have their own retirement plan, as do the opera workers, the workers at the Comédie-Française — the national theater company — and the workers at the Port of Bordeaux, among others. Most workers are under the private-sector pension plan, in which the state is also heavily involved. …

PARIS — Dozens of graves in the Jewish cemetery in the small Alsatian village of Westhoffen have been found daubed with swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti, the latest in a series of cemetery and synagogue profanations in the region. The historic cemetery, which dates to the 16th century and houses the …

LONDON — For four days in 2018, Veronika Didusenko was hailed as Ukraine’s most beautiful woman. But it wasn’t quite as simple as that. When the organizers of the Miss Ukraine competition found out that she was divorced and had a son, they stripped her of the title — and …

ISTANBUL — The Turkish rock star Gaye Su Akyol took the stage at a venue in the outskirts of Istanbul recently to play to a crowd packed with young women — as might be expected for a singer who has appeared on the cover of magazines such as the Turkish …

BERLIN — The German authorities declared on Wednesday that Russia was suspected of being behind the daylight assassination in Berlin this summer of a former fighter with Chechen separatists, and also expelled two Russian diplomats, adding new strains to relations with Moscow. The announcement deepened concerns about Russian contract killings …

“Italian food is like Japanese food,” he continued. “You can’t just add ingredients everywhere — you destroy years of history. The rule of two-to-three is good: main product, garnish, seasoning.” In the Marché d’Aligre food market, Mr. Tondo entered a butcher shop, Boucherie Les Provinces, and asked if they had …

A Trump-Macron exchange sets a tense tone Widespread anxiety prevailed in the run-up to NATO’s celebration of its 70th anniversary that President Trump, whose criticism of the alliance as obsolete is well known, would upend the meeting with a surprise demand or an insult of an ally, as he has …

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering air pollution in your city, an explosive video from Russia and the French chef who popularized grilled duck breast. Macron puts Trump on the back foot European leaders once stoically bore President Trump’s attacks, and labored …