Emmanuel Macron, Theresa May, French Open: Your Monday Briefing
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" The wall — which had divided the German capital since 1961 — was a physical
and metaphorical symbol of the ideological and economic differences that separated East and West.
[The New York Times] • In Kosovo, preliminary results suggested a coalition led by
Ramush Haradinaj, the former rebel leader, would win parliamentary elections.
[The New York Times] • Italy’s populist Five Star Movement suffered a severe setback in local
elections, exit polls suggested, undermining its hopes of winning national elections.
[The New York Times] • A son of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Libya’s late dictator,
was released by the militia that had held him captive since the 2011 uprising.
_____ Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain suffered a humiliating setback in the 2017 general election.
• In Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May announced a reshuffled cabinet, as she faces
calls to resign after her Conservatives lost their majority in Parliament last week.
On this day 30 years ago, President Ronald Reagan issued a challenge to the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.