Damascus, CNN, George Pell: Your Morning Briefing
[The New York Times] • Jeff Horn stunned audiences around the world by defeating Manny Pacquiao for the world welterweight title.
[The New York Times] • The U.S. rejected visa applications for an all-girl robotics
team from Afghanistan, so their ball-sorting robot will compete without them.
_____ • "I hope that everyone will speak up and fight, overcome their own fears to build a better country."
That final statement of the Vietnamese blogger known as Mother Mushroom, made as she was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week, has been reposted thousands of times on Facebook, evidence of defiance of the government’s efforts to control dissent on the internet.
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_____ • Mr. Trump’s contentious relationship with the mainstream news media took on disturbing
overtones after he posted a cartoonish video that depicts him wrestling "CNN" to the ground.
The U.S. decision to approve $1.4 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, announced during Mr. Xi’s visit to Hong Kong, signals
that Mr. Trump is assuming a more aggressive stance in Asia with both allies and adversaries.