5 Top Reads

The Amazon is ablaze, world leaders convene for the G-7, and Nigeria marks a global health milestone.

Enforced calm in Kashmir, protests continue in Hong Kong, and Trump goes for Greenland.

A crisis unfolds in Kashmir, the U.S.-China trade war escalates (again), and the United States grapples with back-to-back mass shootings.

The U.S.-China trade war reignites, the Fed takes bold action, and a U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty comes to an end.

Boris Johnson becomes Britain’s prime minister, Donald Trump wades into the Kashmir conflict, and the Ebola epidemic in Congo rages on.

Japan and South Korea continue a historic dispute while Turkey exits the F-35 program amid tensions with the United States.

The British ambassador to the United States exits the stage, and Europe tries to salvage the Iran nuclear deal.

Trump’s Washington celebrates a militaristic Fourth of July, protests surge in Hong Kong, and the European Union chooses new leadership.

World leaders converged at the G-20 summit in Osaka, the Trump administration released its Middle East peace plan, and Democratic presidential contenders took the debate stage.

Trump backs down from Iran strikes, the Pentagon gets a new chief, and Istanbul returns to the polls.

Fallout continues after tanker attacks, protests rage in Hong Kong, and talks resume in Sudan.

Chaos worsens in Sudan, Theresa May exits No. 10 Downing St., and the United States marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day.