“If Trump says, ‘Let bygones be bygones because we have a world to run,’ that is essentially what Moscow needs from this,” one analyst said.
• British investigators believe the same military unit used to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election may also be responsible for the nerve agent attack in Britain against a former Russian spy in March.
The attack was probably carried out by current or former agents of the service, known as the G.R.U., officials said. British investigators are closing in on identifying the individuals they believe poisoned the former spy, Sergei V. Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia.
But officials have not ruled out the possibility that another Russian intelligence agency, or privatized spinoff, could be responsible.
• “He told me I should sue the E.U.”
Prime Minister Theresa May revealed the advice President Trump had given her on how to negotiate Britain’s withdrawal from the E.U.: Go straight to court.
In her comments to the BBC, Mrs. May appeared to be pushing back against Mr. Trump, who had criticized her for ignoring his suggestion.
Twitter had a field day during Mr. Trump’s visit to Britain, including when the president momentarily seemed to (gasp!) walk in front of Queen Elizabeth II. And a paraglider was arrested after unfurling a banner that read “Trump Well Below Par” over his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland.
• No touching, no nicknames, no sharing food. Those are the rules for thousands of migrant children held in U.S. detention centers as they await reunification with their families after crossing the border with Mexico. Above, Yoselyn Bulux, 15, originally from Guatemala, was separated from her mother at the border. [The New York Times]
• Documents obtained by the Israeli government through a covert operation indicate that the Iranian nuclear weapons program was larger and more sophisticated than once suspected. [The New York Times]
• An Irish photographer’s drone captured signs, exposed by drought conditions in the soil, of a 5,000-year-old monument in a field north of Dublin. [The New York Times]
• Haiti’s prime minister resigned over his handling of a plan to raise fuel prices that set off a wave of deadly protests. [The New York Times]
• Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service saved nearly 500 people over the weekend as they tried to cross a narrow stretch of the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa. [Associated Press]
• Cambridge, the English university town, is home to about 120 cattle. The urban herds have become another emblem of the city’s distinction. “Seeing a cow gives a kind of rural feeling, the momentary illusion of being out in the country,” a librarian said.
• A group of Muslim women in Zanzibar was told not to play soccer. Instead, they formed a team. Their resistance to criticism has brought them together into what they say feels like the beginning of a movement.
• What happens when you lose the key to a temple with millions of dollars’ worth of gold? Our reporters went to the Jagganath Temple in India, where a missing key to a treasure vault set off a scandal that has shaken Hindus’ trust.
Finland became part of the Russian Empire in 1809 after being ruled by Sweden for almost 700 years. It gained independence in 1917 (the country celebrated its 100th anniversary last December with a national coffee break and patriotic karaoke).
Peace with the newly established Soviet Union did not last, with the two countries fighting two conflicts during World War II. The first was a Soviet invasion called the Winter War, which was fought in temperatures exceeding minus 40. (That conflict inspired The Times to write about the Finnish cultural trait of sisu, calling it a “special kind of strong will.”)
Finland battled the Soviet Union again from 1941 to 1944. Above, Finnish troops in 1941.
As a neutral party in the Cold War, Finland hosted numerous meetings between U.S. and Soviet leaders. But it was careful not to risk its sovereignty by antagonizing its powerful neighbor, a policy Western scholars called “Finlandization.”
[NY Times]
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