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Article snippet: (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • President Trump is returning to Europe later this week for a visit to Poland and a G-20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany. Antiglobalization protests began peacefully over the weekend. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, had already predicted “very difficult” talks, particularly on climate change. In Washington, Mr. Trump’s top environmental official, Scott Pruitt, has rolled back regulations that he said stymie American business. Mr. Pruitt sidestepped career officials by outsourcing some crucial work to lawyers and lobbyists. And 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. _____ • In France, lawmakers will converge in Versailles today for a speech by Emmanuel Macron, the French president, billed as a new, unusual kind of state of the nation address. Far-left lawmakers said that they would boycott the event, as some accuse Mr. Macron of aspiring to Napoleonic grandeur. His plans to revamp the rigid labor code by decree, largely bypassing Parliament, have sown unease. Mr. Macron, above with the president of Mali, was in Bamako yesterday for the launch of a multinational military force to combat Islamist militants in the Sahel in western Africa. _____ • Our correspondent in Turkey followed a long march of protest against Pres... Link to the full article to read more