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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: • Days of angry protests in the Palestinian territories ebbed, but there were rallies in cities across the world to denounce President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Militant extremist leaders vowed bloodshed. (In Sweden, a masked gang hurled Molotov cocktails at a synagogue.) Our Jerusalem bureau chief described a city braced for more turmoil. “You feel like you’re living in jail here,” one resident told him. President Emmanuel Macron of France, carving out a more assertive global role, called the American announcement a “dangerous threat to peace” as he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. Mr. Netanyahu is expected in Brussels today. _____ • In the skies over war-torn Syria, Russian fighter jets have flown dangerously close to American warplanes over the past month, risking collisions and confrontation, as rival forces converge on the last stronghold of Islamic State militants in the country. De-miners face an arduous task in removing improvised explosive devices left behind by the militant group, which took the manufacturing of such weapons to a new level. (The results included booby-trapped teddy bears and copies of the Quran; and chemical rockets.) In neighboring Iraq, the residents of Mosul are pulling together to rebuild the city as the government declared it had ousted ISIS from the country. _____ • Sixty in... Link to the full article to read more