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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: • In Sweden, more robots are taking jobs, but workers are confident that they too will benefit from increased automation. As Swedish employers have prospered, workers have consistently gained a proportionate slice of the spoils — a stark contrast to the United States and Britain, where wages have stagnated while corporate profits have soared. Yet, even if robots create more jobs than they eliminate, large numbers of people are going to need to pursue new careers. _____ • In a break from fighting, Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists carried out their biggest prisoner exchange since the conflict began in 2014. The exchange came just days after the Trump administration agreed to provide weapons to Ukraine. That move, Moscow said, would only escalate a conflict that has killed more than 10,000 people. In an Op-Ed, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wrote that “there cannot be business as usual with Russia” unless there’s peace in Ukraine. _____ • Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, abandoned a softened approach toward President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, calling Mr. Assad a “terrorist” with no place in Syria’s postwar future. Mr. Erdogan may have intended his remarks as a message to Russia, Mr. Assad’s ally, that it cannot dictate Syria’s postwar future, most notably on issues involving Syria’s Kurdish groups. But even as Mr. Erdogan spoke, his government was f... Link to the full article to read more