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In the space of a few hours, Mr. Trump reluctantly agreed to preserve President Barack Obamas nuclear deal with Iran and failed in his effort to repeal Mr. Obamas health care program.

But Mr. Trump hasnt given up. He announced new sanctions on Iran and he called on Congress to simply repeal Mr. Obamas health care program without passing a replacement.

Well let Obamacare fail and then the Democrats are going to come to us, the president said at the White House.

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The Obama administration ordered Russian diplomats to leave two waterfront compounds in New York and Maryland. Now, Russia wants them back.

3. The White House acknowledged that President Trump and Vladimir Putin had an undisclosed private talk at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, but there is no U.S. government record of it. The unreported meeting raises new questions about their relationship.

Meanwhile, the eighth person who attended a June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. was identified as an emissary of a Russian oligarch.

Russia said its patience is wearing thin over two waterfront compounds that the Obama administration seized from Russian diplomats as punishment for Moscows meddling in last years presidential election. The video above explains it.

Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, had called the seizure robbery in broad daylight, and the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said that Russia reserved the right to retaliate against the United States.

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4. China partly blocked WhatsApp in its ever-tightening grip over internet content.

The messaging app was the last of Facebooks major products that still worked in China. It appears to have fallen victim to an online crackdown fed by a perfect storm of politically sensitive news, important events and a new cybersecurity law that went into effect last month.

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5. It took global outcry, two rejections and President Trumps intervention for six teenage girls on an Afghan robotics team to get the U.S. visas to take part in a competition in Washington.

Theyre like superheroes, a competitor from Myanmar said.

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6. Texas lawmakers are gearing up for a special legislative session, where they are likely to decide the fate of a bill regulating the access of transgender people in public restrooms.

But theres more on the line the political future of Joe Straus, the speaker of the Texas House, who has put himself at odds with his fellow Republicans over his resistance to the bill. Mr. Straus is one of the states last moderate Republicans.

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7. My will to survive kicked in.

James Church was fishing off a jetty when he was struck by lightning in Florida, a state that has more lightning strikes and fatalities than any other state.

Here are four tales of survivors with disparate stories that all began with a bolt from the blue.

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8. Mountain roads provide an optimal vantage point to see a bicycle race in person, but theyre difficult to reach. The Tour de France has a longtime tradition of cycling fans camping out in the mountains for days, or even weeks, to claim a coveted place along the course.

The New York Times went up the mountainside of Mont du Chat to join them.

On the soccer field, the second-highest-ranking soccer official with FIFA was arrested and charged with corruption and embezzlement.

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9. Hello Kitty once represented the height of consumer culture, with everything from lunchboxes to hand-held mirrors adorned with the little girl character.

But the Japanese consumer goods brand Sanrio, which debuted the catlike cartoon with a hair bow in 1974, has introduced new characters that have a much more anticapitalist vibe.

One character, Aggretsuko (pronounced ah-GRET-su-KO), chugs beers and performs death metal karaoke as flames spark around her face.

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10. We wrap up the day in Norway with a new food movement: neo-Fjordic cuisine. Why would an ambitious chef open a restaurant in western Norway, where only 3 percent of the land is arable and the growing season is a blip?

The fjords are what make Norway different, the chef, Christopher Haatuft, said. Thats what I want my food to be.

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