Paris, Russia, WikiLeaks: Your Friday Briefing
And we learned why Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who is close to Mr. Trump, secretly met the Turkish president: Mr. Giuliani is representing a Turkish gold trader facing charges in the U.S. _____ • Russia’s Supreme Court declared Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Christian denomination
that rejects violence, an extremist organization, putting its more than 170,000 Russian worshipers in the same category as Islamic State militants.
[The New York Times] • Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s daughter, will visit Berlin next week, the White House said.
[The New York Times] • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a polarizing former president of Iran, was disqualified from the presidential election.
Mr. Trump also said that he would not give the U.S. military a direct role in helping stabilize Libya, rejecting
Mr. Gentiloni’s pleas for assistance in stemming the trafficking of African migrants across the Mediterranean.
[The New York Times] • The U.S. Justice Department is said to be considering charging Julian
Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, for his role in the disclosure of classified information.
"It’s a Jackson Pollock painting in city form." In his adopted state of California, it is decreed by law: "The governor annually shall proclaim April 21 to be ‘John Muir Day.’ " Born in Scotland on this day in 1838, Mr. Muir is perhaps best known for his naturalist writings
and for co-founding the Sierra Club, the largest environmental organization in the United States.
[The New York Times] • In Germany, a 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of carrying
out the bomb attack against a bus carrying members of the Borussia Dortmund soccer team.
