| What’s gained when White Helmet rescuers are rescued Posted: 23 Jul 2018 12:49 PM PDT ![What's gained when White Helmet rescuers are rescued]( "What's gained when White Helmet rescuers are rescued") It was a daring rescue of some of the world's most daring rescuers. Over the weekend, a team of countries worked together to arrange the evacuation of volunteer rescue workers known as White Helmets from immediate threat in Syria. For years the volunteers, officially called the Syria Civil Defense and famous for their white hard hats, have rushed to save civilians trapped in the rubble caused by airstrikes from Syrian warplanes.
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| Helsinki: the promise and peril of upending diplomatic tradition Posted: 23 Jul 2018 10:54 AM PDT ![Helsinki: the promise and peril of upending diplomatic tradition]( "Helsinki: the promise and peril of upending diplomatic tradition") There can be no question about the most jarring difference between last week's US-Russia summit and those that have gone before: the tone and tenor of US President Trump's final news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. To borrow a line from Star Trekkers, Mr. Trump is practicing summitry … but not as we know it. The key question, especially with the announcement that Mr. Putin is being invited for a further meeting in Washington this fall, is whether the promise in the new approach will outweigh the peril.
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| Can the center hold? Susan Collins and the high wire act of being a moderate Posted: 23 Jul 2018 10:46 AM PDT ![Can the center hold? Susan Collins and the high wire act of being a moderate]( "Can the center hold? Susan Collins and the high wire act of being a moderate") On an overcast morning this spring, Maine's Republican Sen. Susan Collins is visiting with students in grades 2 through 4 at the Leroy H. Smith School here in Winterport, just outside Bangor. The children have filed into the school gym and sit cross-legged on the wooden floor as she narrates a "day in the life" slide show of her job as a United States senator. Here she is at a bill-signing ceremony with President Barack Obama (and who is that on the other side of the president?
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