• “Save your energy Rex.” That was Mr. Trump telling Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state, on Twitter not to bother trying to de-escalate tensions with North Korea. Mr. Tillerson said over the weekend that the U.S. had direct lines of communication with Pyongyang. [The New York Times]

• Western officials said Russian (and Belarusian) military maneuvers last month, known as Zapad, far exceeded in scope and scale what Moscow had said it would conduct. [The New York Times]

• In Britain, leaders of the Conservative Party have gathered for their annual conference. We look at how the party’s most unabashed elitist has developed a cult following. [The New York Times]

• A suspect in the killing of four Americans, including a U.S. ambassador, in the Libyan port city of Benghazi in 2012 will stand trial in Washington today. [The New York Times]

• Khalifa Hifter, the former Libyan Army officer who now controls most of the country’s east, has initiated a political campaign to propel him into government in Tripoli, the capital. [Bloomberg]

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