• A French court is set to rule today on whether Abdelkader Merah, the older brother of a jihadist who shot dead seven people in 2012, was complicit in the killings. [Agence France-Presse]

• An airstrike at a street market in Yemen killed at least 25 civilians, local officials said. [The New York Times]

• Sweden is paying for a former U.S. government official, who resigned in protest over the Trump administration’s climate policy, to attend the U.N.’s climate conference in Germany next week. [Bloomberg]

• Barack Obama left behind a Democratic Party struggling to reconnect with voters in time for the 2018 elections. “We’re just not hearing what’s on people’s minds,” a lawmaker said. [The New York Times Magazine]

• 500 years after Martin Luther started the Reformation, one of our columnists asks who won in the religious dispute. Commercial interests and the authoritarian state, he writes. [The New York Times]

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