• Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s president, is traveling to Washington. His office said the visite would include a meeting with President Trump today. [Reuters]

• In Turkey, veteran journalists are being tried on charges of supporting the failed coup last year. [The Guardian]

• Greece, courting Chinese investment, blocked a European effort at the United Nations to highlight Beijing’s human rights abuses. [The New York Times]

• A French and a Kurdish journalist were killed in an explosion while covering the Iraqi Army’s offensive against the Islamic State in Mosul. [France 24]

• Israeli software bought by the Mexican government to fight drug cartels is instead infesting the smartphones of government critics. [The New York Times]

• Thousands of physicists are back to work at CERN’s particle collider on the French-Swiss border. But what if there’s nothing new to discover? [The New York Times]

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