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              Donald Trump’s attorneys attempted to portray Michael Cohen as an opportunist.
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          Michael Cohen described a hush-money deal
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          Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer, returned to the stand yesterday to face lawyers for the Manhattan district attorney’s office, as well as Donald Trump’s legal team, in the case against the former president.
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          Cohen told jurors that he received monthly checks
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          — most bearing the former president’s signature — that purported to be part of a legal “retainer” agreement, but that were in fact reimbursements for hush money he had paid to the porn star Stormy Daniels, who alleges that she had a sexual relationship with Trump. Cohen’s testimony was the first and only personal account tying Trump to the documents at the crux of his case.
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          In a barrage of questions, Trump’s attorneys sought to portray Cohen as an opportunist. Trump’s lead lawyer, Todd Blanche, pressed Cohen about his social media posts, his efforts to monetize his feud with the former president, his own criminal history and his desire to see Trump behind bars.
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          Analysis:
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          The defense seemed to be trying to portray Cohen as, “essentially, Trump’s stalker,” my colleague Maggie Haberman wrote — a man once obsessed with the former president who was now equally obsessed with getting revenge.
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          What’s next:
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          Trump’s lawyers indicated that they could call an expert witness and that they had not decided if they would call Trump himself.
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          Other details:
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          In a blow to Trump, an appeals court
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              The Defense Ministry, in Moscow.
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          Russia widened its purge of the Defense Ministry
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          Russian security agents
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          detained Lt. Gen. Yuri Kuznetsov
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          , a senior general, early yesterday on an accusation of “large-scale” bribery, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee, a federal law enforcement agency. His detention came days after Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, unexpectedly replaced his long-serving defense minister, Sergei Shoigu.
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          Prosecutors said that General Kuznetsov received a bribe from “commercial interests” between 2021 and 2023, when he was working on the protection of state secrets. The prosecutors claimed that security agents discovered cash equivalent to $1 million and luxury items during a search of his home.
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          Global diplomacy:
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          Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state,
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          made a surprise visit
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          to Kyiv yesterday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin of Russia
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          is expected to go to China
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          later this week to visit Xi Jinping, China’s leader.
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          Ukraine:
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          Last month, Russian soldiers suddenly showed up in the small town of Ocheretyne.
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          It was clear that something had gone wrong
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              The U.N. now cites 4,959 women and 7,797 children killed.
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          U.N. adjusted its death toll in Gaza
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          The U.N. has begun
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          citing a much lower death toll
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          for women and children in Gaza, acknowledging that it has incomplete information about the casualties during Israel’s war on the territory.
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          The organization now cites 4,959 women and 7,797 children killed, down from at least 9,500 women and 14,500 children earlier this month. While the total number of casualties — roughly 35,000 — remained broadly the same, a U.N. official said that the organization was awaiting more identifying information for about 10,000 of the dead, so they were not included in the new breakdown.
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          Background:
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          The change came because the U.N. switched to citing a more conservative source for its numbers. The change has added fuel to a debate over the credibility of those figures, though many international officials and experts say that the numbers are generally reliable.
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          Gaza:
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