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After a handshake with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the Demilitarized Zone Donald Trump became the first US president to set foot on North Korean soil. Afterwards the two leaders had a conversation in which they agreed to resume the stalled de-nuclearisation talks. Is it all just a big show or could it give peace on the Korean Peninsula a real boost?

Kyriakos Mitsotakis's conservative Nea Dimokratia party currently has the best chances of winning next Sunday's snap election in Greece. Mitsotakis is a member of one of the most influential Greek political dynasties and his party bears a large part of the responsibility for the country's biggest crisis. What is the source of this rekindled trust?

Street battles between the police and homosexuals gathered at the Stonewall Inn gay bar in Christopher Street, New York, at the end of June 1969 are seen as marking the birth of the international LGBTQ movement. Commentators ask what is driving people onto the streets on the 50th anniversary of the riots.

The captain of Sea-Watch 3, Carola Rackete, has been arrested after docking her aid organisation rescue ship on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Politicians and prominent public figures including German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn have harshly criticised Rome for the move. The issue is also making waves in Europe's press.