Trump’s favorite Middle East strongman comes to Washington

Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi’s visit to the White House on Monday will be the first by an Egyptian head of state since 2009 — […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/04/03/trumps-favorite-middle-east-strongman-comes-to-washington/

Brexit could give Spain major bargaining power over Gibraltar

In the shadows of the massive rock pictured above live roughly 30,000 Britons, crowded onto a peninsula whose only land border is with Spain, and by extension, the European Union. Unsurprisingly, almost every single resident of Gibraltar, the United Kingdom's sole continental outpost, voted to remain in the E.U. in last summer's referendum on “Brexit.” […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/04/02/brexit-could-give-spain-major-bargaining-power-over-gibraltar/

A near-no show on Red Square highlights problems of Russia’s protest movement

MOSCOW — Last Sunday, tens of thousands turned out across Russia to protest rampant corruption in the upper echelons of power. It was a thunderous roar that Russians were not happy with President Vladimir Putin's government. This Sunday, small crowds here and there joined in “protest promenades.” It was kind of a whimper. At the rally point outside […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/04/02/a-near-no-show-on-red-square-highlights-problems-of-russias-protest-movement/

Americans’ right to protest is in grave danger under Trump, United Nations warns

The right to protest is fundamental to American democracy. The country was born, after all, out of decades of civil disobedience by people angry about taxation without representation. (In Washington, FWIW, we are still angry.) But according to United Nations human rights investigators, this very basic principle is under attack. Over the past few months, […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/04/02/americans-right-to-protest-is-in-grave-danger-under-trump-united-nations-warns/

Call the Russian Embassy; press 3 for ‘election interference’

Министерство иностранных дел России разработало пилотную аудиозапись автоответчика для российских дипломатических миссий за рубежом pic.twitter.com/eLl8Jgcgzt — МИД России (@MID_RF) April 1, 2017 Don't say Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't have a sense of humor. For April Fools' Day, the Russian Foreign Ministry put out an “official joke” — a video of a proposed voice-mail message […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/04/01/call-the-russian-embassy-press-3-for-election-interference/