Results are slowly emerging, but the question dogging Europe is whether the continent can convince Trump it isn't free-riding, as he has said it is. Campaigning in Las Vegas on Saturday, Trump criticized Europeans for insufficient military spending.


Netanyahu Puts Political Survival Ahead of Tough Decisions on Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing one of the toughest political decisions of his long career: who should govern Gaza after Hamas?

So far he's dodging it.


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