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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and President Putin in Sochi today Tuesday. Observers think he will propose a meeting between Trump and Putin at the G-20 at the end of June. Trump cancelled the last meeting after the incident in the Kerch Strait. Russian commentators ask whether relations between the two superpowers are on the mend.

The trade war between the US and China is coming to a head. Settlement talks ended last week without results. Shortly beforehand Trump had raised import duties on Chinese goods to 25 percent. Beijing announced countermeasures, threatening Washington with further tariffs. What's behind this conflict and what damage is it doing?

Facebook has set up a new "Election Operation Center" in Dublin to counter vote manipulation ahead of the EU elections. After being tipped off by the NGO Avaaz the company blocked 23 Italian user accounts with almost 2.5 million followers that were spreading false information about migrants online. Is this enough?

A Polish documentary shows victims of sexual abuse by members of the clergy confronting their abusers with their crimes. The two-hour video with the title "Don't tell anyone" was financed by crowd funding and was viewed millions of times within just two days. Europe's commentators discuss the consequences of the film.

The children of dead or imprisoned IS fighters bear no responsibility for their parents' crimes. In the debate over whether these children should be returned to their parents' countries of origin, European commentators look back to the period after the end of WWII.