Unscripted Moments Steal the Show at Trump-Kim Singapore Summit

President Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Tuesday, after their lunch on Sentosa Island in Singapore.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times

The president of the United States pulled out an iPad and showed the leader of North Korea a slick, Hollywood-style trailer presenting the North’s possible future.

Vague on Details, Trump Is Betting on ‘Special Bond’ With Kim to Deliver Deal

President Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, on Sentosa Island in Singapore on Tuesday.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times

On paper, there is nothing President Trump extracted from North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, in their summit meeting that Mr. Kim’s father and grandfather had not already given to past American presidents.

Trump Says Kim Jong-un Sees Shared Path After Historic Talks

Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump during a signing ceremony on Sentosa Island in Singapore on Tuesday.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump concluded a historic meeting with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, on Tuesday, saying that denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula would begin “very quickly.”

Ukraine Approves Anticorruption Court in Bid to Unblock Foreign Aid

Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk of Ukraine addressed lawmakers in Kiev on Thursday before they voted to dismiss him.CreditValentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

After months of foot-dragging that exasperated its Western backers, Ukraine on Thursday adopted legislation that opens the way for the establishment of an independent anticorruption court.

The move, long demanded by the International Monetary Fund and Western governments, could help unblock billions of dollars in assistance frozen because of Western dissatisfaction with Ukraine’s failure to deliver on promises to tackle endemic graft and cronyism.

At the same time, however, the Parliament in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, also voted to dismiss the country’s finance minister, Oleksandr Danylyuk, an outspoken champion of measures to curb corruption in Ukraine’s fiscal and customs service.

The votes by legislators — one signaling a major step forward in Ukraine’s on-again off-again struggle against corruption, the other a serious setback — added to a growing sense of muddle in Kiev. Last week, Ukrainian authorities announced that a dissident Russian journalist had been murdered in the Ukrainian capital, only for the journalist to appear very much alive the next day at a press briefing.

North Korea Razes Missile Test Facility Ahead of Meeting With Trump

A photograph released by North Korea’s state news agency purporting to show the launch of a Pukguksong-2 missile at an undisclosed location on Feb. 12, 2017. North Korea used the now-razed Kusong site to launch such missiles.CreditKorean Central News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Satellite imagery indicates that North Korea is razing some facilities used for testing one of its most dangerous missiles after its leader, Kim Jong-un, announced a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests, according to an analysis released this week.

A “key missile test stand” that was used for testing missile ejections from canisters was demolished at a test site near Kusong in North Korea’s northwest, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., an expert on the country’s weapons systems, said in a report published Wednesday on the website 38 North.

The Kusong test site was being closely monitored by missile experts because North Korea launched its first solid-fuel midrange ballistic missile, known as Pukguksong-2, from there in February last year.

Besides its intercontinental ballistic missiles, solid-fuel missiles have been among the most worrisome additions to North Korea’s growing arsenal of ballistic missiles. They can be launched faster and are easier to transport and hide, making them more suitable for surprise attacks.

Deal for Macedonia Name? High Treason, Some Greeks Say

Tens of thousands of people protested in Thessaloniki, Greece, earlier this year against allowing a neighboring Balkan country to use the name Macedonia.CreditNicolas Economou/NurPhoto, via Getty Images

To understand how deeply the name Macedonia is embedded in the Greek psyche, look no further than Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki. It’s the capital of the northern region of Macedonia, the historical center of a long-running feud with the neighboring country of Macedonia, whose claim to the name is the focus of United Nations-mediated negotiations.

Hong Kong Marks Tiananmen Crackdown, as China Ignores Event

Tens of thousands of people attended the annual candlelight vigil at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park, on Monday, to mark the 29th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.CreditKin Cheung/Associated Press

Tens of thousands of pro-democracy activists turned out in Hong Kong Monday to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, observing an event that goes largely unmentioned in mainland China.

A Trump-Kim Deal Could Send China’s Trade With North Korea Soaring

A luxury apartment complex in Dandong, China, near the border with North Korea, last month. A big screen played footage on a loop of a meeting between President Xi Jinping of China and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.CreditYan Cong for The New York Times

In the Chinese border town of Hunchun, garment factories gladly employ squads of North Koreans, who are valued as skilled and dutiful workers. Live crab from the North wriggle in huge tanks in the fish market. Informal bankers promise to deliver the equivalent of thousands of dollars in Chinese currency to North Koreans across the border in a matter of hours.

U.S. Army Veteran Tried to Spy for China, Officials Say

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where Ron Rockwell Hansen of Syracuse, Utah, was arrested on Saturday, just before he entered the airport to board a connecting flight to China.CreditRuth Fremson/The New York Times

Tens of thousands of dollars in cash. Documents listing locations of United States Cyber Command outposts. A passcode-protected thumb drive, hidden behind a sock in the toe of a shoe.

More Afghan Children Are Out of School, Reversing a Trend

Afghan children outside their school in Kunduz Province last July. A Unicef study finds that the number of out-of-school children has risen for the first time since 2002.CreditJim Huylebroek for The New York Times

Even with all the rising measures of mayhem in Afghanistan’s long war — civilian casualties, suicide bombings and refugees, to name a few — the number of children out of school had been falling. Until now.