This NPR News segment covers key international developments, including U.S.-China diplomatic talks yielding limited trade gestures, the killing of a top ISIS commander in Nigeria via a U.S.-led airstrike, a U.S. Supreme Court decision blocking Virginia Democrats' redistricting map, Venezu
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