Unrest Spreads in U.S., Merkel’s Patience Tested
Protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Aug. 26.
Photographer: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
While President Donald Trump was pitching a second term to his Republican base, U.S. cities were gripped by protests against police brutality and racial inequality sparked by the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake.
In Berlin, tensions were also rising, with concerns over the deepening political crisis in Belarus and Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny — in an induced coma in a clinic in the German capital after an alleged poisoning — dominating Chancellor Angela Merkel’s annual summer address.