CL A British court jailed a Hong Kong trade official on Friday, drawing a pointed response from Admiralty before the afternoon was out. The exchange was formal on both sides, as these things always are, but in this city the question of what British courts have jurisdiction over, and who gets to decide, has never been a settled one.-- CL

MB Versailles is a peculiar venue for a Middle East truce, but the symbolism was the point. Ukraine launched the war's largest drone strike on the same day, which is less a contradiction than a clarification: the states with the prestige to host a peace ceremony are not always the states with the leverage to enforce one.-- MB