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June 04, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

As we wrap up our Rebuilding Trust project, I wanted to point you all toward Jingnan Peng’s story today. It shows what a powerful lens trust is to understanding the world today. 

I hardly would have thought urban tree planting was a matter of trust. But that’s what Jing found, and it reminds us of a universal fact: Almost any time something is breaking down, rebuilding trust is inevitably one of the essential steps to setting it right.   


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Today’s stories

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Hezbollah commander Hassan Yehya Naameh's daughter Hana, 7, holds a portrait of her dead father and reacts at his casket, in Mahrouna, Lebanon, May 20, 2024. Mr. Naameh and another fighter were killed a day earlier in an Israeli strike near the border.

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Participants compete in wheelchair tennis during Paralympic Day, on the eve of the ticketing launch for the Paralympic Games, at Place de la Republique in Paris, Oct. 8, 2023.
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Rixy, an interdisciplinary street artist, sits in front of her mural “Pa*lante,” meaning “onward,” in Roxbury, a neighborhood in Boston, April 12, 2024.

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Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani

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A person in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday attends the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Taiwan’s newly elected president, Lai Ching-te, stated on Facebook that “the memory of June 4th will not disappear in the torrent of history.”
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us. We’d like to point you to a bonus read for today, from the country of Mauritania, where the Sahara meets the Atlantic coast of Africa. Many there grew up herding livestock, never having seen the ocean. Now, climate change has made them fishermen. You can read the story here

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