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By stunning the world after seven decades of war and enmity, the projected face-to-face rendezvous between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would immediately take its place in the historic pantheon of electrifying summits between sworn foes.

From World War Two’s Yalta gathering through U.S.-Soviet summits in the Cold War, President Nixon’s trip to Chairman Mao’s China and various attempts to forge peace among Israeli, Egyptian and Palestinian leaders, the art of the summit has long been a rare and rarified moment where the world stops agape.

BEIRUT (AP) — An aid convoy crossed into the embattled rebelheld suburbs of Damascus Friday, delivering desperately needed aid despite heavy fighting that broke out “extremely close” to the convoy and renewed airstrikes by the Syrian government.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said the close-range fighting came despite security guarantees from the parties involved in the conflict that humanitarian aid could enter the town of Douma, in eastern Ghouta.

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s center-left Social Democrats announced Friday they’re nominating the mayor of one of Berlin’s toughest districts among six ministers the party will have in the country’s next government.

Franziska Giffey is considered a rising star within the party and will take charge of the Families Ministry — the first ministerial position held by Chancellor Angela Merkel from 1991 to 1994. Like Merkel, Giffey was born in the former East Germany.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers have approved a bill that would end most child marriages.

The House voted 109-1 on Friday for the bill, which would prohibit anyone under the age of 17 from getting married.

The measure emerged after a compromise with the Senate, which originally voted to ban marriages of anyone under 18.

The bill says anyone marrying a 17-year-old can’t be more than two years older, and minors need parental consent.