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June 29, 2019

Russia Ukraine Reuters: Putin says Elton John mistaken on Russia LGBT rights - Kyiv Post Bohdan Ben: How Ukraine will try to prove Russia finances terrorism - Kyiv Post Polygraph: Russia did not offer to free Ukrainian sailors it captured - Kyiv Post Gazprom: Ukraine will not have time to sign gas contract in 2019 - 112 International Ukrainian tycoon can be extradited to US, Austrian court rules - The Guardian Reuters: Putin says Elton John mistaken on Russia LGBT rights - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Reuters: Putin says Elton John mistaken on Russia LGBT rights Published June 29. Updated June 29 at 4:12 pm British rock singer-songwriter Elton John poses as he arrives for the screening of the film "Rocketman" at the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 16, 2019. Read More Bohdan Ben: How Ukraine will try to prove Russia finances terrorism - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Russia's War Against Ukraine Bohdan Ben: How Ukraine will try to prove Russia finances terrorism Published June 29. Updated June 29 at 3:48 pm (Archive photo) An armed pro-Russian separatist stands guard in the village of Spartak near the airport of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on April 10, 2015. Read More Polygraph: Russia did not offer to free Ukrainian sailors it captured - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Russia's War Against Ukraine Polygraph: Russia did not offer to free Ukrainian sailors it captured Published June 29 at 10:21 am Captured Ukrainian sailors Yury Budzilo, Sergey Chuliba, Yury Bezyazychny and Bogdan Nebylitsa in the courtroom, in Moscow, Feb. Read More Gazprom: Ukraine will not have time to sign gas contract in 2019 - 112 International 112 International Alexey Miller, the head of the Russian Gazprom, said that Ukraine would not have time to sign a new gas contract before the end of 2019, RIA Novosti reports. According to Miller, Ukraine will not be able to sign a new contract for gas transit until the end of the year under the laws of the European Union. Read More Ukrainian tycoon can be extradited to US, Austrian court rules - The Guardian The Guardian Austria’s highest court has upheld a decision making it possible to extradite Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian tycoon facing bribery-related charges in the US. Before his arrest in 2014, Firtash wielded significant political influence in Ukraine, where he had made a fortune from deals to import gas from Russia and central Asia and built a business empire worth billions. Read More

Top News Top 10 stories of the week: June 24th to 30th June 2019 - MediaNama.com Baidu Learns from Critics to Improve Its News Service - Market Realist IMF Predicts Central Banks to Issue Digital Currencies - Cointelegraph ‘Has anyone tried fixing America with crystals and bee pollen?’: Late-night hosts tackle Marianne Williamson’s surprising debate performance - The Washington Post BREAKING: New Google Document Leaked Describing Shapiro, Prager, as 'nazis using the dogwhistles' - Project Veritas Top 10 stories of the week: June 24th to 30th June 2019 - MediaNama.com MediaNama.com In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 30th June 2019 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: E2E, for their support. Myanmar govt orders internet shutdown in Rakhine and Chin amid escalated tensions Read More Baidu Learns from Critics to Improve Its News Service - Market Realist Market Realist What’s Pressuring NVIDIA’s Gaming Business? WRITTEN BY Puja Tayal NVIDIA (NVDA) has come under pressure since its real-time ray tracing GPUs disappointed. Adoption of its first Turing-based gaming GPUs, launched in September at a premium price, has been slow. Read More IMF Predicts Central Banks to Issue Digital Currencies - Cointelegraph Cointelegraph The International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes that central banks may issue digital currencies in the future, according to a report by the IMF on June 27 According to the full paper, the IMF and World Bank conducted a survey on fintech that solicited answers from financial institutions within all member countries, and has based its conclusions in part upon the 96 received responses. Read More ‘Has anyone tried fixing America with crystals and bee pollen?’: Late-night hosts tackle Marianne Williamson’s surprising debate performance - The Washington Post The Washington Post Marianne Williamson speaks during the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on Thursday. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) Nearly half an hour went by during Thursday’s Democratic debate before Marianne Williamson even had the chance to speak. Read More BREAKING: New Google Document Leaked Describing Shapiro, Prager, as 'nazis using the dogwhistles' - Project Veritas Project Veritas (New York) – Project Veritas has obtained a newly leaked document from Google that appears to show a Google employee and member of Google “transparency-and-ethics” group calling conservative and libertarian commentators, including Dennis Prager and Ben Shapiro, “nazis.” Project Veritas received this document after the release of its investigation into Google through the “Be Brave” campaign at VeritasTips@protonmail.com. Read More

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