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March 05, 2019
Ukraine drops Rakitskiy from national team after Russia move – media - UNIAN
Female Russian tank commander defects to Ukraine after 'falling for honeytrap' - Mirror Online
Ukrainian archbishop to attend court hearings in Russia in Pavlo Hryb case – political prisoner's father - UNIAN
Donbas death toll rises as Ukraine reports another soldier killed in action Monday - UNIAN
Hacking Lawsuit Targets Russian-Born Trump Associate - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

Ukraine drops Rakitskiy from national team after Russia move – media - UNIAN

UNIAN
Ukraine drops Rakitskiy from national team after Russia move – mediaUkraine coach Andriy Shevchenko hasn't explained the decision to drop Rakitskiy, who has played 54 times for his country, however the Zenit signing had prompted criticism among Ukrainian fans.
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Female Russian tank commander defects to Ukraine after 'falling for honeytrap' - Mirror Online

Mirror Online
A famed woman tank commander fighting for pro-Vladimir Putin rebels has defected to Ukraine after being recruited in a “honeytrap”, it is claimed. Svetlana Dryuk, 40, says she has handed Kiev details of Russian battle plans for a “full-scale invasion” of Ukraine with 100,000 ground troops inside the country in four hours.
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Ukrainian archbishop to attend court hearings in Russia in Pavlo Hryb case – political prisoner's father - UNIAN

UNIAN
Ukrainian archbishop to attend court hearings in Russia in Pavlo Hryb case – political prisoner's fatherThe hearings will be held in Rostov-on-Don next week, Ihor Hryb said. Photo from UNIAN
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Donbas death toll rises as Ukraine reports another soldier killed in action Monday - UNIAN

UNIAN
Donbas death toll rises as Ukraine reports another soldier killed in action Monday09:20, 05 March 2019 War 0 0 According to intelligence reports, four enemy troops were eliminated and another one was wounded.
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Hacking Lawsuit Targets Russian-Born Trump Associate - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
A Russia-born businessman with ties to President Donald Trump has been targeted in a U.S. lawsuit that accuses him of hacking into a Hollywood friend's electronics and accessing confidential information about her celebrity contacts.
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Virtual news reader to human-sounding Google Duplex: 5 AIs that impressed and scared humans - Hindustan Times
March security patch for Pixels fixes camera and Bluetooth issues, Essential Phone gets Digital Wellbeing - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com
MoviePass competitor Sinemia is terminating accounts, and some subscribers are bewildered and upset - Business Insider
Are Men at Google Paid Less Than Women? Not Really - WIRED
Google plans to ban political ads before Canada election - Reuters Canada

Virtual news reader to human-sounding Google Duplex: 5 AIs that impressed and scared humans - Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times
Artificial Intelligence (AI) or futuristic tech as we may call it, is one innovation that is only developing to get bigger and better. AI flaunts the capabilities of technology and how it can mimic or eventually perfect tasks humans do.
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March security patch for Pixels fixes camera and Bluetooth issues, Essential Phone gets Digital Wellbeing - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com

GSMArena.com
Right on time, as it's the first Monday of the month, Google has today sent out the March security update for its Pixel devices. Except this time around it's not all about security, the company's phones should also be receiving some functional updates.
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MoviePass competitor Sinemia is terminating accounts, and some subscribers are bewildered and upset - Business Insider

Business Insider
MoviePass competitor Sinemia terminated a slew of accounts over the past week, and some subscribers are furious. Several people have contacted Business Insider over the past few days, claiming their subscriptions to the movie-ticket service were canceled unfairly.
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Are Men at Google Paid Less Than Women? Not Really - WIRED

WIRED
At the end of every year, Google conducts a pay equity analysis to determine whether employees of different sexes and races who are doing similar jobs are being paid equally. On Monday, Google published a blog post with selected findings from its 2018 analysis, highlighting that proposed changes for 2019 would have paid male engineers less than female engineers in one lower-level job category, referred to internally as Level 4 engineers.
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Google plans to ban political ads before Canada election - Reuters Canada

Reuters Canada
A Google logo is displayed at the entrance to the internet based company's offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 9, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Helgren (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Google will ban political advertising on its platform before the Canadian federal election, after the country introduced stringent transparency rules.
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