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June 18, 2019

Russia Ukraine French Senate President emphasizes support for Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereignty - UNIAN Verdicts Expected In Extremism Case Against Five Crimean Tatars In Russia - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Russia's Power Grid Is an Easy Target for US Hacking - The Moscow Times Germany insists on gas transit through Ukraine - 112 International Halya Coynash: Another fighter for Ukraine threatened with deportation to Russia | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post French Senate President emphasizes support for Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereignty - UNIAN UNIAN French Senate President emphasizes support for Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereigntyLarcher and Zelensky discussed the creation of "dialogue commission" with the participation of both countries' parliamentarians to develop the relevant international projects. Read More Verdicts Expected In Extremism Case Against Five Crimean Tatars In Russia - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia -- A court in Russia is expected to render verdicts and sentences on June 18 for five Crimean Tatars charged with being members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group that is banned in Russia but legal in Ukraine. Read More Russia's Power Grid Is an Easy Target for US Hacking - The Moscow Times The Moscow Times A report in the New York Times that the U.S. Cyber Command has intensified secret efforts to hack the Russian power grid is less interesting for its content than because of U.S. officials’ apparent cooperation in publicizing the activity. Read More Germany insists on gas transit through Ukraine - 112 International 112 International Germany insists on continuation of gas transit through Ukraine, as the representative of Germany’s Federal Government Steffen Seibert said at the briefing in Berlin, as Ukrinform reported. Read More Halya Coynash: Another fighter for Ukraine threatened with deportation to Russia | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Russia's War Against Ukraine Halya Coynash: Another fighter for Ukraine threatened with deportation to Russia Published June 18 at 11:49 am The photo shows Prosecutor General's Office in Kyiv. Read More

Top News Google to break the deadlock on RCS messaging for Android users - Pocket-lint ‘Very unusual’: Top Trump appointee just intervened to stop Paul Manafort from going to Rikers Island - AlterNet Cannes Nightcap Day One: Nike, Ikea, Google score early Lions; Cannes Buzzword Bingo; Instagram celebrates Pride - AdAge.com Why are fervid Googlers making ad-blocker-breaking changes to Chrome? Because they created a monster – and are fighting to secure it - The Register Genius accuses Google of stealing song lyrics - KoamNewsNow.com Google to break the deadlock on RCS messaging for Android users - Pocket-lint Pocket-lint RCS (rich communication service) is heralded as the next evolution of SMS messaging. It's a service that's designed to replace SMS and MMS, shifting messaging to data and providing a much wider range of connected features.  Read More ‘Very unusual’: Top Trump appointee just intervened to stop Paul Manafort from going to Rikers Island - AlterNet AlterNet Paul Manafort was scheduled to be moved to Rikers Island — until a new Trump appointee stepped in and blocked the move. The newly confirmed Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen — the direct subordinate of Attorney General Bill Barr and the replacement for the embattled Rod Rosenstein — reached out and intervened to prevent President Donald Trump’s former campaign chair from being sent to the notoriously dangerous New York jail, the New York Times reported on Monday. Read More Cannes Nightcap Day One: Nike, Ikea, Google score early Lions; Cannes Buzzword Bingo; Instagram celebrates Pride - AdAge.com AdAge.com And so it begins. The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity kicked off today in the south of France and, as always, Ad Age has an editorial team on the ground there—Ann-Christine Diaz, Alexandra Jardine, Alfred Maskeroni, I-Hsien Sherwood, Max Sternlicht, Lindsay Rittenhouse, Jack Neff and George Slefo—to offer you exhaustive (and exhausting) coverage. Read More Why are fervid Googlers making ad-blocker-breaking changes to Chrome? Because they created a monster – and are fighting to secure it - The Register The Register Analysis In a mild PR blitz, Google engineers this month insisted the ad giant's shake up of Chrome browser extensions won't kill advert blockers. Instead, we're told, Googlers are making the plugins safer. Read More Genius accuses Google of stealing song lyrics - KoamNewsNow.com KoamNewsNow.com From Google via CNN Related stories BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Music-annotation website Genius is accusing Google of stealing lyrics from its website and publishing them in search results. Genius is a Brooklyn-based company that transcribes and analyzes lyrics from popular songs on its website. Read More

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