News / MN Newsletter // July 24

July 24, 2019

Russia Ukraine Halya Coynash: Russia turns mass grave into 'sightseeing location' - Kyiv Post Halya Coynash: Russia confirms an effective death sentence on Hryb - Kyiv Post Ukraine on the Cusp of Change - NewsClick Russian Wheat Optimism Is Fading as Heat Shrinks Bumper Crop - Bloomberg Ukraine president's party gets solid parliament majority - Minneapolis Star Tribune Halya Coynash: Russia turns mass grave into 'sightseeing location' - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Halya Coynash: Russia turns mass grave into ’sightseeing location’ Published July 24. Updated July 24 at 2:29 pm A picture taken on August 5, 2018 shows a grave of a person killed in 1937 in the Sandarmokh, a memorial site in a pine forest in the Karelia region, at the Russian and Finnish border, where mass graves from the 1930's and bodies from 1940's have been found. Read More Halya Coynash: Russia confirms an effective death sentence on Hryb - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Russia's War Against Ukraine Halya Coynash: Russia confirms an effective death sentence on Hryb Published July 24 at 10:58 am The photo, released on March 22, shows Pavlo Hryb in Russian court. Read More Ukraine on the Cusp of Change - NewsClick NewsClick The thumping victory by the Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, securing an absolute majority of 253 seats in the 450 member parliament, can be viewed as a tectonic shift in the geopolitical landscape of Eurasia. Read More Russian Wheat Optimism Is Fading as Heat Shrinks Bumper Crop - Bloomberg Bloomberg Russian Wheat Optimism Is Fading as Heat Shrinks Bumper Crop BloombergWheat farmers in Russia, the world's top shipper, have started the new season a lot less optimistic than they were just a few months ago. Read More Ukraine president's party gets solid parliament majority - Minneapolis Star Tribune Minneapolis Star Tribune KIEV, Ukraine — The anti-corruption party of Ukraine's new president has won a commanding majority of seats in the national parliament, near-complete election results showed Tuesday, giving him leverage to try to enact his promised reforms. Read More

Top News DealBook Briefing: Deutsche Bank’s Latest Scandal Is Jeffrey Epstein - The New York Times YouTube Is a Big Business. Just How Big Is Anyone’s Guess. - The New York Times Technology giants' power to be probed in US - BBC News Google Is Reportedly Paying Random People $5 to Train the Pixel 4's Face ID - Tom's Guide Trump agrees to respond promptly to Huawei sales requests - Al Jazeera America DealBook Briefing: Deutsche Bank’s Latest Scandal Is Jeffrey Epstein - The New York Times The New York Times DealBook Business and PolicyGood Wednesday morning. Robert Mueller testifies before Congress today, and Facebook’s F.T.C. settlement may finally be announced — more on those stories below. Read More YouTube Is a Big Business. Just How Big Is Anyone’s Guess. - The New York Times The New York Times YouTube probably generates $16 billion to $25 billion in annual revenue, making the video service big enough to crack the top half of the Fortune 500. But that’s just a guess. Even though financial analysts on Wall Street think YouTube makes about as much money as the Gap, General Mills or Netflix, the video service’s financial results are a secret. Read More Technology giants' power to be probed in US - BBC News BBC News Image copyright Getty Images The US Justice Department has announced an investigation into leading online platforms, examining whether they are unfairly restricting competition. The DoJ did not name any firms, but companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple are likely to be scrutinised in the wide-ranging probe. Read More Google Is Reportedly Paying Random People $5 to Train the Pixel 4's Face ID - Tom's Guide Tom's Guide Is Google planning to answer Apple's Face ID with some form of facial recognition inside the Pixel 4? Rumors appear split on that front, though a very interesting story from ZDNet could clue us into Google's master plan for its next-generation handset. Read More Trump agrees to respond promptly to Huawei sales requests - Al Jazeera America Al Jazeera America United States President Donald Trump has agreed at a meeting with the heads of top technology companies to make "timely" decisions on requests by US firms to sell to blacklisted Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd , according to the White House. Read More

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