News / MN Newsletter // October 30

October 30, 2019

Russia Ukraine Testimony from career diplomats to outline Trump’s dark view of Ukraine - The Washington Post [Doyle McManus] Trump and Ukraine: Putin’s got skin in this game, too - The Korea Herald Millions In Infrastructure Investments Pledged In Ukraine’s Donbas - Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty Brexit, Impeachment, Russia: Your Wednesday Briefing - The New York Times How Ukraine and Pro-Russian Separatists Traded Unconvicted Prisoners - Balkan Insight Testimony from career diplomats to outline Trump’s dark view of Ukraine - The Washington Post The State Department officials, Catherine Croft and Christopher Anderson, will say their optimistic view of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky clashed with a darker outlook of the new government held by Trump and an informal channel of actors linked to the president’s attorney Rudolph W. more › [Doyle McManus] Trump and Ukraine: Putin’s got skin in this game, too - The Korea Herald It’s only a little over a month since an intelligence community whistleblower turned the Trump administration on its side; it may seem like more. At first, the story seemed straightforward: The informant charged that President Trump had pressured Ukraine’s new president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son and blocked US military aid to force the Ukrainian leader to do his bidding. more › Millions In Infrastructure Investments Pledged In Ukraine’s Donbas - Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty At the first Ukrainian government-sponsored investment forum since President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s election, hundreds of millions of dollars in investments and loans were promised on October 29 in Mariupol, a port city less than 30 kilometers west of the front line of a conflict with Russian-backed separatists. more › Brexit, Impeachment, Russia: Your Wednesday Briefing - The New York Times (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re taking a look at the intense campaign season ahead of the British general election, a new White House official who alleges omissions in the account of Trump’s call with Ukraine and a battle cry for a fed-up generation. more › How Ukraine and Pro-Russian Separatists Traded Unconvicted Prisoners - Balkan Insight Back in December 2014, Serhiy Shulakov was busy fixing cars in his company’s auto-service yard in the eastern Ukrainian town of Popasna when he saw a hand reaching over the fence. The hand that was trying to unlock the gate belonged to a member of the Ukrainian Security Service, the SBU. more ›

Top News John Witherspoon, Comedian And ‘Friday’ Star, Dead At 77 - CBS Los Angeles Nationals Overcome Astros in Game 6 to Extend World Series - The New York Times Kidnapped from a birthday party and killed, 'Cupcake' McKinney to be laid to rest in Birmingham, Alabama - CNN Missing words and a screaming match: Inside a wild day of impeachment testimony - CNN Grenfell inquiry: key questions answered - The Guardian John Witherspoon, Comedian And ‘Friday’ Star, Dead At 77 - CBS Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — John Witherspoon, an actor and comedian best known for his role as Willie Jones in the “Friday” film franchise, died Tuesday at his home in Sherman Oaks. He was 77. more › Nationals Overcome Astros in Game 6 to Extend World Series - The New York Times HOUSTON — They started the year together at the same spring training site in West Palm Beach, Fla., went their separate ways for a long regular season and reconvened half a year later in the World Series. more › Kidnapped from a birthday party and killed, 'Cupcake' McKinney to be laid to rest in Birmingham, Alabama - CNN Purple and pink flowers and balloons adorned Kamille's tiny casket at the 3-year-old's "homegoing service" at New Beginning Christian Ministry. Colorful cupcakes and an artistic rendering of little Kamille sat alongside the white casket. more › Missing words and a screaming match: Inside a wild day of impeachment testimony - CNN Specifically, he said during closed-door testimony Tuesday, he would have added "Burisma," the name of the company that employed Hunter Biden and that Trump pushed to have Zelensky investigate, according to CNN's reporting on Vindman's testimony. more › Grenfell inquiry: key questions answered - The Guardian Why was a public inquiry set up? The morning after the fire, Theresa May announced an inquiry because families were “owed an explanation”. She picked the retired high court judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick and they agreed he would investigate the fire’s cause and spread, how the building came to be so combustible, the fitness of building regulations and the response of the fire brigade as well as that of central and local government. more ›

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