News / MN Newsletter // November 25

November 25, 2019

Russia Ukraine Feeling abandoned by Trump, a Ukraine hospital stares down Russia - Los Angeles Times Russia's Top Mobile Operator Sells Ukrainian Business - The Moscow Times Republicans buy into Trump conspiracies to blunt impact of impeachment hearings - CNN DOJ official outlines to "60 Minutes" 2016 Russian interference case - Axios Hill, Holmes impeachment hearing: Experts beat crackpots on Trump, Russia and Ukraine - USA TODAY Feeling abandoned by Trump, a Ukraine hospital stares down Russia - Los Angeles Times Everybody could hear the burst of automatic weapons in the distance. But inside the dimly lit halls of the Avdiivka City Hospital, doctors and nurses paid it little mind. The hospital sits three miles from the front line of the five-year war between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists. read more Russia's Top Mobile Operator Sells Ukrainian Business - The Moscow Times Russia’s biggest mobile phone operator MTS said on Monday it had agreed to sell its Ukrainian business to Azerbaijan’s Bakcell for $734 million. The company also said its board had approved a special dividend of 13.25 rubles ($0.21) per ordinary share, or 26.5 billion rubles ($420 million) in total. read more Republicans buy into Trump conspiracies to blunt impact of impeachment hearings - CNN In fact, the more damning the suggestions of an abuse of power become, the deeper it forces Trump's defenders into his wild brew of conspiracy theories, disinformation and distortion. read more DOJ official outlines to "60 Minutes" 2016 Russian interference case - Axios Russian honour guards march during the military parade at Red Square in Moscow in 2018. Photo: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images read more Hill, Holmes impeachment hearing: Experts beat crackpots on Trump, Russia and Ukraine - USA TODAY The duel in the House Intelligence committee between the experts and the crackpots finally reached its natural conclusion with the testimony of Fiona Hill and David Holmes. It did not end well for the conspiracy theorists. read more

Top News Taylor Swift shakes off feud and breaks record at American Music Awards - Sky News Huawei announces the MatePad Pro, a flagship tablet with punch-hole display - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com Mike Bloomberg’s record-breaking ad campaign will be run on Facebook by one of its former top executives - Vox.com Google Stadia Woes, Disney+ Hacks, WoW Puppers, and Half Earth: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week - Gizmodo Retired Georgia assistant police chief shot, killed by nephew in Mississippi, police say - WSB Atlanta Taylor Swift shakes off feud and breaks record at American Music Awards - Sky News All eyes were on Taylor Swift as she dominated the American Music Awards following her high-profile feud with music mogul Scooter Braun and her former record label. But in the end, the star - who became the most successful artist in the awards' history, with six prizes including artist of the year and of the decade - made just a subtle reference to the fallout about the rights to her first six records. read more Huawei announces the MatePad Pro, a flagship tablet with punch-hole display - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com Punch hole displays have been a theme for the past year and it looks like they aren’t going away anytime soon. Up until now, we only saw them on smartphones but now Huawei decided to bring the design to the tablet world with its latest MatePad Pro. read more Mike Bloomberg’s record-breaking ad campaign will be run on Facebook by one of its former top executives - Vox.com A top former Facebook executive is going to oversee what’s likely to be an unprecedented ad campaign on Facebook for Mike Bloomberg, the new Democratic presidential candidate. Gary Briggs, who until last year was Facebook’s chief marketing officer, has joined Bloomberg’s campaign as its digital director, a senior role in one of the most unusually run presidential campaigns to date. read more Google Stadia Woes, Disney+ Hacks, WoW Puppers, and Half Earth: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week - Gizmodo Clockwise from top left: Elena Scotti (Photos: Shutterstock, Creative Commons); Benjamin Currie (Gizmodo); Blizzard Entertainment; Clara Martínez-Vázquez, Cliff Johnson, CTIO/AURA/NSF. read more Retired Georgia assistant police chief shot, killed by nephew in Mississippi, police say - WSB Atlanta 0 Retired Georgia assistant police chief shot, killed by nephew in Mississippi, police say MERIDIAN, Miss. - Channel 2 Action News has learned that a retired Georgia police chief was shot and killed. read more

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