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Paul Manafort resigns from Trump campaign
Paul Manafort on Friday resigned as Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, after the Republican nominee earlier this week announced a new leadership structure for his campaign. “This morning Paul Manafort offered, and I accepted, his resignation from the campaign. I am very appreciative for his great work in helping to get us where we are today,...
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[Ticker] Merkel defends EU sanctions on Russia
Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview published Friday by German media group RedaktionsNetzwerks Deutschland that the EU should uphold sanctions on Russia because it had not fulfilled the Minsk ceasefire accord in Ukraine. “This [the accord] is and remains the yardstick for the future of the sanctions,” she said. The EU...
Petro Poroshenko: Ukraine worried about Russian invasion
Ukraine can’t “rule out a full-scale Russian invasion” and may consider implementing a military draft, the country’s president said Thursday. “The probability of escalation of the conflict remains very significant,” Petro Poroshenko warned in a televised address, Bloomberg reports. Tensions in the region have worsened over summer....
Manafort’s man in Kiev
In an effort to collect previously undisclosed millions of dollars he’s owed by an oligarch-backed Ukrainian political party, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been relying on a trusted protégé whose links to Russia and its Ukrainian allies have prompted concerns among Manafort associates, according to people who...
Trump’s new campaign manager vows to let Trump be Trump
The woman in charge of running Donald Trump’s campaign wants to let Trump be Trump, but in a more disciplined way. Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster and longtime Trump associate who was elevated to be his campaign manager this week, indicated Thursday in separate television interviews that under her guidance, the campaign will be more...
Melbourne beats Vienna as world’s most livable city (again)
Vienna, Helsinki and Hamburg are the most livable European cities, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest ranking. Just as last year, the Austrian capital finished second behind Melbourne, Australia in the EIU’s global list, which considers stability, health care, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure....
Donald Tusk: Russia is ‘unreliable’ on Crimea
The European Council President Donald Tusk said on Wednesday that the Russian version of events in Crimea and Donbas was “unreliable” and his assessment of the situation aligned with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s. Tusk made the statement on Twitter after speaking with Poroshenko on the phone. The comments are likely a reference to...
[Ticker] EU denigrates Ukraine’s anti-corruption scheme
Ukraine’s decision to launch an online asset-declaration scheme for MPs without proper certification “makes little sense and might actually be counterproductive”, the EU foreign service said on Wednesday. The EU added that “failure to swiftly resolve this issue could undermine Ukraine’s important anti-corruption efforts”....
Is Putin playing Trump like he did Berlusconi?
In January 2009, the U.S. ambassador in Rome cabled Washington to raise an alarm. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the diplomat wrote, had cultivated a troubling relationship with the country’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. “Berlusconi admires Putin’s macho, decisive, and authoritarian governing style, which the Italian PM...
Donald Trump shakes up campaign team
Donald Trump, whose presidential bid has been stumbling badly in recent weeks, is reshuffling his campaign’s senior leadership. The Republican nominee tapped pollster Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager and Breitbart News Chairman Stephen Bannon as campaign chief executive, Conway confirmed to POLITICO early Wednesday morning. The news was...
