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    Cryptocurrency stunt to climb Mount Everest reportedly turns deadly
    May26

    Cryptocurrency stunt to climb Mount Everest reportedly turns deadly

    Saturday, May 26 , 2018 - 0:13 (EEST) Section: CNBC (USA)

    A Ukrainian social media network sent group to bury hard drive with digital tokens on Everest, leading to a man’s death, FT says. …read more Source:...

    Putin, the European
    May25

    Putin, the European

    Friday, May 25 , 2018 - 23:28 (EEST) Section: The American Interest (USA)

    “Never interrupt an enemy while he is making a mistake.” Vladimir Putin might not hold Napoleon in reverence, but these days he could surely relate to perhaps his most famous dictum. Just a few weeks back, the United States, most of the European Union, and several other states united in a common front to expel more than 100 Russian diplomats (or,...

    Putting the New Cohen Revelations into the Early 2017 Timeline
    May25

    Putting the New Cohen Revelations into the Early 2017 Timeline

    Friday, May 25 , 2018 - 23:28 (EEST) Section: TPM (USA)

    We’ve now had reports from The New York Times that Michael Cohen had three meetings with Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg in the weeks just before and after President Trump’s inauguration. This occurred the US investment affiliate of Vekselberg’s holding company, which is run by his cousin, was in the process of hiring Cohen...

    Federal Judge Deals Manafort Another Setback In DC Criminal Case
    May25

    Federal Judge Deals Manafort Another Setback In DC Criminal Case

    Friday, May 25 , 2018 - 23:28 (EEST) Section: TPM (USA)

    The federal judge presiding over Paul Manafort’s case in Washington, D.C. dealt him another legal setback Friday by declining to throw out charges brought against him that Manafort alleged were “multiplicitous.” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson had previously dismissed two seperate legal challenges brought by Manafort alleging that...

    ‘We Want The Truth’: Parents Of MH17 Victim Seek Justice, ‘Chain Of Command’
    May25

    ‘We Want The Truth’: Parents Of MH17 Victim Seek Justice, ‘Chain Of Command’

    Friday, May 25 , 2018 - 23:13 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    The Australian parents of a man killed when Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down in 2014 say they want the truth to come out but stress that they blame the Russian leadership and not the people for the tragedy. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Russia Rejects Report Blaming Russia for Downing of Civilian Airliner
    May25

    Russia Rejects Report Blaming Russia for Downing of Civilian Airliner

    Friday, May 25 , 2018 - 22:58 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed an international investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airliner MH17 over east Ukraine in 2014 as deeply flawed, after investigators concluded Russia’s military provided the missile used in the attack that killed all 298 people aboard. Asked about the Joint Investigative Team (JIT) report...

    In Ukraine, the Game and the War Go On
    May25

    In Ukraine, the Game and the War Go On

    Friday, May 25 , 2018 - 21:28 (EEST) Section: The Daily Signal (USA)

    KYIV, Ukraine—The war in Ukraine escalated this week to its most violent levels of the year with Russian artillery and rocket attacks targeting both Ukrainian military forces and civilian settlements along the front lines in eastern Ukraine’s embattled Donbas region. “The Kremlin controls the violence in eastern Ukraine and could bring this...

    Michael Cohen had yet another Trump Tower meeting with a Russian oligarch during the transition
    May25

    Michael Cohen had yet another Trump Tower meeting with a Russian oligarch during the transition

    Friday, May 25 , 2018 - 19:58 (EEST) Section: Daily Kos (USA)

    Donald Trump may still be hiding the White House visitor logs, but it would still be more interesting to get a peek at the schedule for Trump Tower. There was the well-known meeting between Trump’s senior campaign staff and Russian operatives during the campaign, the more recently discovered meeting with representatives for Saudi Arabia and...

    Netherlands, Australia hold Russia accountable for downing Malaysian flight
    May25

    Netherlands, Australia hold Russia accountable for downing Malaysian flight

    Friday, May 25 , 2018 - 19:43 (EEST) Section: New York Post (USA)

    THE HAGUE – The Netherlands and Australia said on Friday they held the Russian state responsible in part for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July 2014 that killed all 298 aboard, and will seek compensation. MH17 was shot down over territory held by pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine in 2014 as… …read more...

    Markets Disrupted as Italy’s Populists Negotiate Cabinet
    May25

    Markets Disrupted as Italy’s Populists Negotiate Cabinet

    Friday, May 25 , 2018 - 19:43 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    Italy’s prime minister-designate, Giuseppe Conte, a political novice and obscure law professor accused of padding his resume, put the finishing touches to his cabinet lineup Friday. And initial reaction from financial markets was far from approving. Italian government bond prices slumped and the country’s ailing banks saw their stock...