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Tayyip Erdogan

Turkish lira gains nearly 1% after Erdogan-Trump meeting

President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo) The Turkish lira firmed nearly 1% against the dollar on M…

bubmagJuly 1, 2019

NATO

Turkey’s Erdogan says S-400 systems will be delivered within 10 days: reports

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey at the United Nations in New York, Sept. 25, 2018. (Source: Chang W Lee/The New York Times) Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the first delivery of the Russian S-400 missile defence system would take place…

bubmagJuly 1, 2019

Gundam

Promare Burns Bright With Astonishing Animation

Fans of Gurren Lagann and Kill La Kill will instantly recognize the new anime film Promare as the work of director Hiroyuki Imaishi. This would be the case even if Promare's hero Galo Thymos didn't look suspiciously similar to Gurren Lagann's Kamina, and even…

bubmagJuly 1, 2019

Protectionism

PRESS DIGEST- New York Times business news – July 1 – Yahoo Finance

July 1 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. - A day after agreeing to resume trade talks with China, U.S. President Donald Trump and …

bubmagJuly 1, 2019

Julian Assange

Rape Claims and Speech Restrictions, in the Assange/Snowden World

1. Trevor FitzGibbon is a communication strategist who has epresented, among others, Julian Assange. Jesselyn Radack is a whistleblower lawyer and author who has represented, among others, Edward Snowden. Radack and FitzGibbon had been on apparently good term…

bubmagJuly 1, 2019

Monsanto

Analysts predict Temasek and GIC to have negative returns in last fiscal year

The Chinese media reported today (1 Jul) that Temasek and GIC would likely be releasing their latest financial results for the last fiscal year in the coming 2 weeks. It reported that analysts are predicting that both Temasek and GIC might be hitting negativ…

bubmagJuly 1, 2019

Silk Road

Russia-India-China

It all started with the Vladimir PutinXi Jinping summit in Moscow on June 5. Far from a mere bilateral, this meeting upgraded the Eurasian integration process to another level. The Russian and Chinese presidents discussed everything from the progressive inter…

bubmagJuly 1, 2019

Feudalism

Membership of CPC tops 90 million

Members of the Communist Party of China reaffirm their oaths at the site of the first CPC National Congress in Shanghai on Thursday. The membership of the 98-year-old Communist Party of China has exceeded 90 million, the Or…

bubmagJuly 1, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

North Korea upbeat on Trump-Kim surprise meeting as a chance to push nuclear talks

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed at their meeting on Sunday to push forward dialogue for making a new breakthrough in the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, North Korean state media said on Monday. Trump became th…

bubmagJuly 1, 2019

Brexit

PM contender Jeremy Hunt sets out plans to prepare Britain for no-deal Brexit

PM contender Jeremy Hunt rival Boris Johnson in the race to replace Prime Minister Theresa May. (Source: Reuters/Henry Nicholls) A Jeremy Hunt government would set aside a 6 billion pound ($7.6 billion) war chest to protect fishing and farming, and prepare a…

bubmagJuly 1, 2019

Turkish lira gains nearly 1% after Erdogan-Trump meeting

Turkey’s Erdogan says S-400 systems will be delivered within 10 days: reports

Promare Burns Bright With Astonishing Animation

PRESS DIGEST- New York Times business news – July 1 – Yahoo Finance

Rape Claims and Speech Restrictions, in the Assange/Snowden World

Analysts predict Temasek and GIC to have negative returns in last fiscal year

Russia-India-China

Membership of CPC tops 90 million

North Korea upbeat on Trump-Kim surprise meeting as a chance to push nuclear talks

PM contender Jeremy Hunt sets out plans to prepare Britain for no-deal Brexit

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