2019年10月15日星期二

Tuesday Morning Briefing: Trump lawyer Giuliani was paid $500,000 to consult on indicted associate's firm

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President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani was paid $500,000 for work he did for a company co-founded by the Ukrainian-American businessman arrested last week on campaign finance charges, Giuliani told Reuters. The businessman, Lev Parnas, is a close associate of Giuliani and was involved in his effort to investigate Trump’s political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.

Americans divided - Neighbors turn enemies over Trump in swing-vote Michigan suburbs. At first glance, Cavell Street in Livonia, Michigan, looks tranquil enough - until the subject of the Democratic-led impeachment probe of President Donald Trump comes up.

The U.S. imposed sanctions on Turkey on Monday and demanded the NATO ally stop a military incursion in northeast Syria that is rapidly reshaping the battlefield of the world’s deadliest ongoing war. President Trump, who gave what critics say was a de facto green light for Turkey’s assault by ordering U.S. forces away from the conflict area, requested the ceasefire in a call with President Tayyip Erdogan.

A white Fort Worth, Texas, police officer was jailed on murder charges on Monday in the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old black woman who was babysitting inside her home, the police department said. Atatiana Jefferson was killed on Saturday at about 2:30 a.m. when officer Aaron Dean fired a single shot through a window into her home as she cared for her 8-year-old nephew.

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Embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam ruled out making any concessions to pro-democracy protesters in the face of escalating violence, which police said was now “life threatening” citing the detonation of a small bomb. Protesters have five main demands, which include universal suffrage and an independent inquiry into what they say has been excessive force by police.

The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator said that reaching a deal on Britain’s departure from the bloc before the scheduled date of Oct. 31 had become “more and more difficult”, and Finland’s EU minister said leaders would discuss another delay. The main sticking point is customs and security arrangements for the border between EU member Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland.

The death toll in the worst typhoon to hit Japan for decades climbed to 66 on Tuesday as rescuers slogged through mud and debris in an increasingly grim search for the missing, and as thousands of homes remained without power or water. Survivors described how water rose rapidly to chest height in about an hour and mainly at night, making it hard to escape to higher ground.

The Catalan separatist leader hit by the heaviest jail sentence by Spain’s Supreme Court for his role in the region’s failed secession bid told Reuters a new referendum on independence was unavoidable. Oriol Junqueras said that the prison sentences imposed on him and eight others on charges of sedition only made them and their movement stronger and more determined.

Business

U.S. pension funds took positions in blacklisted Chinese surveillance company

Some of the biggest public pensions funds in the United States have invested in one of the world’s largest purveyors of video surveillance systems that the U.S. government claims are used in wide-scale repression of the Muslim population of western China.

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How Amazon.com moved into the business of U.S. elections

Amazon.com cloud computing arm is making an aggressive push into one of the most sensitive technology sectors: U.S. elections. More than 40 states now use one or more of Amazon’s election offerings, according to a presentation given by an Amazon executive this year and seen by Reuters.

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Exclusive: No choice but to invest in oil, Shell CEO says

Royal Dutch Shell still sees abundant opportunity to make money from oil and gas in coming decades even as investors and governments increase pressure on energy companies over climate change, its chief executive said. Ben van Beurden expressed concern that some shareholders could abandon the company due partly to what he called the “demonisation” of oil and gas.

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London retains global finance throne amid Brexit chaos

From the pinnacle of the City of London’s largest skyscraper, Stuart Lipton is wagering a $1.2 billion bet that the British capital remains a master of the international financial universe no matter what happens with Brexit.

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