Mueller’s investigation on Russia, which involves the significant ‘missing link’ Joseph Mifsud; are all protestors in Chemnitz Nazis; what’s the difference between the hurricane and typhoon which hit Philippines and the states; what are the economic and sport dimensions of hiring Cristiano Ronaldo; how best to fight for the truth in the wake of the latest developments on the case of Salisbury.
Diplomatique.Expert recommends the following reads for more insight.
The Guardian:
Trump and ‘collusion’: what we know so far about Mueller’s Russia investigation
The former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had entered into a cooperation agreement with prosecutors requiring him to testify indefinitely about any matter of interest to investigators, potentially including the inner workings of the campaign, its contacts with Russia, Trump family business dealings in Russia or his own contacts with Russia. One former assistant US attorney called the plea deal an “existential threat to the presidency”.
Crossing Germany’s divide — encounters with far-right protesters
DW reporter Ben Knight covered the recent right-wing demos in Chemnitz and Köthen, and had many exhausting conversations with far-right demonstrators. Should he have called them all Nazis?
2 storms, Florence and Mangkhut, different as water and wind
Nature expresses its fury in sundry ways. Two deadly storms — Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut — roared ashore on the same day, half a world apart, but the way they spread devastation was as different as water and wind.
Ronaldo: Why Juventus gambled €100m on a future payday
“It was the first time that the commercial side and the sporting side of Juventus came together in assessing the costs and benefits [of a signing],” says Mr Agnelli, a scion of the billionaire family that has owned the club for 95 years. “The opportunity of Ronaldo was thoroughly assessed . . . and it made sense, both on and off the pitch.”
