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  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel watched President Volodymyr Zelensky’s comedy series to better understand him, according to Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin.
  • A criminal case against notorious judges is stalling as the prosecutor general appears reluctant to charge them.
  • Chief of police in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ordered special police force to stop the patrol officers who pulled over his personal driver. He was sacked shortly after.
  • A Ukrainian man was stabbed and killed on a popular hiking path near Cape Town, South Africa this weekend – in bright daylight.
  • Oligarch Victor Pinchuk’s company Interpipe earned at least $54 million in exports to Russia in five months of 2019 alone.
  • Kyiv tourism department may have found the key to a perfect promo video: show Kyiv through the eyes of a corgi.
  • Whoever says political news has to be boring, hasn’t seen the new episode of our Newsy Vlog. This could be our funniest one so far.

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