Bedugul Coffee: Friday Morning Briefing: Anniversary of fatal Charlottesville rally puts city on edge

Highlights

“They feel that not being here is giving in to fear and terror.” said Joan Fenton, she knows she will not make much money at her Charlottesville gift shop this weekend, when the downtown district will be virtually locked down for the anniversary of last year’s deadly white nationalist rally. But like many other owners, she will be open anyway.

Exclusive: Trump’s administration has quietly started cutting scores of Pakistani officers from coveted training and educational programs that have been a hallmark of bilateral military relations for more than a decade, U.S. officials say.

Commentary: The Trump administration has done more than separate parents from their children to stop them migrating to the United States, writes Uzoamaka Emeka Nzelibe, an associate professor at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. “In a less visible, but equally appalling move, [Attorney General Jeff] Sessions has rewritten well-established case law to eliminate the types of asylum claims brought by Central Americans.”

Tesla

Is SpaceX the model for a private Tesla? The company's CEO Elon Musk has held up his space transportation company SpaceX as a model for taking his loss-making electric car company private, saying he wants existing Tesla investors to continue to hold stock.

Exclusive: Tesla’s board has not yet received a detailed financing plan from CEO Elon Musk, and is seeking more information about how he will take the U.S. electric car maker private in a proposed deal worth $72 billion, people familiar with the matter said.

World

“There were confounding moments because there were terms I never heard of while working and living just in South Korea,” said South Korean businessman Kim Yong-tae, after he worked with North Koreans at the Kaesong Industrial Complex before it was closed in 2016, one of the biggest challenges was communicating in what is ostensibly a shared language.

Russia warned the United States it would regard any U.S. move to curb the activities of its banks as a declaration of economic war which it would retaliate against, stepping up a war of words with Washington over spiraling sanctions.

If Brexit talks break down without a deal, half of Britons believe the final decision over whether to leave the European Union should be taken by the public in a referendum, according to a survey of more than 10,000 people published.