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Celebration, Fireworks As Australia Cruises Into New Year
New Year’s Eve fireworks erupt over Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge and Opera House (L) during the fireworks show on January 1, 2020. PETER PARKS / AFP Smoke-choked Sydney ushered in the New Year with a huge fireworks display, kicking off celebrations for billions around the world and ringing in the new decade. Australia’s...
Trump Faces Firestorm After Identifying Alleged Whistleblower
US President Donald Trump gestures during a working lunch at the NATO summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, northeast of London on December 4, 2019.Nicholas Kamm / AFP Donald Trump faced calls from his own party to show more restraint on Twitter amid a storm of outrage Sunday over the president revealing the name of a man widely thought to be the...
Prisoners Swap To Occur On Sunday, Says Ukraine President
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky visits an exposition at the Latvian Museum of Occupation in Riga, Latvia, on October 16, 2019. Gints Ivuskans / AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday said he expected a major prisoner exchange between Kiev and Russia-backed separatists on Sunday, amid efforts to settle the Ukraine conflict,...
Russia Hit By Wave Of Bomb Threats Related To Bitcoin Fraud
Dozens of courts, kindergartens and malls in Russia’s largest cities were evacuated on Monday over anonymous bomb threats that appear to be related to the collapse of a cryptocurrency exchange in 2017, news agencies reported. Since November, Russia has seen a wave of similar incidents where the anonymous perpetrators accuse Russian...
EU Opposes US Sanctions On Russia Gas Pipeline
The EU on Saturday voiced its opposition to US sanctions against companies building a Russian natural gas pipeline to Germany. “As a matter of principle, the EU opposes the imposition of sanctions against EU companies conducting legitimate business,” an EU spokesman said. The sanctions were signed off by US President Donald Trump on Friday,...
Former Ukraine MP Faces Money Laundering Charges
Switzerland has charged two Ukrainians, including a former parliamentary deputy, for allegedly laundering around 2.8 million euros ($3.1 million) via Swiss bank accounts, the government said Friday. “The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has filed an indictment with the Federal Criminal Court against the Ukrainian national and...
The Impeachment Charges Against US President Donald Trump
(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 26, 2019 Senate Majority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) listens while US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before a meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. A majority of the US House of Representatives voted on December 18, 2019, to impeach US President Donald...
Trump’s Impeachment Is ‘Internal US Issue’, Says Ukraine
Ukraine on Thursday brushed off the impeachment of Donald Trump as a US “internal issue”, despite the process being triggered by a telephone conversation between the American leader and his Ukrainian counterpart. Trump was impeached on Wednesday by the House of Representatives for abuse of power over the July conversation with President Volodymyr...
US President Donald Trump Impeached
Donald Trump has become the third United States President to be impeached. (File photo)Brendan Smialowski / AFP President Donald Trump was impeached for abuse of power in a historic vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, setting up a Senate trial on removing him from office after three turbulent years. By a 230 to 197 vote in the...
On Capitol Hill, Protesters Clamour For Trump’s Impeachment
People rally in support of the impeachment of US President Donald Trump in front of the US Capitol, as the House readies for a historic vote on December 18, 2019, in Washington, DC. Olivier Douliery / AFP As lawmakers began a day of speeches and votes likely ending with the third presidential impeachment in US history, outside the Capitol,...
