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Impeachment: Republicans Slam Trump But Back Him For Senate Acquittal
US President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 22, 2020. JIM WATSON / AFP Leading Republicans took to the talk show circuit Sunday to defend their expected acquittal of US President Donald Trump at his Senate trial next week — despite offering sharp criticism of his role in...
Ukrainians Rate President Zelensky High Despite Trump, Downed Jet Issues
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a press conference after a summit on Ukraine at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, on December 9, 2019. CHARLES PLATIAU / POOL / AFP In his first nine months as Ukrainian president, former comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has found himself at the center of major international crises, including the US impeachment...
Tape Reveals How Trump Demanded Sack Of Ukrainian Envoy
US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks to the press on the South Lawn of the White House before departing in Washington, DC on August 9, 2019. AFP Donald Trump demanded the dismissal of Marie Yovanovitch, the ambassador to Ukraine and a key figure in the president’s impeachment trial, according to a video recording released to US...
Trump ‘Should Be Removed’ – Adam Schiff
File Photo: US President Donald Trump Lead House impeachment manager Adam Schiff called dramatically for the Senate to remove President Donald Trump from office Thursday, saying the US leader cannot be trusted to put the country’s interests ahead of his own. “The American people deserve a president they can count on, to put their interest...
Historic Trump Impeachment Trial To Begin Today
US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. AFP President Donald Trump’s historic impeachment trial begins in earnest on Tuesday in the Senate, with Democrats calling for his removal from office and Republicans determined to acquit him — and quickly, if possible. Four months after the Ukraine...
Two Missiles Were Fired At Ukraine Airliner, Says Iran
FILES) In this file photo taken on January 8, 2020 rescue teams are seen at the scene of a Ukrainian airliner that crashed shortly after take-off near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran. Akbar TAVAKOLI / IRNA / AFP Iran’s civil aviation authority confirmed two missiles were fired at a Ukrainian airliner that was brought...
Five Arrested For Suspected Terrorism In Kenya
Kenyan authorities have arrested five people suspected of preparing a terror attack in Nairobi, according to a police report seen by AFP on Sunday. The group comprises three men — a US citizen, a Somali and their Kenyan driver — and two Somali women who were believed to be on a reconnaissance mission for an attack in the north of the capital, the...
Iran Plane Crash: Ukraine Receives Bodies Of Victims
Candles flicker in front of the names of the victims of the Ukrainian plane shot down in Iran before a meeting of the International Coordination and Response Group, at the High Commission of Canada in London, on January 16, 2020.Tolga Akmen / AFP The flag-draped coffins of the 11 Ukrainians who died in a plane mistakenly shot down by Iran during...
Trump Lawyers Present Defense For ‘Dangerous’ Impeachment
President Donald Trump’s legal team presented Saturday its line of defense for his upcoming impeachment trial, a process they dismissed as unconstitutional and “dangerous.” It was the first time the team presented its arguments, modeled on those put forward since December by Trump and his fellow Republicans. White House counsel Pat...
Ukraine PM Tenders Resignation After Leaked Recording
Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Honcharuk (R) and Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov (L) attend a briefing in Kiev on January 8, 2020.All passengers and crew on board the Ukrainian Boeing 737 plane that crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran on January 8, 2020 were killed, Ukrainian President...
