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Iran can take fight beyond its borders, Khamenei says after US strike
Dubai – The Revolutionary Guards can take their fight beyond Iran’s borders, the supreme leader said on Friday, responding to the U.S. killing of a top general and to unrest at home over the accidental downing of an airliner. In his first Friday prayers sermon in eight years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also told thousands of Iranians who...
How Putin is laying the groundwork to keep his grip on Russia’s autocracy
In 1999, Russia’s president Boris Yeltsin appointed a competent, little-known security official named Vladimir Putin as acting prime minister, before steering him into the presidency. Here, Yeltsin thought, was a loyalist who would protect him and his family from prosecution but also safeguard Yeltsin’s legacy – a Russia that...
Oleksiy Honcharuk offers to resign after tape suggests he criticised President Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Kiev – Ukraine’s prime minister Oleksiy Honcharuk submitted his resignation on Friday after an audio recording suggested he had criticised the president, but then appeared to suggest in comments to Reuters that he might stay in his job. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will consider the resignation letter later on Friday, the...
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...
Trump impeachment trial opens as senators swear in
Donald Trump’s impeachment trial has started with senators being sworn in as jurors and the charges against the president read out. As senators took their oaths, a congressional watchdog found the White House broke the law by withholding security aid for Ukraine approved by Congress. It is unclear whether the assessment from the nonpartisan...
Trump impeachment trial opens as watchdog faults White House on Ukraine
Washington – The Senate impeachment trial on whether to remove US President Donald Trump from office formally began on Thursday even as a congressional watchdog found that the White House broke the law by withholding security aid for Ukraine approved by Congress. The assessment from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) was...
Senate Trial ‘Should Go Very Quickly’, Says Trump
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. Brendan Smialowski / AFP President Donald Trump predicted Thursday that his impeachment trial in the US Senate will not take long and again dismissed the...
Trump’s Impeachment Trial Adjourned Till Tuesday
Chief Justice of The U.S. Supreme Court John Roberts (R) is escorted by Senate Sargent at Arms, Michael C. Stenger after leaving the Senate Chamber at the U.S. Capitol, on January 16, 2020, in Washington, DC. Yesterday the House formally transmitted the Articles of Impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump to the Senate for the trial. Mark...
Trump impeachment trial: White House faulted on Ukraine aid freeze
Washington – As the Senate formally opened the impeachment trial on whether to remove Donald Trump from office, a nonpartisan congressional watchdog on Thursday dealt the Republican president a blow by concluding that the White House violated the law by withholding security aid approved for Ukraine by U.S. lawmakers. Democrat Adam Schiff,...
Trump Impeachment Trial Begins In US Senate
A file photo of US President, Donald Trump. AFP Photo. Amid a solemn silence, articles of impeachment against Donald Trump were read aloud on the Senate floor on Thursday as the bitterly divided chamber began a historic trial of the US president for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Senate Sergeant of Arms Michael Stenger opened just...
