Section: Independent Online (South Africa)
LOOK: Ukraine International Airlines plane crashes in Iran, killing all on board
Tehran, Iran – A Ukrainian aeroplane carrying at least 170 people crashed on Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s main airport, killing all on board, state TV reported. The plane had taken off from Imam Khomeini International Airport in the Iranian capital. The crash is suspected to have been caused by mechanical issues, the...
Trump impeachment: Bolton’s willingness to testify piles pressure on Republicans
Washington – John Bolton complicated Senate Republicans’ impeachment strategy on Monday, declaring his willingness to testify and upping the pressure on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his party to summon the former national security adviser as a witness in President Donald Trump’s trial. Bolton last fall rebuffed...
Former Trump advisor Bolton willing to comply with impeachment subpoena
Washington – John Bolton, former national security advisor to US President Donald Trump, said Monday that he would comply with a subpoena to testify in a Senate impeachment trial. “I have concluded that, if the Senate issues a subpoena for my testimony, I am prepared to testify,” Bolton said in a statement on his website. The...
Iran Supreme Leader wars of ‘harsh retaliation’ after Iranian general killed in US strike
Baghdad — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that a “harsh retaliation is waiting” for the U.S. after the airstrike on Baghdad airport that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force. The Iranian state TV carried a statement by Khamenei also calling Soleimani “the international face...
How Trump’s impeachment trial would differ from a criminal one
U.S. President Donald Trump on December 19 became the third U.S. president to be impeached when the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives voted to charge him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The Republican-controlled Senate is due to weigh these charges in a trial in January. In the unlikely event he is found guilty,...
2019: The year that Brexit beckoned, protests proliferated and Greenland was not for sale
Berlin – A look at the year that was 2019. January January 3: China’s “Chang’e 4” is the first space probe to land on the far side of the moon. January 11: Macedonia is now North Macedonia, ending a row with Greece and paving the way for NATO membership and EU accession talks. The Greek parliament ratifies the...
Joe Biden clarifies stance on Trump impeachment trial testimony after backlash
Washington – U.S. Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden on Saturday said there would be “no legal basis” for Republicans to subpoena his testimony in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, clarifying remarks from Friday that drew criticism. “I want to clarify something I said yesterday. In my 40 years in...
Rudy Giuliani says he is ‘more of a Jew’ than Holocaust survivor George Soros
Washington Post Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, claimed in an interview that he is “more of a Jew” than Hungarian-born philanthropist George Soros, who survived the Holocaust. The comment came amid an interview with New York Magazine in which Giuliani reportedly claimed, without evidence, that former...
US Senate leaders at impasse over Trump impeachment trial
Palm Beach, Florida — The fate of a Senate impeachment trial for President Donald Trump is at an impasse as Republican and Democratic leaders remained at odds over what form it would take and what witnesses would be called. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he has not ruled out calling witnesses but also indicated that he was in no...
Battle lines harden over witnesses for Trump impeachment trial
Washington – The White House on Sunday signaled comfort with plans by Senate Republicans to avoid new witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, while a top Democrat seized on a newly released email on the withholding of US aid to Ukraine to press his case for testimony. The Democratic-led House of Representatives...
