Section: Independent Online (South Africa)
How impeachment inquiry on Donald Trump poses risk for 2020 Democrats
Washington – The crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates were nearly unanimous in praising House Democrats’ decision to begin an impeachment inquiry into Republican President Donald Trump over accusations he sought foreign help to smear a political rival. Now comes the hard part. With impeachment set to overshadow the...
Hillary Clinton supports impeachment probe into Trump-Zelenskyy call
Moscow – Former US State Secretary Hillary Clinton expressed support for the House of Representatives’ decision to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during a press briefing on Tuesday that the Democrat-controlled House was moving forward with an official...
What the White House can do to punish Donald Trump
So here’s where things stand: We have a president who not only abuses the power of his office but flaunts it, and a political system incapable of doing anything about it. That President Donald Trump would coerce – and possibly extort – a foreign power to launch an investigation aimed at damaging his leading political opponent...
Joe Biden accuses Donald Trump of abusing power to smear him
Joe Biden hit back Saturday after being swept up in President Donald Trump’s latest national controversy, providing an early look at how he’ll respond to Trump’s attacks. Last week, The Washington Post reported that Trump pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate a company with ties to Biden’s son Hunter....
He makes sunglasses from coffee waste
Ukraine’s innovative Ochis eyewear brand is getting customers to literally smell the coffee – by making sunglasses out of coffee waste. …read more Source:: Independent...
French President Macron delivers breakthrough on Iran at tense G7 summit
France – French President Emmanuel Macron paved the way at a G7 summit for a diplomatic solution to the standoff between Washington and Tehran over a 2015 nuclear deal, but there was little else to show from a meeting at which allies were sharply divided. Macron, host of the summit of seven industrialized nations that ended on Monday in the...
Russian pilot says he’s no hero despite praise for crash-landing
MOSCOW – A Russian pilot who landed a passenger plane in a cornfield after hitting a flock of birds said he was no hero despite the Kremlin lauding him for saving the lives of 233 people. Russian media have said it was a miracle that no one was killed when the Ural Airlines Airbus 321 was forced to land on Thursday in a field on the...
Gibraltar releases Iran supertanker US wanted to seize
MADRID — Gibraltar on Thursday allowed a detained Iranian supertanker to leave the British overseas territory despite a last-minute U.S. attempt to seize the vessel, potentially defusing tensions between London and Tehran as a British-flagged tanker remains held by the Islamic Republic. The release of the Grace 1 comes amid a growing...
PICS: 23 injured as Russian passenger plane makes emergency landing near Moscow
Moscow – Russians hailed a miracle on Thursday after a passenger plane carrying 233 people made an emergency landing in a corn field on the outskirts of Moscow after striking a flock of birds shortly after take-off. The Ministry of Health said 23 people had suffered injuries, but that nobody had been killed when the Ural Airlines Airbus 321...
LOOK: Thousands defy authorities in Moscow’s biggest protest for years
Moscow – Tens of thousands of Russians staged what a monitoring group called the country’s biggest political protest for eight years on Saturday, defying a crackdown to demand free elections to Moscow’s city legislature. Police rounded up scores of people after the demonstration in Moscow and at another rally in St Petersburg,...
