Section: Lebanon
Kiev train station almost empty as Ukraine shuts down most public transport
…read more Source:: Al-Manar TV
Ukraine to close schools, universities over coronavirus
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Dutch trial over downing of flight MH17 to start without suspects
Four fugitive suspects go on trial in the Netherlands Monday charged with the murder of 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, shot down with a Russian-made missile over eastern Ukraine in July 2014. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Trump Appoints Mark Meadows as New White House Chief of Staff
US President Donald Trump has announced that Republican lawmaker Mark Meadows will become the new White House chief of staff. Meadows had announced in December that he would not seek re-election to Congress but said his work for the president and his administration was “only beginning”. He had also been extremely supportive of Trump since House...
Ukraine Minister Joins China Evacuees in Quarantine After Clashes
Ukraine’s health minister said she will spend two weeks in quarantine with evacuees from coronavirus-hit China after protesters clashed with police and threw stones at returnees over infection fears. Kiev’s efforts to treat 45 nationals and 37 foreigners, mostly from Latin America, in the central Poltava region sparked unrest Thursday...
Ukraine president to convene security council meeting on Donbass fighting
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will convene a Ukrainian security council meeting on Tuesday after one soldier was killed and four wounded in what Kiev said was heavy shelling by Russian forces in the eastern Donbass region. …read more Source:: The Daily...
EU Ambassador Sondland: Trump Intends to Recall Me ‘Effective Immediately
United States Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland is expected to be the next official removed from the Trump administration, according to a statement from the US official. “I was advised today that the president intends to recall me effective immediately as United States Ambassador to the European Union,” Sondland said in a statement...
Trump Says Congress Should ‘Expunge’ His Impeachment
President Donald Trump called Friday on Congress to “expunge” his impeachment for abuse of power following his acquittal in the Senate. “Should they expunge impeachment in the House? They should because it was a hoax,” he told reporters at the White House. Trump was impeached in December on two charges related to his campaign to get...
Trump Slams Democrats and Romney: “Corrupt People”
President Donald Trump began his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast by taking veiled shots at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was on the stage with him as he spoke, and Sen. Mitt Romney, the morning after the GOP-controlled Senate acquitted him. Romney was the only Republican to vote against his party and join Democrats in voting to convict...
Trump heading to acquittal in U.S. Senate impeachment vote on Wednesday
Four months after Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives launched a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, the Senate is poised Wednesday to acquit him on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. …read more Source:: The Daily...
