Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
White House accused of cover-up over Trump-Ukraine call
The White House scrambled to “lock down” records of President Donald Trump’s phone call pressing for Ukraine’s interference in next year’s US election, according to an incendiary whistleblower complaint released Thursday, in the latest episode of an intensifying impeachment drama. …read more Source:: The Daily...
White House sought to suppress Ukraine call, whistleblower warns
The White House scrambled to lock down records of President Donald Trump’s phone call pressing for Ukraine’s interference in next year’s U.S. election …read more Source:: The Daily...
Pompeo says US diplomats’ actions with Ukraine ‘entirely appropriate’
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday defended U.S. diplomats’ actions on Ukraine following reports that an envoy arranged contacts at the heart of a growing scandal. …read more Source:: The Daily...
White House sought to bury Trump-Ukraine call
The White House moved to “lock down” all records of Donald Trump’s phone call seeking Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 US election, a whistleblower’s complaint released Thursday alleges, in the latest explosive episode in the rapidly unfolding impeachment drama. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Impeachment inquiry ‘a joke’: Trump
A downbeat Donald Trump Wednesday dismissed as a “joke” the grounds laid out for the impeachment inquiry into him, as Democrats stood firm in accusing the U.S. president of a “mafia-style shakedown” of his Ukrainian counterpart. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Trump pressed Ukraine head of state to probe Biden
President Donald Trump pressed Ukraine’s president to investigate a political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, in coordination with the U.S. attorney general and his personal lawyer, according to a summary of an explosive July phone call released by the Trump administration Wednesday. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Transcript confirms Trump asked Ukraine leader to investigate Biden
WASHINGTON: The White House released a call transcript Wednesday confirming Donald Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart to probe his political rival Joe Biden, a day after Democrats seized on the explosive allegation to launch an impeachment process. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Democrats lining up for Trump impeachment probe
Democrats lined up in ever greater numbers Tuesday urging an impeachment probe of President Donald Trump, pushed to action by his phone call with Ukraine’s new leader and what Trump may or may not have said about corruption, frozen U.S. millions and Democratic rival Joe Biden. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Merkel says Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap a ‘sign of hope’
German Chancellor Angela Merkel Saturday hailed a swap of 70 prisoners between Russia and Ukraine as a “sign of hope” and called for the implementation of a 2015 ceasefire deal that Paris and Berlin helped broker. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Ukraine filmmaker in possible Russia prisoner swap
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, serving a 20-year jail sentence in Russia, has been moved to Moscow ahead of a possible prisoner swap, Russian news agencies reported Thursday. …read more Source:: The Daily...
