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Top Trump officials no-shows at inquiry
Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and another White House official failed to appear yesterday at the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, as the administration continued to blockade investigators.Mulvaney, who is also director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), had been issued a subpoena...
UN top court says it has jurisdiction in Ukraine-Russia case
ICJ rejects Moscow’s bid to block case brought by Ukraine accusing Russia of supporting pro-Russian separatist rebels. …read more Source:: AL...
Morozov signs off with two more gold
The second day of FINA World Cup Doha 2019 witnessed more exciting action, including a dazzling performance by Vladimir Morozov of Russia and a new World Cup record by Mykhailo Romanchuk of Ukraine at the packed Hamad Aquatic Centre Morozov, who is set to lift the men’s overall World Cup trophy, won two more gold medals yesterday, after his...
Turkish FM denies taking money from disgraced US lobbyist Paul Manafort
Turkish FM denies taking money from disgraced US lobbyist Paul Manafort An explosive investigative report released earlier this week alleged that Mevlut Cavusoglu was paid to clean up Ukraine’s image with European lawmakers Ragip Soylu Fri, 11/08/2019 – 14:05 Paul Manafort, then adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign,...
Home Office-backed counter-extremism group waging Twitter campaign against Corbyn
Home Office-backed counter-extremism group waging Twitter campaign against Corbyn Faith Matters, which received support through the government’s flagship counter-extremism programme, has described Labour party under Corbyn as a ‘Stalinist cult’ Simon Hooper Fri, 11/08/2019 – 08:00 Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, was...
US diplomat says Trump’s lawyer Giuliani waged campaign of ‘lies’
A senior American diplomat has accused President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani of leading a campaign of lies and deceit against former U-S ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. …read more Source::...
The words Trump had to hear: ‘Investigations, Biden and Clinton’
George Kent said it was his understanding that Trump wanted Ukraine’s leader to say ‘investigations, Biden and Clinton”. …read more Source:: AL...
Pence adviser testifies on Trump’s Ukraine call
US congressional committees conducting an impeachment probe of President Donald Trump met for the first time yesterday with an adviser to Vice-President Mike Pence, but former national security adviser John Bolton failed to heed a request to appear.Jennifer Williams, a career foreign service officer and special adviser to Pence for Europe and...
Macron: Nato is experiencing ‘brain death’
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that he believed the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) is undergoing “brain death”, lamenting a lack of co-ordination between Europe and the United States and unilateral action in Syria by key member Turkey, in an interview published yesterday.“What we are currently experiencing is the brain death...
NATO is “brain dead”, France’s Macron says
France’s president warned fellow European countries on Thursday that NATO is dying because of American unpredictability under President Donald Trump, a view quickly rejected by Germany, Reuters reports. In an interview with British weekly The Economist, Emmanuel Macron expressed doubt about US-led NATO’s security maxim that an attack...
