Section: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
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...
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...
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...
Impeachment bid clears its first test in Congress
A deeply-divided US House of Representatives took a major step yesterday in the effort to impeach President Donald Trump, when lawmakers approved rules for the next stage, including public hearings, in the Democratic-led inquiry into Trump’s attempt to have Ukraine investigate a domestic political rival.In the first formal test of support...
The silence of the Republican lambs
In the 1960s, the dissident poet Alexander Galich wrote about the mute complicity of Soviet apparatchiks in Joseph Stalin’s crimes, notably the Great Purges in which millions were detained or died in the Gulag. “Those who were silent became the bosses, because silence is gold,” Galich wrote. “Keep silent, you will be on top.” I never would...
MSC core group chairman underlines importance of bridge-building efforts
The chairman of the Munich Security Conference Core Group (MSC) underlined the importance of “bridge-building efforts” to help foster peace and security in the region and across the world. Speaking at a press conference yesterday at the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), Wolfgang Ischinger stated that the MSC is offering a platform, which can be...
House impeachment testimony resumes
Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump resumed yesterday with testimony from a senior State Department official, a day after a federal judge buoyed the probe by dismissing Republican claims that it was illegitimate.Philip Reeker, the acting assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, met House of...
Republican lawmakers ‘storm’ Trump inquiry
Furious about being left out of the Donald Trump impeachment process, US congressional Republicans stormed a closed-door witness deposition and refused to leave for several hours in an escalation of the showdown over the investigation of the president.More than two dozen lawmakers barged into a secure US Capitol meeting room known as a SCIF,...
President ‘told’ officials to liaise with Giuliani
President Donald Trump directed senior US officials to talk directly to his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, about US policy in Ukraine, raising concern that the president was outsourcing American foreign policy to a private citizen, the US ambassador to the European Union said yesterday.The envoy, Gordon Sondland, told lawmakers in the House of...
