Section: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
Yovanovitch is latest casualty of Trump war on career diplomats
The treatment of US ambassador Marie Yovanovitch — disparaged by President Donald Trump and abruptly recalled from Ukraine — exemplifies what current and former US officials describe as a campaign by Trump against career diplomats.A veteran diplomat who has led the US embassies in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine, Yovanovitch’s stint as...
Thousands protest Ukraine leader’s peace plan
About 10,000 people including Ukraine’s former president Petro Poroshenko gathered in central Kiev on Sunday to protest a plan for broader autonomy for separatist territories ahead of a high-stakes summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The protesters, who descended on Kiev’s Independence Square known locally as Maidan, chanted...
Pompeo drawn deep into the Ukraine scandal
Less than a month ago, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo triumphed over rivals to emerge as the dominant force in Donald Trump’s foreign policy. Pompeo’s ascendancy was confirmed in a very public manner when Trump sacked his chief adversary, John Bolton, as national security adviser on September 10. But Pompeo’s fortunes have...
Qatar, a perfect mix of cultural diversity and national identity
Qatar was elected to the membership of the Intergovernmental Committee of the 2005 Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) in June 2018, affirming the confidence of the international community in the country’s...
Inside Macron’s Russia initiative
French President Emmanuel Macron is one of those leaders who wants to bend the arc of history. Having upended French politics, he has secured positions for his preferred candidates at the head of the European Commission and the European Central Bank, and is now trying to improve Europe’s relationship with Russia.French officials are...
Ukraine must investigate Biden’s son, says former prime minister
Ukraine must investigate the activities of US presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son to establish whether his role in a Ukrainian gas company complied with the country’s laws, Mykola Azarov, Ukraine’s former prime minister, said in an interview.Azarov did not specify to which Ukrainian laws he was referring.Hunter Biden’s...
Echoes of the Nixon tapes? The transcripts that could doom Trump
What did the president say and when did he say it? Donald Trump’s politically catastrophic phone call with the leader of Ukraine, sufficient to prompt an impeachment inquiry, might just be the tip of an iceberg that could doom his presidency. On Monday it emerged that Trump urged Australia’s prime minister during a recent phone call...
Trump openly calls on China, Ukraine to investigate Biden
US President Donald Trump openly called on China as well as Ukraine to investigate his potential 2020 election rival Joe Biden, doubling down as Democrats began interviewing witnesses in an impeachment investigation that has rocked the White House.Facing possible removal from office precisely for seeking foreign help against his political...
Trump says he wants Ukraine, China to investigate Bidens
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wanted Ukraine and China to investigate political rival and former US Vice President Joe Biden and his son, openly advocating an action that triggered a Democratic impeachment inquiry in Congress. Trump’s earlier efforts to have Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy launch an investigation...
Democrats vow to move fast to impeach Trump
Democrats have vowed to move quickly on the impeachment investigation of US President Donald Trump, saying that the evidence of abuse of power from his Ukraine phone call and attempts to cover up wrongdoing were already clear.An intelligence whistleblower’s complaint showing Trump pressuring Ukraine’s president to supply dirt on...
