Section: United Arab Emirates
Dubai-Ukraine trade exchanges hit AED2.16 bn in 2018
Director General of Dubai Customs, Ahmed Mahboob Musabih and Oleksandr Khomiak, Consul General of Ukraine to Dubai More… …read more Source:: Emirates...
Trump calls on Ukraine whistleblower to ‘come forward’
US President Donald Trump on Sunday called on the whistleblower whose concerns prompted an impeachment inquiry to “come forward,” appealing directly to the intelligence community employee …read more Source:: Al...
Russia accuses NATO of stirring up tensions over Ukraine: Report
Russia’s foreign ministry accused NATO on Friday of fueling tensions over Ukraine and said the alliance’s military support for the country was creating divisions inside it, the TASS news …read more Source:: Al...
Impeachment inquiry focuses on White House lawyers
The House impeachment inquiry is zeroing in on two White House lawyers privy to a discussion about moving a memo recounting President Donald Trump’s phone call with the leader of Ukraine into a …read more Source:: Al...
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...
US lawmakers hear from ‘corroborating’ witness in Trump impeachment probe
A senior US diplomat told lawmakers on Saturday he did not know whether President Donald Trump had withheld aid for Ukraine to force an investigation of a political rival, two sources said, even as …read more Source:: Al...
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,...
