Section: Africa&ME
Trump attacks Bolton as US Senate enters new phase in impeachment trial
President Donald Trump unleashed his sharpest attack yet on John Bolton after his former national security adviser depicted Trump as playing a central role in a politically motivated pressure campaign on Ukraine, as the US Senate prepared on Wednesday to enter a new phase in the president’s impeachment trial. Senators will begin up to two...
Impeachment trial: Donald Trump launches scathing attack on John Bolton
Washington – President Donald Trump unleashed his sharpest attack yet on John Bolton after his former national security adviser depicted Trump as playing a central role in a politically motivated pressure campaign on Ukraine, as the U.S. Senate prepared on Wednesday to enter a new phase in the president’s impeachment trial. Senators...
Egypt’s tourism revenues to jump $29.7bn in the next five years, with CAGR of 13%: ATM
Egypt’s total tourism revenues in 2019 recorded about $16.4 bn, and is expected to jump to $29.7bn over the next five years, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13%, according to Danielle Curtis’s, exhibition director of the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) in Middle East, comment on the latest ATM report. She said that Egypt is...
What is the Growing Impact of the Cyprus Problem?
In recent podcast Fiona Mullen – Director of Cyprus-based consultancy Sapienta Economics, spoke with Ahval editor David Lepeska about the growing impact of the Cyprus problem, Turkey’s questionable claims to the waters around the island, and how the European Union has largely failed to protect South Cyprus from Turkish aggression in the...
What’s expected from Pompeo’s trip to Ukraine, Central Asia?
US Secretary of State’s visit comes as President Trump faces impeachment debacle at home, which involves Ukraine. …read more Source:: AL...
EU slaps sanctions on seven more people in Russian-annexed Crimea
The European Union added seven Russian-backed officials in Crimea to its sanctions blacklist on Tuesday for organizing local elections in the peninsula last year.The decision came after Cyprus came on …read more Source:: Al...
Donald Trump lawyers to wrap up defence as impeachment trial intensifies
Washington – Lawyers for President Donald Trump were set on Tuesday to wrap up their arguments urging acquittal in his U.S. Senate trial after making the case that explosive allegations by former national security adviser John Bolton – even if true – do not represent an impeachable offense. The impeachment trial has been roiled...
Donald Trump’s lawyers start impeachment defence but steer clear of Bolton book
Washington – President Donald Trump’s legal team is raising a broad-based attack on the impeachment case against him even as it mostly brushes past allegations in a new book that could undercut a key defense argument at his Senate trial. Former national security adviser John Bolton writes in a manuscript that Trump wanted to withhold...
Impeachment Trial: 5 times Donald Trump and his lawyers got the facts wrong
Washington — President Donald Trump stated falsely Monday that House Democrats never called his former national security adviser to testify in their impeachment inquiry. Actually they did. Trump’s tweet about John Bolton came as the Senate entered the second week of the impeachment trial, where his defense team stretched the facts on...
Trump defense lawyers attack Bidens at impeachment trial
US President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday defended his request that Ukraine investigates Joe Biden and his son Hunter. …read more Source:: Standard...
