Section: Africa&ME
Officials claim Trump concealed details of face-to-face encounters with Putin
Washington – President Donald Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials,...
Trump raps FBI probe triggered by Comey firing
President Donald Trump blasted the FBI yesterday, insisting that it acted “for no reason & with no proof” when it opened an investigation into whether he was acting on Russia’s behalf after he fired the agency’s director, James Comey, in May 2017.The New York Times reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched...
Trump blasts FBI counterintel probe into whether he worked for Russia
President Donald Trump blasted the FBI Saturday, insisting it acted “for no reason & with no proof” when it opened an investigation into whether he was acting on Russia’s behalf after he fired the agency’s director, James Comey, in May 2017. The New York Times reported that the FBI launched the previously undisclosed...
Trump Blasts FBI For Probe Into Possible Co-operation With Russia
President Donald Trump blasted the FBI Saturday, insisting it acted “for no reason & with no proof” when it opened an investigation into whether he was acting on Russia’s behalf after he fired the agency’s director, James Comey, in May 2017. The New York Times reported that the FBI launched the previously undisclosed...
Ukraine purchases armed drones from Turkey
Purchase agreement covers 6 Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles, 3 ground control station systems and equipment …read more Source: Anadolu...
Nazi guard dies months after being booted from his US home
New York – A Nazi war criminal who was recently booted from his home in Queens and deported to Germany has died. Jakiw Palij, 95, worked as a guard at the Nazi German Trawniki SS camp in occupied Poland. When he arrived in the United States in 1949 he claimed he worked on his father’s farm in Poland and at a factory in Germany during...
The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World – Book Review
(The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World. Robert Kagan. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2018.) It is always an interesting ride to read a Robert Kagan book as it is a journey into a wonderland where things aren’t really what they seem. His most recent work, The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World is a mish-mash of...
Salah voted African Footballer of the Year
Egypt striker Mohamed Salah was voted as the African Footballer of the Year for the second successive year at the Confederation of African Football’s awards ceremony in Dakar on Tuesday, Reuters reports.Salah beat fellow nominees, Liverpool team-mate Sadio Mane and Arsenal forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.He edged the same two players last...
Jewish comedian who plays Ukrainian president on TV runs for the job
From screen to reality: Vladimir Zelenskiy, who hosts Ukraine’s most popular comedy show, surprised everyone when he announced his candidacy for head of state, but most recent polls put him in second place in the March 2019 vote. …read more Source: Yedioth...
Ukraine church marks first Christmas free of Russian “fetters”
KIEV: Ukraine’s Orthodox Christian Church celebrated its first Christmas on Monday outside Russian control and President Petro Poroshenko said the document enshrining its newly gained independence had broken “the last fetters tying us to Moscow.” Hundreds of Ukrainians queued in the snow after the lavish two-hour liturgy at...
