Section: South China Morning Post (China)
As impeachment looms, US Senate and Trump grapple over their next moves
As the US House of Representatives moves closer to impeaching Donald Trump, larger questions loom in the Senate, where the president may be headed for a rare conflict with his Republican allies over how any trial will be conducted.The House Judiciary Committee is due to meet at 7pm on Wednesday (12am GMT) to consider formal articles of...
Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky meet for the first time in aim to end Ukraine war
Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday met Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time ever at a Paris summit aimed at agreeing measures to help end five years of conflict in the east of Ukraine.No comprehensive peace deal is expected from the meeting – mediated by French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela...
Putin vs Zelensky: who will dominate in their first face-to-face meeting?
Volodymyr Zelensky looked up from his treadmill and addressed the people of Ukraine.“Some say that it’s impossible to have a dialogue with Putin,” he said.“But without dialogue it’s like we’re on a treadmill – we are running forward, but not moving.”Days before his first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir...
As deadline passes, no word on whether Trump will send lawyer to vital Wednesday impeachment hearing
The White House remained silent as a deadline passed on Sunday for it to say whether President Donald Trump would send legal counsel to participate in a congressional impeachment hearing this week.It was the first of two crucial deadlines Trump faces in Congress this week as Democrats prepared to shift the focus of their impeachment inquiry from...
Apple faces backlash after apps show annexed Crimea as part of Russia following pressure from Moscow
Ukraine has lashed out at Apple for showing the annexed Crimea peninsula as part of Russia, saying the US tech giant did not “give a damn” about the pain of the Ukrainian people.Russian lawmakers said on Wednesday that Apple had complied with a demand from Moscow for Crimea to appear as Russian territory on its maps and weather apps.“Let me...
Apple bows to Moscow’s pressure by agreeing to show annexed Crimea as part of Russia on apps
US tech giant Apple has complied with Moscow’s demands to show Crimea, annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as Russian territory on its apps, lawmakers said on Wednesday.The Black Sea peninsula and its largest cities of Sevastopol and Simferopol are now displayed as Russian territory on Apple’s maps and weather apps when used in Russia....
Confidential White House review turns up emails showing extensive effort to justify Trump’s decision to block Ukraine military aid
A confidential White House review of President Donald Trump’s decision to place a hold on military aid to Ukraine has turned up hundreds of documents that reveal extensive efforts to generate an after-the-fact justification for the decision and a debate over whether the delay was legal, according to three people familiar with the...
Papers show Trump’s lawyer Giuliani, Pompeo contacts before Ukraine envoy ousted
An ethics group has published nearly 100 pages of documents obtained from the State Department that it says clearly detail contacts between President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and the US secretary of state at a key point in the Ukraine affair.The group American Oversight, a self-described non-partisan watchdog investigating the Trump...
Donald Trump’s Ukraine quid pro quo is ‘beyond anything Nixon did’, impeachment chair Adam Schiff claims
Donald Trump’s conduct with Ukraine was far worse than the behaviour that led to Richard Nixon’s downfall, the head of the congressional impeachment probe said on Thursday as he summed up the case for the US president’s removal.Lawmakers investigating whether Trump abused his office by bullying Ukraine into assisting his...
Impeachment inquiry: Donald Trump’s ex-Russia adviser Fiona Hill scolds Republicans for spreading Ukraine ‘falsehoods’
US President Donald Trump’s former Russia adviser Fiona Hill urged lawmakers in the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry on Thursday not to promote “politically driven falsehoods” that cast doubt on Russia’s interference in the 2016 US election.In her testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, Hill said some members of the...
