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Backlash as US govt opens criminal probe into Russia investigation
Trump’s Republican allies have sought to drown his impeachment probe with counter inquiries. (Reuters pic)WASHINGTON: Democrats accused President Donald Trump on Friday of using the US Justice Department as a political tool after it opened a criminal probe into its own handling of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016...
Republicans introduce measure to ‘constitutionally protect’ Trump
Republicans are calling for a ‘vote’ to open a formal impeachment inquiry against US president. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: US Senate Republicans on Thursday introduced a resolution that condemns the ongoing impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, arguing that the process examining the president is illegitimate. The measure is the...
Republicans storm secure hearing to protest Trump impeachment deposition
President Trump described any Republicans who might turn on him as ‘human scum’. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: US congressional Republicans furious about being left out of the Donald Trump impeachment process stormed a closed-door witness deposition today and refused to leave for several hours, escalating a showdown over the investigation of the...
US diplomat gives ‘most damning’ testimony in Trump impeachment probe
Former Ambassador William Taylor leaves a closed-door meeting after testifying. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: The top American diplomat in Ukraine testified yesterday President Donald Trump made the release of US security aid to Ukraine contingent on Kiev publicly declaring it would carry out politically motivated investigations that he demanded, according...
Democrats block censure bid on Schiff in Trump impeachment probe
Schiff (right) is accused of misleading the public by making statements related to Trump’s impeachment investigation. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: Democrats in the US House of Representatives yesterday blocked a Republican effort to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff over statements he has made related to an impeachment...
Putin silences critical voices in rights council reshuffle
Putin has removed 5 people from the council. (AFP pic)MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has removed several opposition figures from his human rights council, a decree published yesterday showed, with critics saying the move robs the advisory body of its legitimacy. The 50-member body, which has spoken out against abuses, has gradually been...
Clinton mocks Trump with parody Kennedy letter
Hillary Clinton posted letter on Twitter. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton yesterday posted a joke letter on Twitter supposedly sent by John F Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, written in the excitable style of US President Donald Trump’s recent letter to Turkey. The parody letter, which has been doing the rounds for some...
Trump says next G7 summit won’t be at his Miami golf resort
President Trump says search for another G7 venue will begin. (Reuters pic)WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Saturday the next G7 summit will not be at one of his own Florida golf clubs, reversing a decision that had sparked corruption accusations. “Based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer...
White House admits pressuring Ukraine to launch inquiry
White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledges aid was withheld in part to pressure Ukraine. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: A top White House official admitted Thursday that President Donald Trump had tied military aid for Ukraine to Kiev undertaking an investigation that would help Trump politically, adding ammunition to Democrats’ impeachment...
Elijah Cummings, key figure in Trump probe, dies at 68
WASHINGTON: US Congressman Elijah Cummings, the Democratic chairman of a leading congressional committee investigating US President Donald Trump, has died at age 68, his office said on Thursday. Cummings was chair of the US House Oversight and Reform Committee, a top investigative committee in the House of Representatives that along with two...
