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Trump calls for investigation of ‘criminal’ Biden
President Donald Trump works the crowd after speaking at a campaign rally in Tucson on Monday. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump called Tuesday on the US attorney general to investigate his “criminal” Democratic opponent Joe Biden, as he headed to a rally in the key state of Pennsylvania two weeks before election day. Polls show Trump...
Iran and Ukraine hold new compensation talks over downed plane
Debris is seen from a crashed Ukrainian plane as authorities work at the scene near Tehran in January this year. (AP pic)TEHRAN: Iran hosted officials from Ukraine in a second round of talks on Monday over compensation for a Kiev-bound passenger plane mistakenly shot down in January, state media reported. Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752...
US charges 6 Russian agents in global cyberattacks
WASHINGTON: Six Russian military intelligence officers have been charged in the US with carrying out cyberattacks on Ukraine’s power grid, the 2017 French elections and the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, the Justice Department announced on Monday. The six GRU agents were also accused of staging a malware attack called “NotPetya” that infected...
US analyst detained in Belarus moved to house arrest
Protesters rally in Minsk yesterday despite a police threat to open fire on demonstrators. (AP pic)MINSK: The authorities in Belarus have moved to house arrest a high-profile American political analyst and strategist held for over two-and-a-half months in jail as President Alexander Lukashenko cracks down on opponents, his lawyer said on Monday....
Trump ‘flagrantly’ abused power, says Nadler
Nadler says president’s conduct is wrong, illegal and dangerous. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: Democrats told President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial Thursday that he openly and dangerously abused his powers to gain political advantage. House impeachment managers laid out the evidence for the first of two articles of impeachment against the...
World leaders in Jerusalem 75 years after Holocaust
Modern politics have impacted the event, which coincides with US-Iran tensions and Israel’s March elections. (AP pic)JERUSALEM: Israel hosts dozens of world leaders Thursday to mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the World War II death camp where the Nazis killed more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews. The presidents...
Trump sought ‘to cheat’ to win reelection, Democrats charge at trial
House impeachment manager Adam Schiff appealed to the Senate to put aside partisanship. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: Democrats began laying out a detailed case on Wednesday for the removal of President Donald Trump, accusing him at his historic Senate impeachment trial of seeking to cheat to ensure reelection in November. Adam Schiff, the head of the...
Canada, Iran tussle over downed 737’s black boxes
The US-built Ukraine International Airlines plane was shot down in error by Iranian forces. (AP pic)DUBAI: Iran said it had asked the US and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner, potentially angering countries which want the recorders analysed abroad. Prime Minister Justin...
Historic Trump impeachment trial to begin
The Capitol is seen at sunrise on the 1st full day of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s historic impeachment trial begins in earnest Tuesday in the Senate, with Democrats calling for his removal from office and Republicans determined to acquit him — and quickly, if possible....
Iran confirms 2 Tor-M1 missiles fired at Ukraine airline
A Ukrainian airplane carrying 176 people crashed, killing all onboard. (AP pic)TEHRAN: Iran’s civil aviation authority confirmed two missiles were fired at a Ukrainian airliner that was brought down earlier this month, in a preliminary report posted on its website late Monday. “Investigators … discovered that two Tor-M1 missiles … were...
