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Iran asks US, France for equipment to download black box data
DUBAI: Iran has requested equipment it says it needs from US and French authorities to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian passenger plane but Tehran had not yet received a positive response, the Iranian civil aviation body said. Canada, Ukraine and other nations who had citizens on the flight in which all 176 people...
Trump lawyers demand immediate acquittal in impeachment trial
Trump is only the fourth of 45 US presidents to face the possibility of impeachment. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Monday rejected the Democratic-led House of Representatives’ impeachment charges and called for their immediate dismissal by the Republican-led Senate in a memo offering a legal and political case against his...
Bodies of Ukrainian plane victims repatriated from Iran
Honour guards carry a coffin belonging to 1 of the 11 Ukrainian victims. (AP pic)KIEV: Around a thousand people including President Volodymyr Zelensky bid farewell to Ukrainians who died in a plane mistakenly shot down by Iran during a spike in tensions with Washington. Zelensky laid flowers on the flag-draped coffins of the 11 Ukrainian victims...
Iran not planning to release downed jet’s black boxes yet
Honour guard carrying coffin of one of the 11 Ukrainian victims, outside Kiev (AP pic)DUBAI: Iran is trying to analyse the black boxes of a Ukrainian airliner that its military shot down this month, the state IRNA news agency reported on Sunday, denying a report that a decision had been taken to send the plane’s recorders to Ukraine. All...
Trump, Democrats offer duelling impeachment arguments
President Trump has denied wrongdoing and accused Democrats of trying to undo his 2016 election victory. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: The Democratic US lawmakers leading the impeachment case against Republican President Donald Trump said on Saturday the president must be removed from office to protect national security and preserve the country’s...
Iran offers crashed Boeing black boxes to Ukraine
The crash killed all 176 aboard. (AP pic)TEHRAN: Iran will transfer the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder of a crashed Boeing aircraft to Ukraine for further investigation, according to Iranian media. “The black boxes of Flight 752 will not be decoded in Iran and will be transferred to Ukraine instead as per the country’s...
Trump allies draw up battle plan to limit impeachment trial damage
President Donald Trump has accused Democrats of a partisan-driven effort to undo his 2016 election victory. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump and his Republican allies plan to launch a massive effort to limit damage to his chances of re-election as the Senate trial to determine whether to remove him from office gets underway in...
Trudeau urges Iran to send downed jetliner’s black boxes to France
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says France has laboratories capable of properly examining flight data. (AFP pic)OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday urged Iran to hand over black boxes from last week’s downed airliner to France, saying it has one of the few laboratories capable of properly examining them. “Iran...
Pompeo promises probe on possible surveillance of Ukraine envoy
Mike Pompeo has come under criticism for not robustly defending Marie Yovanovitch. (Reuters pic)WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised Friday to investigate whether the ousted ambassador to Ukraine was being spied on by President Donald Trump’s supporters but said he was unaware if so. House Democrats, who cited...
Ukraine’s Zelensky rejects PM’s resignation over leaked recording
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has thus far managed to avoid any significant domestic political problems. (AFP pic)KIEV: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday he wanted to give his prime minister a “second chance” and refused to accept his resignation after a recording emerged of the premier questioning the head of...