Section: Free Malaysia Today (Malaysia)
Iran can take fight beyond its borders, Khamenei says after US strike, unrest
In his sermon he said ‘resistance must continue until the region is completely freed from the enemy’s tyranny’. (Reuters pic)DUBAI: The Revolutionary Guards can take their fight beyond Iran’s borders, the supreme leader said on Friday, responding to the US killing of a top general and to unrest at home over the accidental...
Ukraine PM offers resignation after leaked recording
In this file Ukraine’s MP Oleksiy Goncharuk, the Ukrainian President’s candidate for Prime minister, speaks during the first session of the new parliament, in Kiev. (AFP pic)KIEV: Ukraine’s prime minister offered his resignation on Friday after audio was leaked of him reportedly criticising President Volodomyr Zelensky’s...
Historic Trump trial kicks off with senators vowing ‘impartial justice’
Chief Justice John Roberts (right) is sworn in as the presiding officer for the trial. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: The historic impeachment trial of Donald Trump opened Thursday in the US Senate, as lawmakers took a solemn oath to be “impartial” in deciding whether to force the 45th US president from office. For just the third time in American history,...
FBI arrests Nazis ahead of Virginia gun rally
Mathews is a combat engineer in the Canadian Army Reserve who entered the US illegally. (AP pic)GREENBELT: Three suspected members of a neo-Nazi group appeared in a Maryland court on Thursday to face federal charges after the FBI arrested them for carrying an assault rifle and planning to incite violence at a gun-rights rally in Virginia. Earlier...
Ukraine asks FBI to help probe suspected Russian hack of Burisma
KIEV: Ukraine has asked the FBI in the United States for help investigating a suspected cyberattack by Russian military hackers on Burisma, an energy company caught up in the impeachment of US President Donald Trump. The Ukrainian interior ministry on Thursday also announced an investigation into the possible illegal surveillance of Marie...
Countries demand Iran compensate relatives of plane-crash victims
Snow-covered flowers and candles are seen outside a family bakery of one of the victims. (AP pic)LONDON: Five countries whose citizens died when Iran shot down an airliner last week said on Thursday that Tehran should pay compensation to families of the victims and warned that the world is watching for its response. Canada, Ukraine, Sweden,...
Trump impeachment articles read out on Senate floor
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts swears in members of the Senate for the impeachment trial. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: The charges against Donald Trump were read out Thursday on the US Senate floor as the historic impeachment trial of the US president got underway. “In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, and in violation...
White House ‘violated the law’ by freezing Ukraine aid, says watchdog
Impeachment inquiry accuses Donald Trump of pressuring Ukraine to investigate his potential election rival (AP pic).WASHINGTON: The White House budget office “violated the law” by freezing military aid to put political pressure on Ukraine’s government, a US congressional watchdog announced Thursday as President Donald Trump’s...
Canada ‘to get to the very bottom’ of Iran crash at meeting
57 of the plane crash victims were Canadian. (AP pic)OTTAWA: Canada vowed Wednesday to get to the bottom of the plane crash that killed dozens of its nationals in Iran, ahead of a meeting in London with other countries that lost citizens. Foreign ministers from Canada, Ukraine, Sweden, Afghanistan and Britain – which all had nationals who died –...
US House to send Trump impeachment articles to Senate
Pelosi signs resolution to transmit 2 articles of impeachment against US president to Senate. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to transmit articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate, opening the way for the historic trial of the 45th president for abuse of power. In a strict party-line...
