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Ukraine PM in Davos – government and prime minister do not plan to resign
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s government and Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk do not plan to resign and have good relations with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Honcharuk said on Thursday. …read more Source:: 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 re-election, Democrats charge at trial
WASHINGTON: Democrats Wednesday accused President Donald Trump at his historic Senate impeachment trial of seeking to “cheat” to ensure re-election in November, as they began laying out their detailed case for removing him from office.Adam Schiff, head of the House of Representatives’ prosecution team, took to the Senate floor to deliver...
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...
Pompeo says will travel to Ukraine 'before too long' amid impeachment trial
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday he would travel to Ukraine sometime soon, but gave no date for his planned visit to the country central to President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial. …read more Source:: The...
Trump trial opens with fiery clashes over witnesses
WASHINGTON: Republicans and Democrats battled over summoning high-level White House witnesses Tuesday in a marathon first day of arguments in President Donald Trump’s trial for abuse of power.The two sides squared off in fiery exchanges that circled around the procedures for the trial and gave the Democrats an opportunity to spell out their...
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...
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...
