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Trump brief assails impeachment, demands immediate acquittal
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s lawyers submitted a trial brief Monday calling his impeachment by the House “a dangerous perversion” of the US constitution and demanding his immediate acquittal by the Senate.Almost simultaneously, House impeachment managers responded to an earlier Trump filing, saying the president had engaged in...
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...
Canada asks Iran to send airliner's black boxes to Ukraine or France
MONTREAL: Canada on Sunday repeated its request that Iran quickly hand over to France or Ukraine black boxes from the Ukrainian airliner which Tehran’s forces accidentally shot down. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd …read more Source:: New Straits...
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...
Bodies of Ukrainian victims of Iran plane crash returned home
KIEV: The bodies of the 11 Ukrainian citizens who died when a passenger plane was accidentally shot down by Iran this month were brought back to Ukraine on Sunday in a solemn ceremony at Kiev airport.All 176 on board the Ukraine International Airlines flight from Tehran to Kiev were killed when the Boeing 737-800 was shot down on Jan 8, at a time...
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...
