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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...
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...
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,...
During impeachment trial, Trump will be chilling in Swiss resort
WASHINGTON: Far from feeling the heat, President Donald Trump will be chilling in Davos, a fancy Swiss ski resort, when the Senate hears opening arguments in his impeachment trial next week.Trump is so confident that his Republican party majority will stay loyal that he sees no risk in jetting to Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum on...
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...
