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Whistleblower alleges Trump sought foreign meddling in 2020 election
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launches formal impeachment inquiry into the Republican president. (AFP pic)WASHINGTON: A whistleblower report released by a congressional panel on Thursday said President Donald Trump used his office to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 election to advance his personal political interests, risking US...
US lawmakers to grill Trump Intel chief on whistleblower report
President Trump’s intelligence official will testify at the House of Representatives. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s top intelligence official will be grilled by US lawmakers on Thursday over the administration’s handling of a whistleblower report central to an impeachment inquiry into the president. The acting...
Russian jailed for 3 years for stealing painting in plain sight
MOSCOW: A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a man who snatched a 19th-century painting off the wall in a busy Moscow gallery earlier this year to three years in a maximum security prison.The court in the Russian capital found Denis Chuprikov guilty of theft of valuable items.In January, Chuprikov took the painting off the wall in...
US House vote 421-0 for Trump to release whistleblower complaint
Democratic House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi announced the impeachment inquiry on Tuesday. (AFP pic)WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives voted 421-0 on Wednesday for a resolution calling on President Donald Trump to release a whistleblower complaint to Congress, despite the administration letting them view the classified document at secure...
Trump calls Democratic impeachment inquiry a ‘joke’
The transcript did not show Trump explicitly tying aid to Ukraine to Zelensky (left) probing Biden. (AP pic)NEW YORK: A downbeat Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed as a “joke” the grounds laid out for the impeachment inquiry into him, as Democrats stood firm in accusing the US president of a “mafia-style shakedown” of his Ukrainian counterpart....
Transcript confirms Trump asked Ukraine leader to investigate Biden
Democrats are investigating whether he pressured a foreign government to look into a political opponent. (AFP pic)WASHINGTON: The White House released a call transcript Wednesday confirming Donald Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart to probe his political rival Joe Biden – a day after Democrats seized on the explosive allegation to launch an...
US to deploy 500 troops to Lithuania in fresh signal to Russia
VILNIUS: The United States will move 500 troops to Lithuania in October for a six-month deployment, returning to the Baltic region where it first sent soldiers after Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in 2014.The US military presence, part of a broader Nato deterrent, is likely to reassure Baltic allies that US...
Ukraine leader says ‘only my son can pressure me’
Zelenskiy says nobody can push the president of an independent state. (Reuters pic)KIEV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, asked whether US President Donald Trump had put improper pressure on him during a July phone call, said nobody can put pressure on him except his six-year-old son. Democrats in the US House of Representatives on...
Trump’s transcript of Ukraine call unlikely verbatim
President Trump says transcript would show the call was ‘totally appropriate.’ (Reuters pic)WASHINGTON: Details from a phone call made by Donald Trump that has led the US House of Representatives to launch a formal impeachment inquiry against the president isn’t likely to come from a recording or be verbatim, former White House and...
Impeachment of a US president and how it works
WASHINGTON: The announcement Tuesday of a formal impeachment inquiry by the Democrats in the House of Representatives into President Donald Trump (pix) for abuse of power is a high-stakes gambit with uncertain consequences.Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House, had shown little appetite for impeachment during the first three years of...
