Section: The Himalayan Times (Nepal)
With testimony over, work begins on key impeachment report
WASHINGTON: The witnesses have spoken, the politics are largely settled. Now impeachment investigators will make the case for public opinion. On Monday, hundreds of pages from Democratic Chairman Adam Schiff’s intelligence committee were being compiled into an exhaustive report that will begin to outline whether President Donald Trump...
Impeachment inquiry crossroads: Keep going or time to vote?
WASHINGTON: They’ve heard enough. With stunning testimony largely complete, the House, the Senate and the president are swiftly moving on to next steps in the historic impeachment inquiry of Donald J Trump. “Frankly, I want a trial,” Trump declared Friday, and it looks like he’s going to get it. Democratic House Intelligence Committee...
Former Trump adviser undercuts GOP impeachment defences
WASHINGTON: A former White House official said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s top European envoy was sent on a “domestic political errand” seeking investigations of Democrats, stunning testimony that dismantled a main line of the president’s defence in the impeachment inquiry. …read more Source:: The Himalayan...
Belarus holds parliamentary election as strongman leader keeps grip
MINSK: Belarus voted on Sunday in parliamentary elections that will be closely watched by the West to see how much leeway President Alexander Lukashenko will allow opposition candidates while keeping his grip on power. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko gestures as he addresses the media after casting his vote during the parliamentary...
Diplomat says he overheard Trump call about ‘investigations’
WASHINGTON: A State Department official told impeachment investigators Friday that he overheard President Donald Trump talking with a US ambassador about “investigations” in Ukraine, according to people familiar with the testimony. David Holmes, the political counsel at the US Embassy in Ukraine, said Trump was talking so loudly that Ambassador...
Ronaldo bags hat-trick, closes on 100 goals in Portugal rout
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Ousted ambassador to testify in Trump impeachment probe
WASHINGTON: The House will hear from a singular witness Friday in the Trump impeachment hearings: Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine who was targeted by the president’s allies in a “smear” campaign now central to the inquiry. The career diplomat, who served both Republican and Democratic presidents, is expected to relay...
Diplomats accuse Trump as impeachment hits Americans’ TVs
WASHINGTON: On Day One of extraordinary public impeachment hearings, the top American diplomat in Ukraine revealed new evidence that President Donald Trump was overheard asking about political “investigations” that he later demanded from Ukraine in exchange for military aid. The revelation came as House Democrats pressed their case for...
More Vietnamese fear relatives are among 39 dead in truck
HANOI: More Vietnamese families came forward Saturday with information their relatives may be among the 39 people found dead in the back of a container truck in southeastern England. British police initially said they believed the victims were Chinese but acknowledged this was a “developing picture.” Police on Friday arrested three people on...
Ukrainian leader felt Trump pressure before taking office
UKRAINE: More than two months before the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Ukraine’s newly elected leader was already worried about pressure from the US president to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Volodymyr Zelenskiy gathered a small group of advisers on May 7 in Kyiv for a meeting...
