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President Trump’s impeachment trial set to start today
Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON: The United States Senate is set for a showdown as President Donald Trump’s historic impeachment trial is set to begin on Tuesday, with Democrats calling for his removal from office and Republicans determined to acquit him — and quickly, if possible. Four months after the Ukraine scandal exploded and went on to...
Iran confirms two missiles fired at Ukraine airliner
“Investigators … discovered that two Tor-M1 missiles … were fired at the aircraft,” it said late Monday, adding an investigation was ongoing to assess the bearing their impact had on the accident. The statement confirms a report in The New York Times which included video footage appearing to show two projectiles being...
Pulling a Xi Jinping? Vladimir Putin’s power play for modern Russia is not what you think
Back in 2005, a year after the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, I asked a taxi driver in the port city of Odessa how things were going in that post-Soviet country. His reply: “We have a saying about our politicians. Some are in jail, others have been to jail, and everyone else is going to jail.”Ukrainian gallows humour aside, the taxi driver could...
Trump demands immediate acquittal
President Donald Trump’s lawyers submitted a trial brief on 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 engaged in “corrupt...
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...
Monument to Holocaust victims vandalized in Ukraine ahead of remembrance day
Vandals have damaged a monument to the victims of the Holocaust in Ukraine a week before International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27.Joel Lion, the … …read more Source:: The Japan...
Distortion in Trump’s impeachment defense
WASHINGTON — In his first formal response to impeachment charges, President Donald Trump misrepresented the testimony of a key witness who described an exchange of favors in the Ukraine matter. The claim marked a week of frequent exaggeration and distortion by the president heading into the opening statements of his impeachment trial. Just as his...
Ukraine to press for plane crash black boxes as Iran minister visits
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Ukraine to press for plane crash black boxes as Iran minister visits
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