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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,...
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...
US Senate begins Trump’s impeachment trial
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.In a hushed chamber, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, clad in a traditional black robe, raised his right hand as he was...
State Department chided for silence over alleged threats to U.S. envoy to Ukraine
Ukraine’s announcement on Thursday of an investigation into alleged surveillance of the U.S. ambassador has come as welcome relief to many in America’s diplomatic corps.But … …read more Source:: The Japan...
Trump impeachment trial opens as watchdog faults White House on Ukraine
The assessment from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) was a setback for Mr. Trump, but it was unclear if it would figure in his trial in the Republican-led Senate …read more Source:: The...
Trump impeachment trial opens; White House faulted on Ukraine aid freeze
The Senate impeachment trial on whether to remove U.S. President Donald Trump from office formally began on Thursday even as a congressional watchdog found that the White House… …read more Source:: Japan...
Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas: Trump directly involved in pressuring Ukraine
A close associate of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is claiming Trump was directly involved in the effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate … …read more Source:: The Japan...
