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Whistleblower’s identity must be protected after Trump threats
Trump has labelled the whistleblower as a spy. (Reuters pic)WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s public attacks on the unidentified whistleblower at the centre of a Democratic-led impeachment inquiry are complicating negotiations for the person to testify to Congress, according to three people familiar with the matter. Trump has...
Ukraine leader seeks to allay fears over separatist regions
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called on the nation not “to give in to provocations” after protests broke out against giving war-ravaged separatist-held territories in the east… …read more Source:: Japan...
Pentagon wasn’t listening to Trump call with Ukraine’s Zelenskiy
October 04, 2019 5:18 AMWASHINGTON (REUTERS) – No one from the US Defence Department was listening to a July phone conversation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that is at the heart of a House of Representatives impeachment inquiry, the Pentagon said on Thursday (Oct 3). …read more Source::...
U.S. State Department backs missile sale to Ukraine: statement
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Former Ukraine envoy Kurt Volker questioned by US lawmakers as Donald Trump impeachment inquiry begins in earnest
The impeachment inquiry against US President Donald Trump began in earnest on Thursday with Democrats interviewing a former US diplomat to Ukraine, the first witness brought to speak under oath in their probe.Kurt Volker, the former US special envoy to Ukraine, abruptly resigned last week after being named repeatedly in the whistle-blower...
Not just Ukraine, Donald Trump now calls for China to probe Bidens
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Trump wants Ukraine, China to investigate Bidens
US president wants former US Vice President Joe Biden and his son to be investigated. (AFP pic)WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wanted Ukraine and China to investigate political rival and former US Vice President Joe Biden and his son, openly advocating an action that triggered a Democratic impeachment inquiry in...
Trump again seeks foreign help to investigate Bidens, calling on China
President Donald Trump on Thursday again invited foreign interference in a US presidential election, calling on Ukraine and China to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden – similar to a request that has already triggered an impeachment inquiry in Congress. …read more Source::...
Trump impeachment probe casts little-known diplomat Kurt Volker into spotlight
Kurt Volker was little known outside foreign policy circles as the United States’ special envoy to Ukraine until last week, when the whistle-blower complaint against US President Donald Trump recast the once obscure diplomat as a central figure in the unfolding impeachment inquiry.He arrived at Capitol Hill on Thursday to testify in private...
Facing impeachment over call for Ukraine to probe Bidens, Trump openly urges China to also dig up dirt on potential rival
Ensnarled in an impeachment investigation over his request for Ukraine to investigate a chief political rival, President Donald Trump on Thursday called on another nation … …read more Source:: The Japan...
