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Trump’s impeachment trial likely to begin next Tuesday: Senate chief
WASHINGTON: The Senate impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump is likely to begin in seven days with key players sworn in later this week, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.McConnell said he expected the House of Representatives to deliver the articles of impeachment against Trump to the upper chamber on Wednesday.”We believe that...
Arrests made over Ukrainian airliner shooting: Iranian judiciary
TEHRAN: Iran’s judiciary on Tuesday announced that it has arrested “some people” over the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet in Tehran last week.”Extensive investigations have been carried out and some people have been arrested,” judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told a televised news conference. However,...
US-Iran tensions: Tehran agrees de-escalation ‘only solution’ to solve crisis
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani (R) meeting with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Tehran. Photo: AFPIran on Monday signalled it favours a de-escalation after more than a week of heightened tensions with the United States during which both sides fired missiles and Tehran accidentally shot down a passenger...
Canada investigators to gain access to plane wreckage in Iran
176 passengers and crew were killed and the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 was shot down by a missile shortly after taking off from Tehran before dawn last Wednesday. Photo: AFPOTTAWA: Canadian investigators flying to Tehran on Monday will access the wreckage and black boxes from a Ukranian jetliner downed by a missile strike last...
Canada investigators to gain access to plane wreckage in Iran
OTTAWA: Canadian investigators flying to Tehran on Monday will access the wreckage and black boxes from a Ukranian jetliner downed by a missile strike last week, officials said.”We don´t fully know what the scope of our investigation will be,” Transportation Safety Board (TSB) chair Kathy Fox told a press conference.However, she...
Trump warns Iran not to kill protesters, door still open to talks
WASHINGTON (Agencies): Donald Trump warned Iran on Sunday against killing protesters who have risen up over the regime’s downing of a civilian airliner as his defense secretary left the door open to talks with Tehran without preconditions. Trump’s salvo came as Iran’s Islamic regime faced a challenge from angry street protests,...
IRGC head briefs Iranian parliament on Soleimani killing: report
Major General Hossein Salami. Photo: FileTEHRAN: chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday briefed the Iranian parliament over the killing of general Qasem Soleimani by the US, its response to the attack, and the subsequent downing of a Ukrainian airliner, ISNA news agency said.Major General Hossein Salami addressed the members of the...
British ambassador to Iran arrested: UK govt
LONDON (AFP): Iranian authorities briefly detained Britain’s ambassador in Tehran on Saturday, according to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, after he was reportedly arrested during protests against the regime. “The arrest of our ambassador in Tehran without grounds or explanation is a flagrant violation of international law,” Raab said in a...
Trump warns Iran against ‘massacre’ as protests erupt over Ukrainian jet downing
US President Donald Trump. Photo: File WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States was monitoring Iranian demonstrations closely, warning against any new “massacre” as protests broke out after Tehran admitted to shooting down a passenger plane.Iran said earlier it unintentionally downed a Ukrainian...
Trump warns Iran against ‘massacre’ as protests erupt over jetliner downing
US President Donald Trump. Photo: File WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States was monitoring Iranian demonstrations closely, warning against any new “massacre” as protests broke out after Tehran admitted to shooting down a passenger plane.Iran said earlier it unintentionally downed a Ukrainian...
