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US Senate returns amid standoff over impeachment trial
Photo: FileWASHINGTON: US lawmakers return to Washington on Friday with President Donald Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial looming over the first Senate session of 2020, but congressional leaders are locked in stalemate over how to proceed.As Congress braces for a frenetic January, newly uncovered evidence could bolster Democrats’...
US Senate returns amid standoff over impeachment trial
Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON: US lawmakers return to Washington on Friday with President Donald Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial looming over the first Senate session of 2020, but congressional leaders are locked in stalemate over how to proceed. As Congress braces for a frenetic January, newly uncovered evidence could bolster...
Pro-Iran protesters leave US embassy in Baghdad
Thousands of Iraqi supporters of the largely Iranian-trained Hashed had encircled and vandalised the embassy compound Tuesday. Photo: ReutersPro-Iran demonstrators left the besieged US embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday after the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force ordered them to withdraw a day after their dramatic incursion.Thousands of Iraqi...
UK had plans to make Russia ‘associate’ NATO member
Monitoring Desk LONDON: The British government had a plan to make Russia an “associate” member of the NATO alliance before Vladimir Putin took over as president in 1999, British archives made public revealed Tuesday. The secret Ministry of Defense documents from 25 years ago revealed the plan, which was based on the cooperative nature of Boris...
UK had plans to make Russia ‘associate’ NATO member
LONDON (AA): The British government had a plan to make Russia an “associate” member of the NATO alliance before Vladimir Putin took over as president in 1999, British archives made public revealed Tuesday. The secret Ministry of Defense documents from 25 years ago revealed the plan, which was based on the cooperative nature of Boris Yeltsin,...
UNICEF calls 2010s a ?deadly decade? for children
Syrian children shelter in the doorway of a house, amid gunfire and shelling, in a city affected by the conflict. Photo: UN/Alessio RomenziThe United Nations Children’s Fund in a report released on Monday said attacks on children have nearly tripled over the last decade — an average of 45 violations a day. Some 170,000 violations against...
Trump faces firestorm after identifying alleged whistleblower
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump faced calls from his own party to show more restraint on Twitter amid a storm of outrage Sunday over the president revealing the name of a man widely thought to be the whistleblower who triggered his impeachment.Criticism has been growing since Trump retweeted an attack that included the name of the reported CIA staffer...
Why the Russia-Ukraine Gas Dispute Worries Europe
Monitoring Desk Europe was shaken in 2009 when vital midwinter supplies of Russian natural gas, piped through Ukraine, cut out because of a price dispute between the two former Soviet countries. Although Europe has since diversified supplies and increased stockpiles, it’s still heavily dependent on Russian gas. And with Russia and Ukraine...
‘UAE’s NPP may fuel regional arms race’
Monitoring Desk DUBAI: In March, Qatar lodged a complaint with the International Atomic Energy Agency over an UAE nuclear power plant which Doha claimed poses a serious threat to regional stability and the environment, allegations that were rejected by Abu Dhabi. The Barakah nuclear power plant (NPP), which is under construction in the United...
Facing blowback, Biden clarifies stance on impeachment trial testimony
US Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden. Photo: AFPWASHINGTON: US Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden on Saturday said there would be “no legal basis” for Republicans to subpoena his testimony in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, clarifying remarks from Friday that drew criticism.“I want to clarify something I said...
