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Trump told Russians in 2017 he was not concerned about election meddling: WP
Sep28

Trump told Russians in 2017 he was not concerned about election meddling: WP

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump told two Russian officials in a 2017 meeting that he was not concerned about Moscow’s meddling in the U.S. election, which prompted White House officials to limit access to the remarks, the Washington Post reported on Friday. A summary of Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Russia’s foreign...

Pompeo subpoenaed as Democrats press Trump impeachment
Sep28

Pompeo subpoenaed as Democrats press Trump impeachment

Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON: Democrats charged aggressively into an impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump on Friday, ordering Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to turn over Ukraine-related documents and scheduling testimony for witnesses to alleged abuse of power by the US leader. Three House committees gave Pompeo one week to produce...

US envoy on Ukraine, named in Trump scandal, resigns: source
Sep28

US envoy on Ukraine, named in Trump scandal, resigns: source

KYIV: US special representative on Ukraine Kurt Volker resigned Friday after Congress ordered him to answer questions in an impeachment investigation on President Donald Trump, a source said. A person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity confirmed Volker’s resignation, which was first reported by the student newspaper at Arizona...

Trump told Russian officials he wasn’t concerned by interference: report
Sep28

Trump told Russian officials he wasn’t concerned by interference: report

MOSCOW: US President Donald Trump told Russia’s foreign minister and ambassador that he was unconcerned about their country’s interference in the 2016 elections, The Washington Post reported Friday. Trump made the previously unreported comments during the same May 2017 Oval Office meeting in which he famously revealed highly...

Pompeo subpoenaed as Democrats press Trump impeachment
Sep28

Pompeo subpoenaed as Democrats press Trump impeachment

WASHINGTON DC: Democrats charged aggressively into an impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump on Friday, ordering Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to turn over Ukraine-related documents and scheduling testimony for witnesses to alleged abuse of power by the US leader. Three House committees gave Pompeo one week to produce the documents,...

Trump faces biggest crisis of presidency
Sep28

Trump faces biggest crisis of presidency

Donald Trump flew back to Washington on Thursday and into the biggest crisis of his tempestuous presidency, raging at enemies and talking darkly of a conspiracy.Trump’s three day trip to New York was meant to showcase his achievements in a speech to the United Nations and multiple meetings with other world leaders. But everything vanished...

Trump on impeachment probe: ?We?re at war?
Sep28

Trump on impeachment probe: ?We?re at war?

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump called his struggle with Democrats threatening impeachment a “war,” a video of comments that he expected to remain private showed. “We’re at war. These people are sick,” Trump says in the video. He was speaking at a closed-doors gathering with US diplomats in New York on Thursday and apparently filmed by...

Kurt Volker, Trump’s envoy for Ukraine, resigns
Sep28

Kurt Volker, Trump’s envoy for Ukraine, resigns

Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON: Kurt D. Volker, the State Department’s special envoy for Ukraine who got caught in the middle of the pressure campaign by President Trump and his lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to find damaging information about Democrats, abruptly resigned his post on Friday. Mr. Volker, who told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on...

Imran rules out possibility of meeting Modi
Sep28

Imran rules out possibility of meeting Modi

–Premier says India is trying to divert world’s attention from its atrocities in Kashmir Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday ruled out any possibility of him meeting his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi on the sidelines of 74th session United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), owing to the latter’s barbaric and illegal actions in...

Kremlin says it hopes US wouldn’t release Trump-Putin calls
Sep27

Kremlin says it hopes US wouldn’t release Trump-Putin calls

MOSCOW: Russia voiced hope Friday that the U.S. administration wouldn’t publish private conversations between the two nations’ presidents like it did with Ukraine. The rough transcript of Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy released by the White House Wednesday shows that Trump urged Ukraine to “look into”...