Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
‘You’re good-looking’: Ukraine’s leader woos Tom Cruise
KYIV: Ukraine’s leader isn’t just trying to charm U.S. President Donald Trump — he’s set his sights now on Tom Cruise, too. Mission impossible? Maybe not — Cruise is studying possible Ukrainian locations for an upcoming film, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office. Zelenskiy tapped his roots as a TV...
India defends right to buy Russian arms on US trip
NEW DELHI: India’s foreign minister on Monday defended his country’s right to buy a missile defense system from Russia despite the threat of sanctions from the United States. On a visit to Washington, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said India was discussing the US concerns but declined to forecast the ultimate decision on the fate of...
‘Treason,’ ‘civil war,’ Trump ramps up rhetoric on Twitter
WASHINGTON DC: Conspiracy theories, calls to arrest Democrats for treason, ominous warnings about civil war: President Donald Trump, facing the threat of impeachment, is ramping up his bellicose rhetoric on Twitter to a new level. Trump is lashing out wildly in all directions as the Democratic-led House of Representatives moves ahead with its...
Trump: I want to meet my accuser
WASHINGTON DC: US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he wants and deserves to meet the anonymous whistleblower at the center of the fast-moving scandal that has triggered an impeachment probe against him. The whistleblower, who could testify soon before Congress, fears for their safety if their identity is revealed, according to a...
CITY NOTES: The conspiracy unmasked
The most insidious conspiracy against Imran Khan will come if the Democrats succeed in the witch-hunt against US President Donald Trump for his fight against corruption. Trump is supposed to have told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he should proceed on the cases against Joe Biden and his son Hunter, if he hoped to get any aid in the...
Ukraine must investigate Joe Biden’s son, says ex-Ukrainian PM
MOSCOW/KIEV: Ukraine must investigate the activities of U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son to establish whether his role in a Ukrainian gas company complied with the country’s laws, Mykola Azarov, Ukraine’s former prime minister, said in an interview. Azarov did not specify to which Ukrainian laws he was referring....
Impeaching Trump
And its possible outcomes US President Donald Trump had only just dodged a bullet, avoiding being formally accused of obstruction of justice in the much anticipated and hugely anticlimactic and disappointing (for his opponents) Mueller Report on the Russian collusion scandal, that a new one has emerged. A whistleblower in the Trump...
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...
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
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...
