Section: The Frontier Post (Pakistan)
First Trump impeachment hearings set for next week
WASHINGTON (AA): The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee will hold its first open hearings as part of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine next week, its chairman said Wednesday. William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine, and George Kent, a top State Department official, will...
Defiant Trump says impeachment delivers him an ‘angry majority’
Monitoring Desk TUPELO: A combative US President Donald Trump told supporters in his electoral stronghold of Mississippi on Friday that a push to impeach him is driving an “angry” Republican surge ahead of 2020. “We’ve never had greater support than we have right now,” Trump claimed in front of thousands of cheering supporters in a packed...
Russian soft power on display at Africa summit
Monitoring Desk SOCHI: Aboubakary Guiro, a financial expert from Ivory Coast, is full of hope after attending the first ever Russia-Africa summit this week in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. “We forget about Russians when we talk business,” said Guiro, the co-partner of a financial advisory firm based in Abidjan. “We think about the EU-USA-China...
White House admits Trump tied Ukraine aid to political effort
Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON: A top White House official admitted Thursday that President Donald Trump had tied military aid for Ukraine to Kiev undertaking an investigation that would help Trump politically, adding ammunition to Democrats’ impeachment probe. Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s stunning admission supports...
White House rules out cooperation in Trump impeachment probe
Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON: A defiant White House declared war Tuesday against the impeachment investigation of Donald Trump, blasting the process as partisan, illegitimate and unconstitutional and saying neither the president nor his administration will cooperate. In a fiery letter, the White House threw down the gauntlet to House Speaker Nancy...
Kuril Islands: The unresolved dispute between Japan and Russia
Umit Nazmi Hazir In the beginning of September, the Eastern Economic Forum took place in Vladivostok, which is a Pacific port city in eastern Russia. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also joined this forum. One of the topics of the forum was the Kuril Islands issue, which has been the greatest obstacle to the normalization of the bilateral...
Trump says US is at stake like never before
NEW YORK (AA): U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that his country is at stake like never before over impeachment investigation. “Because our country is at stake like never before. It is all very simple. They are trying to stop me because I am fighting for you, and I will never let that happen,” Trump said in a video message on Twitter....
Pelosi says public opinion shifting in support of impeachment inquiry
AUSTIN, TX (Reuters): U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday that public opinion is now on the side of an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump following the release of new information about his conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Pelosi this week announced her support for an investigation after the...
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...
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...
