Section: The News International (Pakistan)
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?
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...
?White House sought to bury Trump-Ukraine call?
WASHINGTON: The White House moved to “lock down” all records of Donald Trump’s phone call seeking Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 US election, a whistleblower’s complaint released Thursday alleges, in the latest explosive episode in the rapidly unfolding impeachment drama.The top-secret complaint, declassified by...
Impeachment bid presents risks for Trump, Democrats
US Democrats’ explosive launch of an official impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump has set off a massive political battle, raising multiple questions about the process and its consequences for the Republican’s tempestuous presidency.Will conservative Republicans turn on their man, or dig in their heels? Do Democrats relish the prospect...
Trump confirms he held back US aid to Ukraine as controversy swells
UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump confirmed on Tuesday he had withheld nearly $400 million in U.S. aid to Ukraine but denied he did so as leverage to get its president to initiate an investigation that would damage Democratic political rival Joe Biden.In remarks to reporters at the United Nations over the intensifying political...
Russia, Ukraine swap prisoners in landmark ?first step? to ease tensions
KIEV: Russia and Ukraine carried out a long-awaited swap of 70 prisoners on Saturday, in a deal hailed as a first step towards ending five years of tensions and conflict.Two planes carrying 35 prisoners from each side landed simultaneously in Moscow and Kiev, where the passengers emerged under sunny skies.”We have taken the first...
Germany seeks Polish forgiveness 80 years after WWII outbreak
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday asked Poland’s forgiveness 80 years after Germany’s attack triggered World War II while his Polish counterpart denounced Russia’s recent “imperialist” aggression against its neighbours.Poland suffered some of the worst horrors of World War II: nearly six million Poles died in...
Sailor?s message in bottle found 50 years later in Alaska!
WASHINGTON: A man gathering firewood in Alaska discovered a bottle with a handwritten message inside wishing the finder “happy sailing” more than 50 years after it was dropped into the sea by a Russian sailor.”Sincere greetings! From the Russian Far East Fleet mother ship VRXF Sulak,” it read. “We wish you good...
Suspected online dope-dealer back in Israel
OCCUPIED AL-QUDS: A man accused of operating a large drug-dealing ring on a popular messaging app appeared in an Israeli court on Sunday after his extradition from Ukraine, where he had previously sought to escape.Amos Dov Silver, an Israeli-American, was taken to court in Rishon Lezion near Tel Aviv after his arrival from Ukraine, police said....
Russians hail ?hero? pilot after emergency landing
MOSCOW: A Russian pilot was hailed as a hero Thursday for safely landing an Airbus carrying more than 230 people in a Moscow corn field after a bird strike.The Ural Airlines A321 flying to Crimea hit a flock of seagulls shortly after take-off from Moscow´s Zhukovsky airport early Thursday, the Rosaviatsia air transport agency said in a...
