Section: Philippines
What happened this week in Trump impeachment inquiry
WASHINGTON — It was just last week that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. It was triggered by a whistleblower’s complaint about a July 25 phone call where Trump prodded Ukraine’s new president to dig up dirt on the family of his potential Democratic rival, Joe Biden. A lot […]...
‘You’re good-looking’: Ukraine’s leader woos Tom Cruise
KYIV, Ukraine — 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...
Giuliani subpoenaed as impeachment inquiry accelerates
WASHINGTON — At one end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the president raged about treason. At the other, the methodical march toward impeachment proceeded apace. Democrats on Monday subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer who was at the heart of Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden’s...
Trump blurs lines between personal lawyer, attorney general
WASHINGTON — As Washington plunges into impeachment, Attorney General William Barr finds himself engulfed in the political firestorm, facing questions about his role in President Donald Trump’s outreach to Ukraine and the administration’s attempts to keep a whistleblower complaint from Congress. Trump repeatedly told Ukraine’s...
US official: Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine has resigned
WASHINGTON — Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO caught in the middle of a whistleblower complaint over the President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, resigned Friday from his post as special envoy to the Eastern European nation, according to a U.S. official. The official said Volker told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on […]...
White House accused of cover-up over Trump-Ukraine call
WASHINGTON — The White House scrambled to “lockdown” records of President Donald Trump’s phone call pressing for Ukraine’s interference in next year’s US election, an incendiary whistleblower complaint released Thursday alleged, in the latest episode of an intensifying impeachment drama. The complaint caps a stunning week of...
Washington plunges into Trump impeachment investigation
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pressed Ukraine’s leader to “look into” his Democratic rival Joe Biden as well as his own enduring grievances from the 2016 election, according to a rough transcript of a summer phone call that is now at the center of Democrats’ presidential impeachment probe. Trump repeatedly urged Ukrainian...
Trump gets heat for urging Ukraine probe of Biden’s son
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump urged the new leader of Ukraine this summer to investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, a person familiar with the matter said. Democrats condemned what they saw as a clear effort to damage a political rival, now at the heart of an explosive whistleblower complaint against Trump. […] The post...
Key witness in MH17 downing released from jail in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian court has unexpectedly released a key witness in the case of the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over separatist-held eastern Ukraine. The appeals court in the capital Kyiv ruled Thursday that Volodymyr Tsemakh should be released from custody, pending further investigation. Tsemakh was the commander of the...
Five years on, Malaysia says to continue pursuing MH17 culprits
The Malaysian government says it will continue to pursue those who were responsible for the shooting down of flight MH17, five years after the incident in the eastern part of Ukraine. The post Five years on, Malaysia says to continue pursuing MH17 culprits appeared first on Inquirer News. …read more Source: The Philippine Daily...
