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      Trump’s public impeachment hearings: what happened on day one?
      Nov14

      Trump’s public impeachment hearings: what happened on day one?

      Description George Kent (left), deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs, and top US diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor are sworn-in before testifying yesterday Credits Joshua Roberts/Pool/Getty Images Alt Text George Kent and William Taylor Witnesses called to give evidence in front …read more Source:: The...

      Christopher Nunn’s best photograph: a picnic in the shadow of war
      Nov14

      Christopher Nunn’s best photograph: a picnic in the shadow of war

      ‘I spotted them from a bus, two girls having a picnic in Ukraine. This was before the war turned bad. Back then, no one would have believed how bad things would get’I took this in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 2014, just as the war with Russia started. It was immediately after the first battle for Donetsk airport, the first time war came to the...

      Diplomacy, disrupted
      Nov14

      Diplomacy, disrupted

      ne hundred years ago, in the days when diplomatic summits followed wars, carved up continents and sometimes lasted months (today’s attendees complain if they run past midnight), Harold Nicolson attended the Paris Peace Conference as a junior U.K. diplomat. His conclusion: “Amateurish diplomacy leads to improvisation.” “Nothing could be more...

      Highlights from day one of public testimony in the Trump impeachment inquiry – video
      Nov14

      Highlights from day one of public testimony in the Trump impeachment inquiry – video

      Donald Trump cared more about investigating his political rival Joe Biden than the fate of Ukraine, according to dramatic testimony from a key witness in the first impeachment inquiry hearing before the American public. As Adam Schiff, the Democratic chair, gaveled the House intelligence committee into session, cameras from every major network...

      Impeachment probe: Donald Trump faces claim he was overheard asking about Ukraine investigations
      Nov14

      Impeachment probe: Donald Trump faces claim he was overheard asking about Ukraine investigations

      Donald Trump was overheard asking directly about the Ukraine investigation into his Democrat rival Joe Biden, the first public hearing of the impeachment probe has been told. …read more Source:: London Evening...

      DOD watchdog will not investigate aid to Ukraine but could in future
      Nov14

      DOD watchdog will not investigate aid to Ukraine but could in future

      DOD watchdog will not investigate aid to Ukraine but could in future …read more Source::...

      Tusk: ‘It is simply too late to impeach Donald, at least the European one’
      Nov14

      Tusk: ‘It is simply too late to impeach Donald, at least the European one’

      Donald is now a very lame duck — Donald Tusk, that is — and he feels free to speak his mind. On Wednesday night, the outgoing European Council president used his newfound liberty to give a speech that criticized Germany and the Netherlands for being “overly tough” with Greece during its debt crisis, that rebuked Emmanuel Macron for recent remarks...

      Impeachment hearings begin with a bombshell
      Nov14

      Impeachment hearings begin with a bombshell

      Trump is right to be rattled – the first day of public impeachment hearings into the Ukraine scandal very much didn’t go his way. Compared to other recent US congressional hearings, Wednesday’s opening day of the formal public impeachment inquiry into president Donald Trump was a focused affair. A lot of that was because, for the...

      Donald Trump overheard asking about Ukraine investigations, diplomat says
      Nov14

      Donald Trump overheard asking about Ukraine investigations, diplomat says

      The House Intelligence Committee has opened hearings on whether the 45th president of the United States should be removed from office. …read more Source::...

      Trump says he’s not watching impeachment hearing — then critiques it
      Nov13

      Trump says he’s not watching impeachment hearing — then critiques it

      President Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed the House’s impeachment proceedings as a “hoax” and said he was “too busy to watch” — and then blasted Democrats’ choice of questioners at a hearing he said he hadn’t been briefed on. “I’m sure I’ll get a report,” Trump told reporters at a short Oval Office pool spray...