Section: US & Canada
Arms control on tap for Trump, Pompeo’s meeting with Lavrov
WASHINGTON (AP) – Arms control, Ukraine and Syria are headlining President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s meetings Tuesday with Russia’s foreign minister, who is making his first trip to Washington since May 2017. Sergey Lavrov’s visit, however, was overshadowed by the introduction of Ukraine-related...
Exclusive: Top Ukraine Official Andriy Yermak Casts Doubt on Key Impeachment Testimony
Since the start of the public impeachment hearings in Congress last month, Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to the President of Ukraine, has heard his name come up again and again in witness testimony. He took part in many of the events at the center of the impeachment inquiry, and the 300-page report released last week by the inquiry mentions Yermak...
Red Lines And Relief: Mixed Feelings In Ukraine After Zelenskiy-Putin Talks
Expectations ahead of the December 9 Paris summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy weren’t especially high. Even so, few in Ukraine and elsewhere were overwhelmed with the outcome. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Bribery crux of impeachment proceedings against President Trump noticeably absent from impeachment articles
Democrats announced late Monday they would file two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, one for abuse of power and another for obstructing Congress.Noticeably absent are charges of bribery, the crux of the impeachment proceedings.Indeed, House Democrats launched their impeachment inquiry on the basis of accusations that Trump...
Joe Biden: My staff should’ve told me Hunter’s job in Ukraine was a conflict of interest
Former Vice President Joe Biden shifted accountability to his staff when asked during a recently released NPR interview about his son Hunter’s ethically questionable appointment to the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company.Biden has sometimes been angrily defensive, and other times claimed ignorance, when questioned about whether...
House Reveals Articles of Impeachment Against Trump: Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress
Impeachment articles are here. Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled the charges today, officially accusing President Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for his alleged “quid pro quo” with Ukraine and efforts to cover it up. “President Trump solicited a foreign nation, Ukraine,...
‘Low Hanging Fruit’ And The Politics Of Perception: Five Takeaways From The Paris Summit On The War In Ukraine
Ahead of his first-ever meeting with his Russian counterpart, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy suggested there was little chance of breakthroughs on the thorniest disputes blocking the path to peace in the Donbas. He was right — but leaders at a Paris summit did make some progress. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Dems Settle On 2 Articles Of Impeachment: All Ukraine, No Mueller
House Democrats on Tuesday announced just two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, accusing him of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress over his Ukraine pressure campaign. The articles did not appear to impeach the President for anything in Robert Mueller’s report, which presented evidence that Trump had obstructed...
Trump Faces Two Impeachment Articles on Abuse of Power and Obstruction
Saul Loeb/GettySpeaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats formally announced their articles of impeachment against President Trump on Tuesday morning. Flanked by the committee chairs who led the inquiry, Pelosi said the House would move to impeach Trump on two counts: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.“Today, in service to our duty to the...
Ukraine, Russia hope for progress after peace talks
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Both Ukraine and Russia are hailing the outcome of peace talks in Paris even though they failed to solve the core issues blocking the resolution of the five-year separatist conflict in Ukraine’s east. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met for the first … …read...
