Section: The Washington Times (USA)
Apple scolded by Ukrainian official after heeding Russian request over annexed Crimea
Apple caused an uproar Wednesday over how the American company’s popular iPhone applications refer to Crimea, a contested peninsula annexed from Ukraine by Russia in 2014. Russian government officials announced that Apple has updated its Weather app so that cities in Crimea are displayed as Russian territory to Russian users, …...
Once-jailed Ukraine filmmaker warns Europe against Putin
BRUSSELS (AP) – A year after he won Europe’s top human rights award, Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov finally picked up the prize Tuesday, following his release from a Russian prison where he was held on terror charges. Accepting the Sakharov Prize at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Sentsov warned … …read...
Donald Trump impeachment hinges on ‘national interest,’ legal scholars say
House Democrats boast that they have enough evidence to impeach President Trump for putting the squeeze on Ukraine to investigate a political rival, but whether his actions amount to bribery or warrant his removal from office is largely a matter of opinion. Even legal scholars split over these questions. The … …read more Source:: The...
Yiddish author monument vandalized with swastikas in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Unidentified vandals have painted swastikas on a monument to a prominent Yiddish author in the Ukrainian capital. Moshe Reuven Azman, the chief rabbi of Ukraine, posted pictures Monday of the monument to Sholem Aleichem outside Kyiv’s synagogue with big red swastikas spray-painted on it. Police have …...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s portrait pique and other distortions
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump’s latest reasons for firing Marie Yovanovitch as ambassador to Ukraine: She was an “Obama person” who refused to hang Trump’s portrait in the U.S. Embassy. That’s false on both counts. Trump’s pique about not having his picture displayed in a timely way – actually...
Impeachment witnesses agree foreign aid delay is common
Two weeks of impeachment inquiry hearings produced little common ground in the testimony from the parade of witnesses, but one thing they all agreed upon was that delaying foreign aid — even military assistance — happens frequently. The White House’s decision to place a hold on military assistance to Ukraine … …read more...
Devin Nunes plans to sue CNN, Daily Beast over Vienna stories
Rep. Devin Nunes said on Saturday he plans to sue CNN and the Daily Beast for stories that accused him of meeting with a former Ukraine prosecutor in a hunt for dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden. Mr. Nunes called “demonstrably false” an assertion from CNN’s source, an attorney … …read more Source:: The...
New documents show contacts between Giuliani and Pompeo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Documents released late Friday show Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was in contact with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the months before the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was abruptly recalled. The State Department released the documents to the group American Oversight in response to a …...
Steve Doocy, ‘Fox & Friends’ co-host, challenges Donald Trump over debunked Ukraine claim
President Trump was called into question Friday morning by Fox News personality Steve Doocy when he apparently held forth a bogus claim about U.S. cybersecurity company CrowdStrike and Ukraine. Mr. Trump was speaking live on “Fox & Friends” when Mr. Doocy, one of the show’s co-hosts, interjected to cast doubt …...
Trump denigrates US diplomats, pushes conspiracy theories
WASHINGTON (AP) – Offering his own take on five long days of public hearings, President Donald Trump brushed off the impeachment inquiry as “total nonsense” on Friday and bad-mouthed a number of the U.S. diplomats who testified to Congress about his Ukraine pressure campaign. In one breath, Trump said House … …read more Source::...
