The US House of Representatives and the President have submitted trial briefs to the US Senate. The House brief, 100-plus pages in length, outlines efforts by US President Donald Trump’s personal attorney and others, including withholding aid and meetings, to convince Ukrainian leaders to announce an investigation into a Democratic candidate before the 2020 election….
One month shy of completing three years in office, President Trump has fulfilled or is making significant progress on most of his 2016 campaign promises, which aides said give him a strong reelection argument to counter his impeachment by a bitterly partisan House last week. As the president and his team ready for the 2020…
Migrants trying to reach the UK from France via boats are using “surge tactics” to increase their chances of getting past patrols, the National Crime Agency said. During 2019 nearly 1,900 people tried to make the dangerous journey across the English Channel in small craft. The majority of them were from Iran. Steve Reynolds, from…
The bloc’s top diplomats are meeting in Brussels for talks on how to implement a peace process in Libya. Italy and Greece said they’re willing to send troops, while Germany has also expressed interest in an EU-mission. The European Union’s foreign ministers gathered in Brussels on Monday for talks on how to implement a peace…
US President mocks Iranian supreme leader, writes in support of the ‘noble people of Iran,’ after Khamenei attacks America and Europe in speech. US President Donald Trump at a ceremony in the White House, January 17, 2020, in Washington. (AP/Steve Helber) US President Donald Trump on Friday mocked and warned Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the…
THE disastrous Theresa May believed that in the EU she was dealing with friends and allies with whom she could conclude a close and lasting relationship to our mutual benefit. After the German government virtually dictated her surrender document, the Withdrawal Agreement (for which even after the Johnson improvements we will pay a heavy price, with…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The German economy is expected to have grown last year at the slowest pace since the eurozone’s debt crisis, hit by a slowdown in exports that was only partly compensated by domestic strength, the country’s central bank said on Monday. Germany, Europe’s export powerhouse, is bearing the brunt of an economic slowdown…
President Trump’s legal team on Saturday issued a full-throttle defense to the articles of impeachment, refuting the substance and process of the charges while accusing House Democrats of engaging in a “dangerous attack” on the right of the American people to freely choose their president. “This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere…
Trump and the military initially said no service members were hurt in retaliatory strike over Suleimani killing. US forces walking past a drone in the Ain al-Asad airbase in the western Iraqi. Photograph: Ayman Henna/AFP via Getty Images The US treated 11 of its troops for symptoms of concussion after an Iranian missile attack on…