Ukraine

UK’s Johnson holds talks with US on Brexit eve

7:44 pm January 30, 2020

London: Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hold talks on post-Brexit trade with the top US diplomat on Thursday, eve of Britain’s historic departure from the European Union. The British premier will aim to paper over recent disagreements as he hosts US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo the day before nearly half a century of EU […]

Trump denies telling Bolton Ukraine aid was tied to probe

8:27 pm January 27, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump Monday denied that he told his former national security advisor John Bolton that military aid to Ukraine was tied to Kiev investigating his political rivals. Trump’s tweets came after The New York Times reported Sunday that Bolton alleges as much in a draft of his upcoming book. “I never told John […]

Trump denies calling US war dead 'losers,' 'suckers'

Trump lawyers argue Democrats just want to overturn election

7:29 pm January 26, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump’s lawyers plunged into his impeachment trial defense Saturday by accusing Democrats of striving to overturn the 2016 election, arguing that investigations of Trump’s dealings with Ukraine have not been a fact-finding mission but a politically motivated effort to drive him from the White House. They’re here to perpetrate the most massive […]

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Democrats argue ‘right matters’ in Trump impeachment trial

9:30 pm January 24, 2020

Washington: Democratic House prosecutors made an expansive case at Donald Trump’s impeachment trial that he abused power like no other president in history, swept up by a “completely bogus” Ukraine theory pushed by attorney Rudy Giuliani. On Friday, the Democrats will press their final day of arguments before skeptical Republican senators, focusing on the second […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

Trump says he’s open to trial witnesses — but backtracks

11:39 pm January 22, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he is open to new witnesses at his impeachment trial, a major demand by Democratic prosecutors, but he immediately backtracked, suggesting it could never happen despite what he said was his willingness. Separately, Trump’s lawyers let a deadline pass without filing a motion to outright dismiss the […]