Category Archives: World News

• Alan Dershowitz, Kenneth Starr expected to be on Trump impeachment legal team

  admin January 17, 2020

  Former independent counsel Ken Starr, who paved the way for the impeachment of Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1998, and prominent lawyer Alan Dershowitz will join President Trump’s impeachment trial defence team, Trump’s legal team and a source said on Friday. Read more »

• Iran’s supreme leader says Trump is a ‘clown’ who will betray Iranians

  admin January 17, 2020

  Iran’s supreme leader said President Donald Trump is a “clown” who only pretends to support the Iranian people but will “push a poisonous dagger” into their backs, as he struck a defiant tone in his first Friday sermon in Tehran in eight years. Read more »

• Ukraine opens probe into possible surveillance of U.S. ambassador

  admin January 16, 2020

  Ukrainian police say they have opened an investigation into the possibility the former U.S. ambassador came under illegal surveillance before she was recalled from her post. Read more »

• White House broke law on Ukraine aid, watchdog says as Senate starts impeachment procedures

  admin January 16, 2020

  The U.S. Senate opens its historic proceedings against President Donald Trump on Thursday with a formal reading of the articles of impeachment by House prosecutors, followed by the arrival at the Capitol of Chief Justice John Roberts, who will swear in all 100 senators as jurors for just the third impeachment trial in U.S. history. Read more »

• Patient in Japan infected with new cornavirus from China

  admin January 16, 2020

  Japan confirms first infection from new coronavirus in a man returning from Wuhan, China. Read more »

• Canadian military resumes some operations in Iraq following Iran scare

  admin January 16, 2020

  The Canadian military is resuming some operations in Iraq following a temporary suspension of activities last week. Read more »

• Giuliani associate Lev Parnas says Trump had knowledge of Ukraine pressure

  admin January 16, 2020

  A close associate of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer says he delivered an ultimatum in May to the incoming president of Ukraine: No senior U.S. officials would attend his inauguration and all American aid to the war-torn country would be withheld if an investigation into Joe Biden wasn’t announced. Read more »

• Ukraine opens probe of possible surveillance of ambassador

  admin January 16, 2020

  Ukrainian police say they have opened an investigation into the possibility the former U.S. ambassador came under illegal surveillance before she was recalled from her post. Read more »

• No one will be untouched by a warming planet, scientists say

  admin January 16, 2020

  On Wednesday, U.S. government agencies released their annual report on global temperatures and climate conditions, finding that 2019 was the second warmest year on record. Experts say rising heat is about more than the numbers, it’s about the costs to lives and livelihoods. Read more »

• For Democrats in 2020, winning isn’t everything — it’s the only thing

  admin January 16, 2020

  In hyperbolic, hyper-partisan America, some Democrats fear the country as they know it will disappear if Donald Trump is re-elected; some Republicans fear civil war if he isn’t. Read more »