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US calls air strikes on Iraq and Syria ‘successful,’ warn more may come
WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD: US officials yesterday said that air strikes in Iraq and Syria against an Iran-backed militia group were successful, but warned that “additional actions” may still be taken in the region to defend US interests. The US military carried out
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Christianity Today’s split with Trump reveals division in white evangelical America
WASHINGTON: After evangelical publication Christianity Today published a blistering editorial on what it called Donald Trump’s “grossly immoral character”, some church leaders and the US president himself denounced the criticism as elitist and out-of-touch. The Dec 19 editorial sparked a
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Leading Republican senator says impeachment witnesses not ruled out
WASHINGTON: US senators yesterday sparred over the shape of an impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, with Republican leader Mitch McConnell saying he has not ruled out hearing from witnesses as Democrats have demanded. McConnell, speaking on Fox News, stopped
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Facebook takes down RM37.26mil pro-Trump disinformation campaign
Facebook Inc has taken down a well-financed campaign that used dozens of artificially generated faces to spread pro-Trump and anti-Chinese government messages, the company and outside researchers said yesterday. Researchers from New York-based Graphika and the Digitial Forensics Research Lab,
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Democrats: Trump is not king, aides should testify in Senate impeachment trial
LOS ANGELES: The Democratic US presidential candidates promised during a debate yesterday to make the case to a divided American public that the impeachment of Donald Trump was necessary, and some said they wanted to hear testimony from top White
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Mexican children shiver in tents at US border as temperature freezes
CIUDAD JUAREZ: Mexican officials concerned about the health of Mexican asylum seekers including around 200 young children sleeping in the open near the US border in Ciudad Juarez tried to move people to shelters yesterday, as temperatures dropped below freezing.
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Ukrainian tycoon’s lawyer says he lent money to Giuliani associate
DUBAI: A lawyer for a Ukrainian oligarch yesterday said he had lent US$1 million to Lev Parnas, an associate of US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and Parnas’ wife in order for them to buy a home in
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In historic moment, US House impeaches Donald Trump for abuse of power
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump became the third US president to be impeached yesterday, as the House of Representatives formally charged him with abuse of power in a historic step that will inflame partisan tensions across a deeply divided America. The Democratic-led
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Schumer seeks testimony from Mulvaney, Bolton for Trump impeachment
WASHINGTON: The senior US Senate Democrat called yesterday called for the Republican-led chamber to demand testimony from four current and former White House aides in a trial expected early next year on whether to remove President Donald Trump from office.
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US Supreme Court takes up Trump bid to shield financial records
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court yesterday agreed to hear President Donald Trump’s appeals in three separate cases to prevent his financial records, including tax returns, being handed over to Democratic-led House of Representatives committees and a New York prosecutor. The
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