Trump hires Clinton impeachment lawyer Emmet Flood Flood will replace Ty Cobb as the president takes a more confrontational approach with Robert Mueller’s investigation.
2 May, 2018 Comments Off on Trump hires Clinton impeachment lawyer Emmet Flood Flood will replace Ty Cobb as the president takes a more confrontational approach with Robert Mueller’s investigation.
President Donald Trump’s team of personal lawyers restarted talks last month with the special counsel over a potential sit-down interview, though they have signaled they may instead force a subpoena fight. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump has hired Emmet Flood, an attorney who helped President Bill Clinton manage his impeachment defense, to join […]
Continue reading …US military cargo aircraft crashes near Georgia airport, killing 5
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A handout photo made available by the Savannah Professional Firefighters Association on 02 May 2018 shows an apparent military aircraft crash outside of Savannah, in Port Wentworth, Georgia. (EPA Photo) An Air National Guard C-130 cargo plane on a training mission crashed Wednesday along a road near a Georgia airport, killing at least five National […]
Continue reading …200 migrants in south German town prevent deportation of man to Congo
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The refugee accommodation in Ellwangen. Photo: DPA A police operation took place in Baden-Württemberg after about 200 migrants used force to prevent the deportation of a Congolese man on Tuesday. The 23-year-old man was to be deported from where he was staying, a refugee accommodation in the small town of Ellwangen. But the police decided […]
Continue reading …Post-Vote Pashinyan Calls for “Total” Civil Disobedience(Photos)
2 May, 2018 Comments Off on Post-Vote Pashinyan Calls for “Total” Civil Disobedience(Photos)
After the National Assembly voted 56-45 not to elect him prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan made his way to Yerevan’s Republic Square where tens of thousands of his supporters were following the confirmation hearing live, on large outdoor screens. To a thundering applause, Pashinyan called on the people to ramp up their civil disobedience by blocking all roads, […]
Continue reading …Why firing Mueller won’t end the Russia investigation The probe is much bigger than one man. By Darren Samwell Sohn
2 May, 2018 Comments Off on Why firing Mueller won’t end the Russia investigation The probe is much bigger than one man. By Darren Samwell Sohn
When Robert Mueller was appointed last May, he assumed control of a pre-existing Justice Department probe into Russian election interference. | Win McNamee/Getty Images President Donald Trump might be able to get rid of special counsel Robert Mueller — but he can’t kill off the Russia probe. Trump aides and associates have long warned him […]
Continue reading …Almost 500,000 affected as devastating floods inundate central Somalia – UN mission
2 May, 2018 Comments Off on Almost 500,000 affected as devastating floods inundate central Somalia – UN mission
UN Photo/Ilyas AhmedThe town of Belet Weyne in the Hiraan region of Somalia as seen from the air submerged in flood waters from the Shabelle river on 30 April 2018. Belet Weyne is currently experiencing its worst flooding ever and over 150,000 people have been displaced. United Nations agencies in Somalia have stepped up their […]
Continue reading …Gunmen attack Libya’s elections commission
2 May, 2018 Comments Off on Gunmen attack Libya’s elections commission
At least three people were killed and others wounded in a suicide attack on the High National Elections Commission in Ghoat Shaal district of Tripoli on Wednesday. Security sources said the attack was carried out by three gunmen, two of them blew themselves up and the other was killed in an exchange of fire with […]
Continue reading …Chinese submersibles probe deep in South China Sea
2 May, 2018 Comments Off on Chinese submersibles probe deep in South China Sea
Two Chinese submersibles finished a three-day joint operation, the first of its kind in the country’s deep sea exploration, to detect a cold seep in the Pearl River Mouth Basin in the South China Sea. Unmanned submersible Haima, or “seahorse”, and manned submersible Shenhai Yongshi, or “deep sea warrior”, on board scientific survey ships Haiyang 6 and Tansuo 1 respectively, carried […]
Continue reading …Has Kim Jong-un changed? Yes in style but not in terms of substance’ By Kim Jae-kyoung
2 May, 2018 Comments Off on Has Kim Jong-un changed? Yes in style but not in terms of substance’ By Kim Jae-kyoung
Have North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his regime changed? Or is it just part of clever tricks to polish his image and earn sanctions relief? This might be one common question in everyone’s minds after witnessing the historic inter-Korean summit last Friday between President Moon Jae-in and Kim. The North’s recalcitrant leader swept many […]
Continue reading …Blast kills at least 24 in northeast Nigeria: police Residents say two suicide bombers detonated explosives at a mosque and a market in Mubi town
2 May, 2018 Comments Off on Blast kills at least 24 in northeast Nigeria: police Residents say two suicide bombers detonated explosives at a mosque and a market in Mubi town
It’s the second time in six months a mosque in Mubi has been targeted At least 24 people have been killed in a double suicide attack on a mosque and a market in northeast Nigeria, police say. More than a dozen were hurt in the explosions in the town of Mubi on Tuesday. Abdullahi Yerima, […]
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