WASHINGTON (AP) — House panel advances contempt of AG Merrick Garland hours after White House refuses to produce audio of Biden interview.
The Prime Minister said it was too early to say whether the Government would strip Asma Assad of her British citizenship.
He didn’t look like a dictator. Awkward and gangly, his mannerisms unassuming, at least until he opened his mouth, Bashar al-Assad exuded none of the machismo of other Arab strongmen like Muammar Gaddafi or Saddam Hussein.
ANALYSIS: US-Israel policy appears to now be fully running through Mar-a-Lago after shocking developments in the Golan Heights, writes John Bowden
Disaffected Democrats, including some from within his own administration, are furious with President Joe Biden for shrinking into a political non-entity since his party was walloped in last month’s election, according to multiple reports. “He’s been so cavalier and selfish about how he approaches the final weeks of the job,” a former White House official told Politico. The outlet—which spoke to nearly two dozen officials, including current and former White House staffers—reported that, since the
Corruption and racism cause irreparable harm to the present generation, particularly the youth, and jeopardise the future of an inclusive, equitable Malaysia, says the non-governmental group Pusat Komas in conjunction with International Anti-Corruption Day and Human Rights Day.
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean police raided the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol, a presidential security official said on Wednesday, in a widening investigation into the embattled leader's failed attempt to impose martial law. Separately, Kim Yong-hyun, former defence minister and a close confidant of Yoon, attempted suicide at a detention centre where he is held after being arrested, a Justice Ministry official told a parliament hearing. A presidential security service official confirmed to Reuters that police raided Yoon's office.
South Korea’s previous defense minister was stopped from attempting suicide while in detention over last week's martial law, officials said, as police were trying to search President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office Wednesday in their intensifying investigation. The main liberal opposition Democratic Party also plans to submit a new motion to impeach Yoon for his Dec. 3 declaration that imposed martial law in South Korea for the first time in more than 40 years. Its first impeachment attempt against Yoon last Saturday failed, with ruling party lawmakers boycotting a floor vote.
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said none of his Cabinet members raised objections in 2018 when Malaysia decided not to proceed with applications to review or interpret the 2008 International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision on Pulau Batu Puteh.
South Korea’s former defence minister, who is accused of playing a lead role in the president’s failed imposition of martial law, has tried to commit suicide in police custody.
South Korean police raided President Yoon Suk Yeol's office on Wednesday as the investigation into his declaration of martial law gathered pace.On Wednesday, a special investigation unit of South Korea's police said it raided the presidential office as well as the National Police Agency, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency and the National Assembly Security Service.
South Korea’s Justice Ministry on Monday imposed an overseas travel ban on President Yoon Suk Yeol as authorities investigate allegations of rebellion and other charges in connection with his short-lived declaration of martial law last week. Yoon’s martial law decree on Dec. 3, which brought special forces troops onto Seoul's streets, plunged South Korea into political turmoil and caused worry among its key diplomatic partners and neighbors.
ANALYSIS: ‘The only way to win the war of attention is by going to the voters and explaining things to them, which President Biden has consistently avoided doing,’ one strategist tells Andrew Feinberg. Others take a different view
Roger Schweda was arraigned on Monday in connection with the deaths of his mother, Shari Schweda, and their neighbor, Thomas Farnsworth
When President Joe Biden visited Angola last week, one of the highlights was his pledge of hundreds of millions of dollars for an ambitious trans-Africa rail project that would bring copper and cobalt from central Africa to the Atlantic port of Lobito. The project is possible because of the commitment of a $553 million direct loan from the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, created in 2019 during the first Trump administration to counter China's expansion of its global reach through infrastructure projects, such as the mega-port in Chancay, Peru, inaugurated just last month. On Monday, the U.S. agency celebrated its five-year milestone by vowing to advance U.S. foreign policy and strategic interests through projects around the world such as the one in Angola.
The London Fire Brigade were called to the scene shortly after 4pm
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has told NHS leaders to ‘put patients ahead of targets’.
The Biden administration has urged the rebel group that led the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to assume automatic leadership of the country but instead run an inclusive process to form a transitional government, according to two U.S. officials and a congressional aide briefed on the first U.S. contacts with the group. The communications with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a group formerly allied with al Qaeda and designated a terrorist organization by the United States, are being conducted in coordination with Washington's Middle East allies, including Turkey. The administration is also in touch with President-elect Donald Trump's team about the matter, one of the officials said.
White House chief of staff Jeff Zients on Monday outlined the priorities for President Biden’s final days in office, highlighting that another student debt cancellation announcement is forthcoming and that Biden is working to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza. In a memo to White House staff with 42 days left in the Biden administration, Zients…
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre briefed reporters Tuesday afternoon as the Biden administration enters the final stretch. The briefing comes days after the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, which complicates the counterterrorism mission for the roughly 900 U.S. troops in the country. Biden called the overthrow of Assad a “fundamental act of…
Democrat Adam Schiff stood on the Senate floor almost five years ago as a House impeachment manager and made a passionate case that Donald Trump should be removed from office for abusing the power of the presidency. “If right doesn’t matter, we’re lost,” he told the senators, his voice cracking at one point. The Republican-led Senate wasn’t convinced, and senators voted to acquit Trump on the Democratic-led impeachment charges over his dealings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
