The US Senate on Wednesday acquitted President Donald Trump of impeachment charges brought against him by the House of Representatives. Ekohotblog recalls that the Nancy Pelosi-led House of Reps had impeached Trump in December 2019 for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress. But the Republican-controlled Senate voted to acquit the US president of any … Read more
A bitter fight in between U.S. President Donald Trump and also top Democrat Nancy Pelosi outraged at his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, with Trump rejecting her a handshake and also Pelosi tearing apart a duplicate of his statements behind his back. As Trump completed talking and also most legislators stood to praise, … Read more
Britain on Friday ended 47 years of European Union membership, making a historic exit after years of bitter arguments, the resignation by two prime ministers, to chart its own uncertain path in the world. There were celebrations and tears across the country as the EU’s often reluctant member became the first to leave an organisation … Read more
The leaders of the European Union’s three institutions warned Britain on Friday that it cannot expect “the highest quality access to the single market” unless it adopts the bloc’s standards on environment, labor, taxation and state aid. European Council President Charles Michel, EU Parliament President David Sassoli and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen … Read more
The United Kingdom will finally have its Brexit at 11 pm on Friday, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson expected to deliver an emotional divorce address in a broadcast. According to snippets of the broadcast published by Mail Online, Johnson will insist that Brexit marks ‘not an end but a beginning”, as it begins a transition … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday declared a global emergency over the deadly coronavirus spreading from China, after the Asian giant reported its biggest single-day jump in the death toll. The UN health agency based in Geneva had initially downplayed the threat posed by the disease, which has now killed 170 people in China, … Read more
Flash floods and landslides have killed at least nine people and forced thousands into temporary shelters on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, the local disaster agency said Thursday. Torrential rain in North Sumatra this week sparked the disaster, with most victims drowning or hit by logs swept away in the current, the agency added. “We suspect (two … Read more
Donald Trump’s defence attacked Joe Biden and his son Hunter on Monday to try to demonstrate that the American president was within his rights by asking Ukraine to investigate them, a request in the center of his impeachment trial in the Senate. Trump is accused of conditioning crucial military aid on Kiev’s investigation into Democrat … Read more
The Wall Street Journal has reported the changing mood among senators in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, saying Republican senators appear yielding to pressure to allow witnesses to testify in the trial. The respected journal in an exclusive report on Tuesday said Trump’s pointsman in the Senate, Mitch McConnell who had vowed to … Read more
Hours after the World was still trying to adjust to the news of the helicopter crash which killed American basketball star, Kobe Bryant, another plane has crashed. The plane, operated by Afghanistan’s state-owned airline Ariana which had 83 passengers on board, crashed on Monday morning in the country’s central Ghazni province. The number of casualties … Read more
Lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump told his Senate impeachment trial on Saturday that Democrats’ efforts to remove the president from office would set a “very, very dangerous” precedent in an election year. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, the head of the defense team, told senators they would be denying voters their right to give … Read more
Donald Trump, the President of the United States, says he added Nigeria and six others to his travel ban list as a result of happenings around the world. According to the US President who spoke at a news conference at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland yesterday, Trump said the expansion which will be announced … Read more
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would love to be attending his impeachment trial underway in the US Senate, but that his lawyers had advised him against it. “I’d love to go. I’d sort of love (to) sit in the front row and stare in their corrupt faces,” Trump told reporters as he … Read more
Proceedings at the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump began Tuesday, along the lines scripted by the White House. Twice, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate rejected Democratic bids to obtain documents and evidence to aid the trial, an early sign the trial could proceed along lines favourable to Trump. As the third impeachment trial in … Read more
The Democratic U.S. lawmakers leading the impeachment case against Republican President Donald Trump said on Saturday the president must be removed from office to protect national security and preserve the country’s system of government. In a 60-page brief filed ahead of a Saturday deadline, the lawmakers laid out their arguments supporting charges of abuse of … Read more
Britain’s Prince Harry and his partner Meghan have consented to give up their royal titles as well as stop receiving public funds as part of a negotiation with the Queen that lets them invest more personal time in Canada. The announcement from Buckingham Royal residence on Saturday adheres to more than a week of intense … Read more
France has deployed a radar system on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia to beef up its ally’s defences after missile attacks on the kingdom’s oil infrastructure in September, French officials said. Paris has blamed Iran for carrying out the drone and missile attack, which crippled the world’s biggest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia, … Read more
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday said that the Trump-ordered assassination of Iran’s Quds commander, Qassem Soleimani, was a “cowardice act” which hurt its superpower prestige. The Americans could not face Soleimani in the battlefield and hit him “furtively,” said Khamenei. In revenge, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s missiles shower on the … Read more
Google parent company Alphabet has done something that very few U.S. companies have done: a $ 1 trillion valuation on the U.S. stock market (via the Wall Street Journal). Ekohotblog understands that Alphabet oversees all of Google’s related properties, including DeepMind, Verily, Wyze, and more. The new assessment marks a good start for the new … Read more
The trade war tension between the United States and the Chinese Government has been eased with the signing of the ‘Phase One’ Deal agreement. Ekohotblog understands that the two countries signed a so-called ‘Phase One’ deal on Tuesday thus putting on hold a trade war that has embroiled the world markets and slowed global growth … Read more