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Former VP Joe Biden (L) Lawyer Rudi Giuliani (R)
Former VP Joe Biden (L) Lawyer Rudi Giuliani (R)
Giuliani also says that Obama's US embassy instructed Cyprus not to reveal the dollar amount.
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Giuliani also says that Obama's US embassy instructed Cyprus not to reveal the dollar amount.
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The rhetoric of liberalism, democracy and human rights "goes hand in hand with the policies of inequality, injustice, selfishness and a belief in their own exceptionalism," Lavrov wrote in an essay published in the Russia in Global Affairs magazine. While maintaining diplomatic decorum, the essay is a scathing condemnation of unipolar hypocrisy that the Russian FM argued represents a betrayal of principles laid down by the victorious allies at the end of World War II and the founding of the United Nations.
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Individual rights and freedoms are incompatible with sanctions, economic blockades, and "overt military threats" to states like Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Iran and Syria, the minister said. Bombing and regime change campaigns in places like Libya and Iraq have destroyed their statehood and killed tens of thousands.
"How does the bombing of sovereign nations [and] the deliberate policy of destroying their statehood ... add up to the imperative of protecting human rights?"
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Former VP Joe Biden • Hunter Biden.
A quick reminder of what Joe Biden did during the collective West's 2014 coup in Kiev...
Former VP Joe Biden • Hunter Biden.
A quick reminder of what Joe Biden did during the collective West's 2014 coup in Kiev...
If the latest media-manufactured hysteria over President Donald Trump's interactions with the Ukrainian government looks familiar, it's because it is. The same tired playbook is being run by the same discredited people with the same goal: get rid of Trump, by any means necessary.
Just as the Clinton campaign, Obama administration holdovers, and complicit media allies peddled lies about Russian collusion while engaging in literal Russian collusion during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, so too did Joseph Biden literally threaten to withhold money from Ukraine if it failed to fire the prosecutor investigating his son's company.
To hear the media tell it, Trump committed treason. The walls are closing in. The end is nigh. Why? Well, the details there are a little fuzzy, as they always seem to be. Somebody heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another that Trump had threatened Ukraine that it must investigate Hunter Biden, the troubled son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden...or else.
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US President Donald Trump • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
US President Donald Trump • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Speaking to reporters at the UN General Assembly in New York, Trump said that impeachment would be "a positive for me," adding "we will win the election."
Democrats in Congress have threatened to impeach Trump countless times already - sometimes for non-offenses like "being such good friends with Putin," or making up mean nicknames. However, this latest effort has garnered some more momentum than previous attempts.
Democrats accuse Trump of pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate 2020 candidate Joe Biden's son Hunter and his business dealings in the country, in a July phone call. Trump has promised to release a transcript of the call clearing him of wrongdoing, but Democrats have demanded that the full content of the whistleblower complaint that drew attention to the call in the first place.
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More from RT, 24/9/2019: Trump authorizes release of 'complete' transcript of call with Zelensky but Dems still not happy
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump said that a Republican would be "getting the electric chair" if he did what Biden did. He also denied that his own decision to withhold $400 million in aid to Ukraine had anything to do with Biden.
US House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, known for his elaborate Russiagate conspiracies, said his panel is in contact with a lawyer representing the whistleblower who may give testimony as early as this week.
ABC News White House reporter tweeted that while Trump is releasing the transcript of the call, Democrats still want to see the exact complaint the whistleblower made.
Some on Twitter even suggested that Trump might release an "edited" transcript of the call instead of the real one.
Republicans on the other hand, are expressing concerns that releasing the transcript of the call to appease Democrats and the media would set a "dangerous precedent."
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Turkish President Recep Erdogan presentation at the United Nations
Turkish President Recep Erdogan presentation at the United Nations
Speaking at the UNGA on Tuesday, Erdogan argued that "skyrocketing racist, xenophobic and anti-Islamic rhetoric," is "one of the biggest threats to global peace and stability." He blamed it on "populist politicians seeking to garner votes... as well as communities normalizing hate speech under the pretext of freedom of speech."
The Turkish president called upon the world leaders to "adopt inclusive and tolerant public rhetoric" in their countries to tackle the problem. He also asked the UN to declare March 15 "the International Day for Solidarity against Islamophobia," to commemorate the killing of 51 worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2018.
Erdogan also brought along a cardboard map of Palestine and Israel, borrowing the technique from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's presentation about the Iranian nuclear program in 2012. "Where does the land of Israel begin and end?" Erdogan asked, pulling up the map showing the shrinking expanse of Palestinian land, from the 1948 UN partition plan to the present day.
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Former US VP Joe Biden in Ukraine
Former US VP Joe Biden in Ukraine
With the revelation by an intel community "whistleblower" that President Donald Trump, in a congratulatory call to the new president of Ukraine, pushed him repeatedly to investigate the Joe Biden family connection to Ukrainian corruption, the cry "Impeach!" is being heard anew in the land.
But revisiting how this latest scandal came about, and how it has begun to unfold, it is a good bet that the principal casualty could be the former vice president.
Consider: In May 2016, Joe Biden, as Barack Obama's designated point man on Ukraine, flew to Kiev to inform President Petro Poroshenko that a billion-dollar U.S. loan guarantee had been approved to enable Kiev to continue to service its mammoth debt. But, said Biden, the aid was conditional. There was a quid pro quo.
If Poroshenko's regime did not fire its chief prosecutor in six hours, Biden would fly home and Ukraine would get no loan guarantee. Ukraine capitulated instantly, said Joe, reveling in his pro-consul role.
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- Biden's Ukrainian ties: Nepotism and corruption scandal or merely 'conservatives pounce'?
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- Trump whistleblower complaint lands Biden in hot seat over Ukraine - UPDATES
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said in a statement that the funding would go towards independent media, civil society, the health sector and the opposition-controlled National Assembly, which is led by Guaido.
Maduro, a socialist who has overseen an economic collapse and is accused of corruption and rights abuses, calls Guaido a coup-mongering US puppet, an accusation likely to be bolstered by USAID's announcement.
In a statement posted on Twitter, Guaido's office thanked USAID for the aid but said it would not administer any of the funds itself, given that it has not yet appointed a comptroller. "100 per cent of the resources will be administered through implementing parties authorized by US authorities," the statement read.
The Obama White House engaged Ukraine to give Russia collusion narrative early boost
While choosing his words carefully, Murphy made clear — by his own account — that Ukraine currently enjoyed bipartisan support for its U.S. aid but that could be jeopardized if the new president acquiesced to requests by President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani to investigate past corruption allegations involving Americans, including former Vice President Joe Biden's family.
Murphy boasted after the meeting that he told the new Ukrainian leader that U.S. aid was his country's "most important asset" and it would be viewed as election meddling and "disastrous for long-term U.S.-Ukraine relations" to bend to the wishes of Trump and Giuliani.
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Sept. 20 photo showing destroyed crude oil processing units at the giant Khurais oil field.
Sept. 20 photo showing destroyed crude oil processing units at the giant Khurais oil field.
The latest Houthi attack against Saudi Arabia's oil facilities required months of preparation due to its multi-purpose objectives. According to a well-informed source, "Iran has been testing - via the Houthis in Yemen - the US and Saudi Arabia's weak defensive systems to find a hole since May this year when an Aramco facility was hit for the first time. The Houthis sent many drones to different parts of the country over the past five months. This was tactical reconnaissance to test radar capabilities and the safest route for hitting crude oil exports and forcing the end of the war in Yemen. Russia is now advertising the advantages of its S-400 missile over the US Patriot missile interception system, which showed itself useless in this attack; Putin's suggestion that the Saudis purchase the Russian system elicited chuckles from Rouhani and Zarif in Ankara."
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Benjamin Netanyahu, left, Reuven Rivlin, center, and Benny Gantz at the President's Residence on September 23, 2019.
Benjamin Netanyahu, left, Reuven Rivlin, center, and Benny Gantz at the President's Residence on September 23, 2019.
Teams from both parties held a 90 minute meeting earlier in a long-shot effort to solve the political deadlock in the wake of last week's national elections.
After midnight Tuesday, the Central Election Committee amended the results, giving Likud an extra seat at the expense of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism. The change gives Likud 32 seats, while UTJ drops from eight seats to seven.
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