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Euroviews. The impeachment hearing eviscerates Trump and shows how he broke the rules of diplomacy ǀ View

In contrast to their day jobs promoting American interests, often through discrete conversations, Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, and Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for Europe, were asked to publicly testify against an administration and a president they continue to serve.

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5 things we learned from US diplomats' impeachment testimony

There were some big surprises during the U.S. diplomats' more than five hours before the House Intelligence Committee.

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Watch: Erdogan visits Trump after US-Turkey diplomatic tension

US president Donald Trump welcomed his Turkish counterpart, president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.

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Euroviews. Turkey's Erdogan is playing Trump at their White House meeting ǀ View

US President Donald Trump invited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to come to Washington Wednesday to demonstrate his dealmaking prowess. Instead, the meeting is only going to further erode the already strained relations between the two countries.

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Trump 'cared more about his own political interests than Ukraine'

A witness testified at Wednesday's first public impeachment hearing that President Donald Trump seemed to care more about his own political interests than about Ukraine's welfare as the US leader assessed ties with that country.

Living

Kanye West to make sustainable shoes, while supporting Donald Trump

The American rapper announces his brand is going green.

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Euroviews. Even local elections are now about Trump. That's bad for the GOP ǀ View

Races for a seat on the Loudoun County, Va., Board of Supervisors don’t usually attract national media coverage. Juli Briskman changed that on Tuesday. The former government contractor won a seat on the nine-member board in Virginia’s fourth-most populous county. By Wednesday she had appeared on CNN

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Euroviews. Why the Trump family selling its D.C. hotel could actually add to ethical concerns ǀ View

Seeking profit and maybe legitimacy, President Donald Trump’s business announced at the end of October that it’s considering selling the lease to its imposing Washington hotel. This should not be taken as a sign of ethical self-awareness.

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Euroviews. Why White House lawyers might not be covering for Trump after all ǀ View

As events surrounding the impeachment inquiry unfold quickly — and occasionally too quickly to digest fully — there is a tendency to assume things we do not yet know and to color things we think we know.

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Ousted Ukraine ambassador: I was told to tweet praise of Trump

The three House committees leading the Trump impeachment inquiry released Monday two transcripts of the behind-closed-doors interviews they have so far conducted.

USA

Trump booed, cheered at UFC fight in New York City

His appearance at Madison Square Garden was the first in his hometown since announcing he was changing his permanent residence to Florida.

USA

US and China edging towards a trade deal, says Trump

Iowa is a farming state that's been hard hit by tariffs after a trade war that's lasted almost sixteen months. It's also crucial to Trump's re-election bid in 2020.

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Trump says 'angry majority' supports him against impeachment drive

Trump says 'angry majority' supports him against impeachment drive

World

'Rattled' - Trump's Twitter bluster a cover says academic

“The louder he shouts, the more you can see he realises he may have... deliberately embarked on an alternative foreign policy without authorisation from Congress," said Professor Scott Lucas.

United Kingdom

Corbyn accuses Trump of interfering in UK elections

The US President told Nigel Farage in a radio interview that Corbyn would be "so bad" and take the UK "into such bad places".

USA

Democrats take major step forward in impeachment effort against Trump

Democrats take major step forward in impeachment effort against Trump

USA

Security official to testify he alerted lawyers to Trump-Ukraine call

Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman will reportedly say that "I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen."

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Euroviews. Trump is using ISIS leader's death to distract from his failures. Don't let him ǀ View

Despite Trump’s grandstanding, and despite even this latest, legitimately positive news regarding Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the past few weeks have not been a collective success. Rather, they have been a boon for America’s adversaries and a catastrophe for its friends.

World

Fight against terrorism far from over despite al-Baghdadi death

European leaders are warning that the fight against terrorism is far from being over following the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The world's most wanted terrorist, and leader of the so-called Islamic State group killed himself during a US military operation in Idlib, northern Syria

Syria

ISIS insider helped in hunt for leader al-Baghdadi

An ISIS insider who gained the trust of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was passing on information about his whereabouts to the United States via Kurdish officials, NBC News' Richard Engel reports.

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