Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump over the Capitol riot will begin the week of Feb. 8, the first time a former president will face such charges after leaving office ... “We all want to put this awful chapter in our nation’s history behind us,” Schumer said about the deadly Jan ... And that is what this trial will provide.” ... ....
Israeli settlers threw petrol bombs at two Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank village of Burin, near Nablus, on Thursday evening, Wafa has reported ... The soldiers then entered the village and opened fire on the villagers ... .......
Sen. Bernie Sanders is feeling the Bern – and the love – after a photo of him sitting alone in his face mask, winter coat and patchwork mittens at Wednesday’s presidential inauguration went viral ... “Yeah, I’ve seen ’em,” the 79-year-old politician said. “What’s been really nice is the woman who made the mittens lives in Essex Junction, Vermont....
Controversial MyPillow CEOMike Lindell is worried that a story in a British tabloid for harming his reputation even as companies shun his pillows following his role in pushing the election fraud conspiracy theories that incited the January 6th insurrection by Trump supporters ... "CharlesHarder is the attorney," Lindell told The Daily Beast ... ....
BERLIN (Reuters) – ChancellorAngela Merkel urged Germans on Thursday to stop complaining about the slow roll-out of a vaccine against COVID-19 and defended a decision to extend a lockdown as necessary to stem a more aggressive variant of the coronavirus ...PowerWomen with Victoria Schneps ... Subscribe. ... How can we even complain?” ... 14 ... ....
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has said he does not plan to commit suicide and thanked his supporters in his first statement since being jailed in one of Moscow’s most notorious prisons upon his return to Russia.....
A clear majority of Swiss voters favour introducing a nationwide prohibition against the wearing of full facial coverings such as burqas and niqabs in public spaces, a poll showed on Friday ... The initiative proposes some exceptions to the ban, including in “places of worship” and for “health reasons” ... Bad idea ... ....
China has passed a law that for the first time explicitly allows its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels, a move that could make the contested South China Sea and nearby waters more choppy. China has maritime sovereignty disputes with Japan in the East China Sea and with several Southeast Asian countries in the South China Sea ... ....
It was supposed to be a banner year for Turkmenistan’s natural gas industry ...The delays are only partly fruit of misfortune ... China National Petroleum Company, or CNPC, secured a $10 billion production-sharing agreement for the field in 2009 – the year the Central Asia-China pipeline came online ... Annualproduction plateaued at 30 bcm in 2016 ... Plan B ... ....