Congress formally opened a new, public phase of its presidential investigation Thursday as US lawmakers voted for the first time to advance the impeachment process against Donald Trump.
“Today, the House takes the next step forward as we establish the procedures for open hearings conducted by the House Intelligence Committee so that the public can see the facts for themselves,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said shortly before the vote.
The chamber voted largely along party lines, 232 to 196, to formalize the process, which also provides for opportunities for Trump’s counsel …
Israeli forces arrested a prominent Palestinian politician from her home in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah overnight on Thursday.
Khalida Jarrar, a former member of the defunct Palestinian Legislative Council, was arrested at 3am local time (00:00 GMT) and taken to an unknown area, local media reported.
According to her daughter Yara Jarrar, the house was surrounded by more than Israeli 70 soldiers who arrived in 12 military vehicles.
“Mom and sister were asleep when they approached,” Yara said in a post on Twitter.
The 56-year-old Jarrar, who is associated with the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation
A company identified as Bricks told its staff “that residents should move around with valid means of identification, and obey all directives by security agents,” as the army was about to launch a nationwide “Operation Positive Identification”
The operation, according to the statement, will start from November 1, 2019, and lasts until December 23, 2019.
The army said the information contained
France’s World Cup-winning midfielder N’Golo Kante is due to return to training with Chelsea after almost a month on the sidelines, said Chelsea manager Frank Lampard.
The manager is counting on the 28-year-old’s return to ease the workload being shared by Jorginho and Mateo Kovacic, who both played the full 90 minutes in the 2-1 League Cup fourth-round defeat by Manchester United on Wednesday.
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Defeat ended Chelsea’s seven-match winning streak and Lampard suggested that the setback was due to a shortage of midfield options.
“He (Kante) is hopefully
Facebook will pay a £500,000 fine imposed by the UK’s data protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. As part of the deal, Facebook will make no admission of liability.
The US firm said it “wished it had done more to investigate Cambridge Analytica” earlier. Facebook’s legal team underscored that the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has not discovered evidence EU user data was transferred to Cambridge Analytica but committed to cooperate with the ongoing investigation on the use of data analytics for political purposes.
Cambridge researcher Dr Aleksandr …
According to Corriere dello Sport, Barca and City are willing to have the player’s signature after falling out of Maurizio Sarri’s first-team choice, making only three starts this season.
The Uruguay international turned 22 back in June and has been in Turin since the summer of 2017 in a €12.5m deal, when he joined from Argentine giants Boca Juniors.
Last season, he made 40 appearances contributing two goals and three assists last season.
The farmers, who spoke separately with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Thursday in Dutse, were worried that the current irregular rainfall pattern would adversely affect their crops and farming season.
Malam Abubakar Abdullahi said that the prolonged rainfall would affect the growth and production of commodities such as beans, sesame and guinea corn.
Abdullahi said that beans, sesame and guinea corn were drought- resistant crops, therefore, did not require too much rainfall.
There will soon be another member of the Kardashian-West crew to keep up with.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are expecting a baby through a surrogate, Us Weekly and People reported.
It will be the fourth child for the reality star and the hip hop artist, who also have 5-year-old daughter North, 3-year-old son Saint and 11-month-old daughter Chicago.
The new bundle of joy is expected to be a boy and is due at the beginning of May, according to Us Weekly.
A rep for West declined comment, while a rep for Kardashian did not immediately respond to a request
Kanu told the presiding judge, Justice Binta Nyako, through his counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor.
Ejiofor told the court that the application to restore the IPOB leader’s bail so that he could face his trial was filed on April 1.
“We have an application for bail filed on April 1, 2019, the application was served on the prosecution and it is ripped for hearing.
“We urge …
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has pledged the state’s preparedness to support prospective investors in the coconut value chain.
He assured potential investors of bountiful return on their investments.
The governor disclosed this at maiden international coconut Summit held in Lagos recently.
Sanwo-Olu who was represented by the Commissioner for Agriculture, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, also stated his administration’s readiness to provide the enabling environment necessary to fully harness potential in the coconut value chain.
He pointed out that with oil prices averaging $63 per barrel this year, there …
