Trump’s Lawyers to Wrap Up Defense in Impeachment Trial

WASHINGTON – Lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump wrap up their presentation in his Senate impeachment trial Tuesday while the question of whether witnesses will be allowed during the proceedings looms. The... Read more »

Did Tweets Help Deescalate Recent US-Iran Tensions?

VOA – WASHINGTON – Minutes after Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles against U.S. forces in Iraq earlier this month, its foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, came out with a tweet,... Read more »

Coronavirus Infections Rise In China, Around World

VOA – Fifty-six people in China have died from the coronavirus, according to Chinese officials,. Nearly 2,000 people in China have been infected by the deadly contagion. National Health Commission Minister Ma... Read more »

Iran Uses Violence, Politics to Try to Push US Out of Iraq

VOA _ BEIRUT – Iran has long sought the withdrawal of American forces from neighboring Iraq, but the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and an Iraqi militia commander in Baghdad has... Read more »

Iran Considers Dual Nationals оn Downed Ukrainian Plane to Be Iranians

VOA – DUBAI – Iran considers the passengers with dual nationality, who were on a Ukrainian plane that was shot down accidentally earlier this month, killing all on board, to be Iranian... Read more »

White House, House Lawmakers Lay Out Impeachment Cases as Trial Looms

VOA – WASHINGTON – White House lawyers are due to submit Monday a brief detailing their arguments in the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump, a day before the proceedings begin... Read more »

Iran May Review IAEA Cooperation if European Pressure Mounts

VOA – The influential speaker of Iran’s parliament said on Sunday that, if European powers “for any reason” take an “unfair” approach to the dispute mechanism in the 4-year-old nuclear deal that... Read more »

Trump Adds Big Names to Impeachment Defense Team

VOA – WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has assembled a made-for-TV legal team for his Senate impeachment trial.  The team includes Ken Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation two decades ago resulted in the impeachment of... Read more »

Will Latest Iran Protests Spark Popular Uprising?

VOA -“My expectation is that the demonstrations, however large they may be, are really not huge and are really not likely to metastasize a lot more,” said Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow... Read more »

Iranian Students Stage Noisy Rallies at 4 Tehran Universities

WEB – Iranian students have staged noisy rallies at four Tehran universities in a fourth day of protests against Iran’s Islamist rulers after they admitted to mistakenly shooting down a passenger jet... Read more »