US-Pak ties PAGE US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice World 9 Wells arrives on a 4-day visit to Pakistan DECCAN CHRONICLE MONDAY | 20 JANUARY 2020 | HYDERABAD IN BRIEF Mexico blocks Impeachment brazen: Trump lawyers caravan travellers Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico: 500 Prez’s legal team presents its line of defence, terms trial ‘unconstitutional, dangerous’ Central American migrants to maintain “order and respect” on Washington, Jan. 18: ■ The legal docu- Saturday after the group President Donald Trump’s attempted to force entry into the legal team presented ment offers a taste Trump trial could be country from Guatemala in the Saturday its line of of the rhetoric hopes of trekking onward to the defense for his upcoming expected to be United States. Standing on the impeachment trial, a over in two weeks wall above the Rodolfo Robles process they dismissed as deployed by the Washington: Bill Clinton’s Trump’s trial for abuse of International Bridge that con- unconstitutional and “dan- president’s defend- 1999 impeachment trial power and obstruction of nects Mexico with its southern gerous.” ers in the Senate. lasted five weeks; Andrew Congress opened with a neighbor, National Guard General It was the first time the Johnson’s went on for three solemn, ceremonial read- Vincente Hernandez told team presented its argu- House of Representatives - months in 1868. If the ing of the charges in the migrants they would be allowed ments, modelled on those - “are a dangerous attack White House and Senate on Thursday, but the to cross the border in a “con- put forward since on the right of the Republicans have their rules and schedule have not trolled”manner. December by Trump and American people to freely way, President Donald been set. That will be decid- “With order and respect, all will his fellow Republicans. choose their president.” Trump's trial will be over ed on Tuesday, with the 100 be served. There are opportuni- White House counsel Pat “This is a brazen and in two weeks, just in time senators debating voting on ties for everyone,” said Cipollone will be lead unlawful attempt to over- for him to celebrate his procedures: the time given Hernandez, who also coordinates lawyer, backed by Trump’s turn the results of the 2016 expected acquittal in the to opening arguments from the National Guard operations personal attorney Jay election and interfere with February 4 State of the the prosecution and along the Suchiate River, the nat- Sekulow. They will be the 2020 election,” the Union Address. defense, and questioning by ural border between Mexico and joined by Ken Starr, who team said in a statement. But that depends on the senators -- the jury in Guatemala. was at the centre of Bill Trump has been Republicans being able to the case. Democrats are Clinton’s impeachment in impeached on charges that An activist wearing a mask depicting US President Donald Trump holds a placard as he block Democrat demands demanding that the Senate Eight die in Czech the 1990s, and celebrity he abused his office to try takes part in a gathering called by activists in Landquart on Sunday — AFP to subpoena documents agree to subpoena crucial lawyer Alan Dershowitz. and force Ukraine into dig- and witnesses that could documents and four cur- In an initial response to ging up dirt on leading President Volodymyr invalid on their face. They team said the articles vio- strengthen the case against rent and former senior disability home fire the president’s being char- Democratic presidential Zelensky. fail to allege any crime or late the Constitution the president. So far, White House officials to ged, written by Cipollone candidate Joe Biden by He was also impeached violation of law whatsoev- because they are “the prod- Republicans, led by testify. They include former Prague: At least eight people and Sekulow, the defense withholding $400 million for allegedly obstructing er,” the defense team said. uct of invalid proceedings Trump's tough protector, national security advisor died and thirty were injured after said that the articles of in military aid and a White Congress. In a call with reporters that flagrantly denied the Senate Majority Leader John Bolton and Trump a fire at a home for people with impeachment - passed by House meeting with his “The articles of impeach- earlier Saturday, a source president any due process Mitch McConnell, have the acting chief of staff Mick learning disabilities in a western the majority-Democrat Ukrainian counterpart ment are constitutionally close to Trump's legal rights.” — AFP upper hand. Mulvaney. — AFP Czech town early Sunday, res- cuers said. “A total of 38 people were affected by the fire, of them eight unfortunately died,” emergency services spokesman Baghdad erupts again Prokop Volenik said. He said 30 Victims’ bodies sent people were taken to hospital — one in critical condition, three with serious injuries and 26 with light or no injuries. Czech media said the fire was reported at from Iran to Ukraine 0349 GMT and that it has been put out. “The fire broke out in Kiev, Jan. 19: Around a The airline staff and rel- the boys’ section of a home for thousand people includ- atives formed two lines to the mentally handicapped,” said ing President Volodymyr make a corridor through Jitka Gavdunova, the mayor of Zelensky bid farewell to which the honour guard Vejprty, a small town on the Ukrainians who died in a carried the caskets draped German border some 100 kilo- plane mistakenly shot in the yellow-and-blue flag metres (60 miles) northwest of down by Iran during a of Ukraine. Prague. Volenik said all of those spike in tensions with Some men fell to one affected were adults. The broad- Washington. knee to honour the vic- sheet DNES daily quoted Zelensky laid flowers on tims. The honour guard Gavdunova as saying the clients the flag-draped coffins of also held flags of the of the home had tried to set it the 11 Ukrainian victims - countries whose citizens on fire in the past, and that the nine flight crew and two Soldiers carry the flag- perished in the crash. home was heavily understaffed. passengers - during the draped coffins of the 11 The Kiev-bound UIA “The deputy mayor ran into the solemn ceremony at Ukrainians who died in a Boeing 737 crashed short- fire to help the clients and he Kiev’s Boryspil airport plane mistakenly shot ly after taking off from paid for it. He's now in hospital and briefly spoke to their down by Iran at Kiev's Tehran on January 8, under observation,” said relatives. Boryspil airport on killing all 176 people on Gavdunova. The caskets were to Sunday — AFP board, mostly Iranian and remain for several hours Canadian citizens. at the terminal so that rel- ■ IRAN’S PARLIA- “Deep condolences to Taliban kill atives, Ukraine Intern- the relatives and eternal ational Airlines staff and MENTARY speaker memory to the victims,” six of same family ordinary Ukrainians cou- has warned of Oleksiy Danilov, secretary ld say their last goodbyes. unspecified reper- of Ukraine’s Security The funerals are expect- cussions for the Council, said on Kabul: Afghan officials said ed to be held on Monday. Facebook. on Sunday that the Taliban Earlier Sunday the UN’s nuclear watch- “Our work will not end executed six members of the black-clad Ukrainian dog if European until the full clarification same family, including an leader, Prime Minister nations that of the circumstances of infant girl, in a remote village Oleksiy Goncharuk and the tragedy and the pun- in the country’s north. top officials stood on the launched a dispute ishment of the guilty,” he The Taliban denied any tarmac outside the termi- mechanism against added. Ukrainian Foreign involvement, saying the nal to see the caskets with the Islamic republic Minister Vadym Prys- attack Saturday was trig- the remains of the act “unfairly”. taiko said on Twitter he gered by a personal dispute. Iraqi youth angry at their government’s glacial pace of reform ramped up their protests on Sunday, sealing streets downed plane's nine was “deeply grateful for However, local Afghan offi- with burning tyres and threatening further escalation unless their demands are met. The rallies demanding an over- Ukrainian flight crew and Ukraine International the messages of condo- cials said the family was haul of the ruling system have rocked Shiite-majority parts of Iraq since October, but had thinned out in recent two passengers being Airlines staff, some in lence & solidarity that we accused by the Taliban of weeks amid rising Iran-US tensions. — AP removed from the air- tears, stood nearby clutch- have received from aro- working in prostitution. The craft. ing flowers. und the world.” — AFP insurgents sentenced them to death for immoral acts, then stormed the house and YEMEN: 80 opened fire, according to Jawed Bedar, a spokesman SOLDIERS KILLED for Faryab province’s gover- Boycott Communist Party: HK protesters nor. The infant girl’s mother and twin sister survived, but Hong Kong, Jan. 19: ■ TWO POLICE offi- rally. Earlier in the day, Lau IN DRONE ATTACK both of the child’s legs had Clashes broke out between said he believes more large- to be amputated. protesters and police in cers were beaten scale protests are needed Dubai, Jan.19: More Hong Kong on Sunday, cut- bloody by pro- for global attention to than 80 Yemeni soldiers ting short a rally after thou- democracy protest- return to Hong Kong, with have been killed and sands had gathered at a ers in Hong Kong the protest movement los- scores injured in a mis- Israel to install park to call for electoral ing some of its momentum sile and drone attack reforms and a boycott of Sunday.