Donald Trump impeachment trial to resume for final arguments

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President Donald Trump's denunciation preliminary resumes for definite contentions on Monday before a normal absolution later in the week that Democrats have said will be invalid on the grounds that no observers affirmed. The president was arraigned in December for maltreatment of control over weight on US partner Ukraine to report examinations that would have helped him strategically, including into Joe Biden, a main challenger during the current year's presidential polling form.
Biden is among the competitors Monday in the Iowa councils that pick the state's Democratic chosen one and imprint the official beginning of political decision season. The determination procedure in to a great extent rustic Iowa, corresponding with definite prosecution contentions in Washington, will be firmly looked as a sign regarding which of 11 Democratic competitors are increasing early force to challenge Trump in November's political race.
At just the third prosecution preliminary of a US president, Trump is everything except guaranteed of being vindicated Wednesday, the day after his yearly "Condition of the Union" discourse, which the president said will convey an "extremely, positive message".
Republicans hold 53 seats in the Senate to 47 for the Democrats, yet a 66% greater part, or 67 representatives, is expected to expel him from office.
Adam Schiff, the pioneer of the House investigators, known as denunciation administrators, told CBS on Sunday that it was "quite exceptional" that congresspersons on the two sides had recognized that Democrats demonstrated their body of evidence against the president.

"However, I'm not letting the congresspersons free. We're despite everything going to go into the Senate this week and put forth the defense why this president should be expelled....READ MORE

China 'won't allow' G20 discussion on Hong Kong during Xi-Trump meet

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China said Monday it will not allow discussion on Hong Kong at the G20 this week even as US President Donald Trump plans to raise the city's mass protests during his meeting with President Xi Jinping.
The semi-autonomous city has been shaken by huge demonstrations this month as throngs have demanded the withdrawal of a bill that would allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland.
Trump has weighed in on Hong Kong's worst political unrest since its handover from Britain to China in 1997, saying he understood the reason for the protests and hoped demonstrators can "work it out with China".
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo later said Trump would discuss Hong Kong with Xi at the Group of 20 summit, which is taking place in Osaka, Japan on Friday and Saturday.
But Chinese assistant foreign minister Zhang Jun said the G20 is a forum to focus on global economic issues.
Xi and Trump have agreed to hold bilateral talks focusing on the US-China trade war during the summit.
"I can tell you with certainty that the G20 will not discuss the Hong Kong issue and we will not allow the G20 to discuss the Hong Kong issue," Zhang said at a press briefing previewing Xi's G20 attendance.

 "Hong Kong affairs are purely China's internal affairs and no foreign country has the right to intervene," he said, recalling that the city is a special administrative region of China.

US says N Korea program in conflict with UN resolutions, after Trump tweet

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The US State Department has on Tuesday said that North Korea's overall program of weapons of mass destruction violated UN resolutions, after President Donald Trump brushed off recent missile launches.

Choosing words carefully after Trump's latest warm words for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus declined to say if North Korea's launches were of ballistic missiles or constituted weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

"I think the entire North Korean WMD program, it's in conflict with the UN Security (Council) resolutions," Ortagus told reporters on Tuesday.

She said the United States wanted a favorable relationship between Trump and Kim with a goal to "negotiate a peaceful end to the North Korean WMD program." "We have said many times and we will continue to reiterate that the economic sanctions will remain in place until we're there," she said.
When he arrived in Japan for a weekend state visit, Trump tweeted that North Korea had tested "some small weapons" that had "disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me." He appeared to be referring to his National Security Advisor John Bolton, who said Saturday there was "no doubt" that North Korea's launches had contravened United Nations Security Council resolutions.


 North Korea wasted no time piling onto Bolton, who has long promoted a hawkish foreign policy, calling him a "human defect" and "war maniac." North Korea has previously called for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to be excluded from negotiations after he apparently pressed Trump at his February summit with Kim in Hanoi not to accept sanctions relief without further action by Pyongyang in ending its nuclear program.