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US President Trump: “Major Breakthrough” in Economic Relations Between Serbia and Kosovo


Time: 6:53 p.m. CEST

Belgrade to move embassy in Jerusalem, Israel would recognize Kosovo

After two-days of intensive talks in Washington D.C., the US President Donald Trump announced as he called a “major breakthrough” in normalization of the economic relations between Serbia and Kosovo.

Trump gave no details of the agreement, signed by the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo, but said within the talks Serbia committed to moving its embassy in Jerusalem, and Kosovo and Israel agreed to establish diplomatic relations. Trump, speaking in the Oval Office before a meeting with the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo, said his administration “propose a new way of bridging the divide” with job creation and economic growth.

Serbian public broadcaster publishes on its website, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic statement, which stated Serbia signed a “bilateral agreement with the US.” According to Vucic, this is not a “trilateral agreement,” as third party is not “the subject of international law.”

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A Whistle-Blower Complaint Shades Role of Kurt Volker in Recent Controversy in US with Ukraine


Time: 11:02 p.m. CEST

The most recent released document, which is a whistle-blower complaint against the President Donald Trump shows that the Senior White House officials tried to “lock down” all details of a phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The read out of the call that was declassified and published by the White House exposes the request by the US President Trump to ask of Zelensky to investigate a political rival, a front runner in the Democratic race for a presidential candidate in 2020 Presidential elections, Joe Biden.

The whistle-blower complaint says the transcript was not “stored” in the usual computer system, but instead it was on the system for a covert operations. The document reveals different dates, names and actions, both by the US and Ukraine officials in the period before and after the call between Trump and Zelensky.

A whistleblower, described by the New York Times as a CIA analyst in training and in knowledge of the Ukraine affairs, is not sure who initiated the call, according to the publicly released document. The US President Trump said he blocked about $400 million in military aid to Ukraine, but he said it was not to pressure Zelensky into Ukraine’s investigation of Biden and his son.

The House of Representatives intelligence committee started with a hearing to question officials on the issue. Acting National Intelligence Director Joseph Maquire refused to share the complaint with Congress. The document points a new light on to the role of Kurt Volker, a special US representative into Ukraine. A former US NATO diplomat has its own role in the recent controversy. As NBC reports, “the State Department has acknowledged that it was Volker who put Giuliani in ‘direct contact’ with Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.”

The connections, as NBC says, “happened around the same time as Zelenskiy’s call with Trump.” The State Department didn’t respond to the request by NBC News to comment the message Giuliani forwarded to NBC News, and it was sent to him on July 19 by Volker. “Connecting you here with Andrey Yermak, who is very close to President Zelensky,” the message of Volker said, according to Giuliani.

In a most recent political saga in the US, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House of Representatives, where the Democrats hold majority of seats, starts an impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Democrats point out to President Trump as one who broke the law by “pressuring the president of Ukraine to open a corruption investigation connected to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.”

The complaint was filed last month and said, as the New York Times points out, “the White House officials believed they had witnessed President Trump abused his power for political gain.”

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House Speaker Pelosi Orders Impeachment Inquiry Against President Trump


Time: 12:26 a.m. CEST

The US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House would launch “a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump,” the Associated Press reports. The request should fine of Trump abused “his presidential powers and sought help from a foreign government for his reelection.” According to Pelosi, “no one is above the law.” The probe comes after reports that Trump asked pf Ukraine’s president to “investigate Democratic foe Joe Biden and his son.”

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for launching a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump, CNN reports.

This is the biggest confrontation between the Democrats and President Trump. Trump, who addressed the United Nations today said the impending inquiry is a “witch hunt.” CNN reports that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris posted on Twitter that “he must be impeached.” As Harris stated, he “puts his political interest over our national interest.”

Soon after Pelosi made her announcement on impeachment inquiry, the US Senate unanimously supported “for the whistleblower complaint to be provided to Congress.” As CBS news writes, “House Democrats are pressing for an investigation of a call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.” During a call, Trump talked about Biden and his son Hunter. Now, the call is subject of the “whistleblower complaint,” which “the intelligence community inspector general found as “credible” and of “urgent concern.” Joseph Maquire, acting director of national intelligence “determined that was not of urgent concern.”

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US President Donald Trump Left Vietnam without Agreement with North Korean President Kim Jong Un


Time: 11:07 a.m. CEST

The U.S. President Donald Trump left Vietnam after he made no agreement with North Korean President Kim Jong Un at a second summit on denuclearization. CNN reports that, “White House released a statement saying the talks had ended with no agreement reached.”

A summit in Hanoi between the U.S. President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended on Thursday without agreement, President Trump confirmed to media following the second meeting of two leaders. According to Trump, who talked to media at the brief news conference in Vietnam, North Korea wanted of US to lift all sanctions that are imposed to their country, but the US cannot do that.

“It was about the sanctions,” BBC News cites Trump who talked after the talks ended on second-day meeting and without progress on denuclearization. “Sometimes you have to walk and this was one of those times,” Tramp explained adding that, “no plans had been made for a third summit.”

At the news conference, as BBC News reports, “Trump said, ‘Kim has willing to dismantle the Yongbyon complex,’ but wanted lifting of all sanctions.” CNN added that, Kim remains in Vietnam for an official visit on Friday. Trump would “phone South Korean President Moon Jae-in and to brief Japanese Prime minister Shinzo Abe on the failed talks.”

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US President Trump Offers “Common-Sense Compromise” to End Government Shutdown


US President Donald Trump remarks on government shutdown and immigration

The U.S. President Donald Trump offered his plans for ending the partial government shutdown and solving “crisis at the Southern border.” Trump called his plan “common-sense compromise” and said this is “a chance for real bipartisan immigration reform.”

One of his proposals, he delivered in a speech at 3 p.m. ET, includes a “compromise” on Dreamers, who were brought into the US as a children illegally. The program that protects Dreamers offers them a protection from deportation and a work permit.

Trump tried to rescind the program. With Trump’s proposal, 700.000 Dreamers would have three more years in the U.S. with work permits. Trump would extend visas for about 300.000 Temporary Protection Status holders coming from countries affected by wars and disasters.

Here is what Trump proposed:

Legislative relief for 700.000 DACA recipients for three years

Extension of TPS for immigrants facing protection expiration

$800 million in humanitarian assistance

$805 million for drug detection technology

2.705 border agents

75 new immigration judge teams

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement that, “initial reports make clear that his proposal is a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people’s lives.”

The partial shutdown affects about 800,000 federal workers who are not receiving their paychecks. Trump said, “I am here to break the log jam and provide Congress with a path forward to end the government shutdown and solve the crisis on the southern border.”

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Trump asked Congress to rise Above Party Politics in Support of National Security


The U.S. President Donald Trump insisted on funding of the US-Mexico border in his eight-minute address to nation from the Oval Office, which the major TV network aired regardless concerns he would deliver a political speech. The speech came amid 18-day partial government shutdown over the wall with Mexico, funding that Democratic controlled House and some Republicans in the Congress are not eager to support.

Trump missed to declare an emergency, which would enable him to ensure funding for a steel barrier with Mexico in attempts to control illegal migration and illegal cross-border crossings. Trump requested $5, 7 billion for the wall, but the Democrats in the House refuse to fund it. That led to the ongoing closure of several federal agencies and leave government workers unpaid.

Trump called Democrats to pass a spending bill. The Republican president thinks the situation could be solved “in a 45-minute meeting.” He would visit Capitol on Wednesday and said he invited “Congressional leadership to the White House tomorrow.” Trump addressed nation on Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET, and he is scheduled to visit the border on Thursday.

He called the situation at the border “a humanitarian crisis,” and added “90% of the heroin sold in the US came from Mexico.” Trump referred that in the past Democrats pledged for a physical barrier.

Mr Trump correctly pointed out that Democrats have in the past supported a physical barrier. Senators Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden supported the Secure Fence Act in 2006, which introduced fencing of about 2.000-mile border. Trump pointed out that American citizens were “savagely murdered in cold blood” by “undocumented immigrants.”

Mr Trump cited cases of American citizens “savagely murdered in cold blood” by undocumented immigrants.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer reacted and demanded the end of the shutdown. Pelosi said that the President Trump “must stop holding the American people hostage, must stop manufacturing a crisis, and must reopen the government.” Just over half of Americans thinks Trump is responsible for the government shutdown, new opinion poll shows. Reuters/Ipsos poll said 77% of Republicans approved Trump refusal to approve the budget without the wall funds.

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