Accosted by a protester demanding that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh take a lie detector test, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) quipped that maybe Kavanaugh should be subjected to a witch hunt test instead. “If he would take a polygraph, this would all be over!” a woman yelled at Graham inside a corridor on Capitol […]
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How long will you be in Iraq & Afghanistan? Erdogan rebuffs US call to limit Afrin operation
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the US call to limit the time and scope of his nation’s operation in Afrin, Syria, pointing to Washington’s decades-long military presence in other countries. The US asked Ankara on Sunday to “ensure that its military operations remain limited in scope and duration.” “The Afrin operation will end […]
Daimler rebuffs Geely offer to buy stake
HONG KONG/BEIJING – Daimler AG has turned down an offer from China‘s Geely to take a stake of up to 5 percent via a discounted share placement, as the German automaker has long been reluctant to see existing shareholdings diluted, sources with knowledge of the talks said. A stake of that size would be worth […]