Filing the lawsuit today, the president s attorneys is insisting the subpoena for the president s financial records has no legitimate legislative purpose. Quote, it is the goal his goal is to expose plaintiffs private Financial Information for the sake of exposure in hopes that it will turn up something the democrats can use now and in the 2020 election. Theyre asking for financial records of all of the president s business entities, personal records, even of the trump family children including baron and tiffany trump. All his attorneys say that the suit was predicated on testimony that Michael Cohen gave that donald trump misstated his net worth when he was a private individual. The lawsuit also pointing out cohen is, quote, a felon who pleaded guilty to lying to congress. It goes on to say Democrat Party with its new found control of the u. S. House of representatives has declared all out political war against president donald j. Trump, subpoena are their weapon of choice. The presid
Bill Benjamin Hall picks up our reporting live in london. Lets start with the latest from what is today, benjamin. As you pointed out police are still finding bombs that didnt detonate yesterday on Easter Sunday. It gives an idea of the scale and preparation, and intent which went into this attack to kill as many people as possible. As long as the van that blew up outside one of the churches that was attacked in the last couple of hours, police have also found a huge six foot pipe bomb at one of the airports as well as 87 bomb detonators at one of the bus stations. 290 now among the dead. 39 foreigners and several americans with 500 wounded. The coordinated bombings that ripped through churches and Luxury Hotels killing worshippers and tourists were carried out by seven suicide bombers from a do mess particular group as thowheek jaamath. 24 suspects are in custody. Others blew themselves up when Police Arrived the arrest them. International Officials Say the group was helped possibly f
Prime Minister Modi, Ranil Wickremesinghe of Sri Lanka and Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth of Mauritius to witness the launch of UPI services in Sri Lanka and Mauritius. - PM Modi, President Wickremesinghe, PM Jugnauth To Witness Launch Of UPI Services In Sri Lanka, Mauritius
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First charter flight here on Dec 29 Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
The first charter flight carrying foreign tourists following the re-opening of the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), will arrive in Sri Lanka with 300 passengers from Kazakhstan on Tuesday (29).
These passengers will be arriving on the Kazakhstan flag carrier Air Astana, a Tourism Ministry spokesman said.
This follows the Government lifting the ban on passenger Charter flights to Sri Lanka from today to kick start a tourism drive. Due to logistical reasons, the first flights will however arrive from December 29.
The Tourism Ministry spokesman also asserted that Russian flag carrier Aeroflot which was to fly 300 passengers to Colombo today, will now operate the flight on December 31. A spokesman for the Airport and Aviation and Services (Sri Lanka) also confirmed this date.