Lawyer ‘might quit’ over Trump tweets
Washington: US
Attorney General William Barr has said he is considering quitting his post after President Donald Trump ignored his warning to stop tweeting about Justice Department cases, according to a Trump administration official.
The official told The Associated Press Mr Barr made his comments to friends.
The revelation came days after Mr Barr took a public swipe at the president, saying in a television interview Mr Trump’s tweets about Justice Department cases and staffers had made it “impossible” for him to do his job.
The next day, Mr
Trump ignored Mr Barr’s request and insisted he had the “legal right” to intervene in criminal cases and sidestep the Justice Department’s historical independence.
Mr Trump tweeted on Tuesday he was considering suing those involved in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Kuala Lumpur: Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has claimed the “top levels” of the Malaysian government long suspected the vanishing of a plane almost six years ago was a mass murder-suicide by the pilot.
Mr Abbott was prime minister when Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 carrying 239 people disappeared on March 8 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Australia, working on Malaysia’s behalf, co-ordinated what became the largest search in aviation history, but it failed to find the plane before being ended in 2017.
Mr Abbott said now high-ranking Malaysian officials believed veteran pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah deliberately downed the jet.
“My very clear understanding, from the very top levels of the Malaysian government, is that from very, very early on, they thought it was murder-suicide by the pilot,” said Mr Abbott, who was PM from 2013 to 2015.
“I’m not going to say who said what to whom, but let me reiterate, I want to be absolutely crystal clear, it was understood at the highest levels that this was almost certainly murder-suicide by the pilot.”
Brussels: Ongoing uncertainty about the effects of Brexit is pushing an increasing number of foreign companies to set up offices in the Netherlands, the Dutch government has said.
Since the 2016 referendum, 140 businesses have established a presence in the Netherlands, with 78 shifting operations there last year, according to the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency.
The agency said it is in talks with around 425 companies considering moving or expanding to the Netherlands because of Brexit. Firms come from Britain, but also include businesses from the Americas and Asia.