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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have set the stage for certain House approval of the ground rules lawmakers will use when they consider impeaching President Donald Trump as the chamber braced for its first showdown over the inquiry.

There was no doubt that the Democratic-controlled body would approve the eight pages of procedures on Thursday, with each side likely to lose a handful of defectors, if any.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s top adviser for Russian and European affairs is leaving his job at the White House, a day before he’s scheduled to testify before the House impeachment investigators, a senior administration official said.

Tim Morrison owes his job at the National Security Council to Trump, but his testimony Thursday in the House impeachment inquiry might be central to a push to remove the president from office.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30 (APP): Pakistan’s outgoing Ambassador, Maleeha Lodhi, Tuesday made an impassioned plea to the UN Security Council to “safeguard and protect” the suffering women in curfew-bound Indian Occupied Kashmir, with the chamber bursting into applause when she also announced that it was her last appearance in the 15-member body.

Washington, Oct 30; GANASHAKTI: An Indian-American attorney has urged US lawmakers to schedule a bipartisan Congressional fact-finding mission to Kashmir, a day after a delegation of the European Union (EU) parliamentarians visited the Valley for an on the ground assessment of the situation there.

A delegation of 23 EU MPs arrived in Srinagar on Tuesday on a two-day visit to assess the situation in Jammu and Kashmir after the Indian government revoked its special status on August 5.

30 October 2019; AFP: The US House of Representatives passed a resolution Tuesday officially recognizing the "Armenian genocide," a symbolic but unprecedented move that angered Turkey amid already heightened tensions with Washington.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior White House official testified on Tuesday he was so alarmed by hearing U.S. President Donald Trump ask Ukraine’s president to investigate a political rival, Democrat Joe Biden, that he reported the matter to a White House lawyer.

Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman became the first current White House staff member to testify in the Democratic-led House of Representatives inquiry into whether to impeach the Republican president.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at slapping sanctions on Turkey over its military offensive in northern Syria.

The vote was 403 to 16, with only 15 Republicans and one Democrat voting against the measure.

The bill is the latest Congress effort to disapprove of U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria as Turkey launched an operation in the area targeting Syria's Kurdish forces.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- House Democrats on Tuesday released the text of a resolution aimed at formalizing procedures of an impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump, paving the way for opening hearings and fresh clashes with the White House.

The resolution, unveiled by House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern, lays out procedures for the lower chamber's intelligence panel to conduct public hearings and release witness testimony.

DENTON, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a North Texas police officer is in critical but stable condition after being shot during a traffic stop, and two suspects who fled were later taken into custody and treated for gunshot wounds.

Denton police say Officer Urbano Rodriguez Jr. was wounded in the head and leg. Police Chief Frank Dixon said the officer’s prospects for recovery were favorable after surgery, but he faces “a long path to recovery.”

MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A 13-year-old complained to an administrator that he was being bullied at his Southern California middle school days before the assault that killed him, the boy’s family said.

Juana and Felipe Salcedo, the aunt and uncle of Diego Stolz who raised the boy since his parents died, filed a legal claim against the Moreno Valley Unified School District, the Los Angeles Times reports Tuesday.