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World Service,10 Feb 2021,53 mins

Storm on Capitol Hill leads to downfall of Trump

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"It is constitutional....", so says the US Senate as it green-lights the continuation of the second impeachment trial of former US President Donald Trump - accused of "inciting insurrection" on Capitol Hill. Calls for the EU's top diplomat to resign after Members of European Parliament say he was humiliated on a recent trip to Russia where they claim he failed to stand up to Moscow over the jailed Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny. A court orders Two Holocaust historians to apologise over accusing a former village mayor in Poland of collaborating with the Nazis. They say they were documenting history fairly. And the United Arab Emirates celebrates its first successful mission to Mars - the 'Hope' satellite is now orbiting the Red planet studying its atmosphere in fine detail.

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