REUTERS

Democrats planned to plow ahead on Thursday at U.S. President Donald
Trump’s impeachment trial with their arguments for removing him from
office, but Republicans showed no signs of softening their resistance to
the Democratic case.

Some members of the U.S. Senate hearing President Donald Trump’s
impeachment trial, a proceeding following decades-old precedent, said they
welcomed at least one of the chamber’s anachronistic rules: a ban on
cellphones.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Iran on Thursday as
“the most anti-Semitic regime on the planet”, telling world leaders at a
Holocaust memorial event that Israel would always defend itself against
those seeking to destroy it.

China put millions of people on lock down on Thursday in two cities at the
epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak that has killed 17 people and infected
more than 630, as authorities around the world worked to prevent a global
pandemic.

China’s aviation regulator said…