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Before she was fired, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, was advised by the US State Department to issue a public statement of loyalty to President Donald Trump, possibly on camera, the impeachment inquiry has heard. Giving evidence to the Intelligence Committee in Washington DC on Monday, the under secretary of state for political affairs, David Hale, described how in March 2019, Ms Yovanovitch came under fire during a “smear campaign†allegedly led by Mr Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani – who apparently wanted her removed from office.
Some families of the 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a truck in Britain last month will take on steep loans from the government to repatriate their relatives' remains, they told AFP Tuesday. Vietnam's foreign ministry said they would help to bring either the ashes or the bodies of the victims back -- but that families would have to cover the cost of repatriation. Families in central Vietnam, where many of the 39 victims come from, said they were desperate to bring their loved ones back nearly four weeks after the tragedy, despite the debt they will have to take on.