Special to WorldTribune.com Libya’s UN-backed unity government may get the blessing of one of the country’s most powerful military leaders. Gen. Khalifa Haftar, leader of the Tobruk-based Libyan National Army, has pledged to support any unity government that receives the parliament’s confidence. Meanwhile, Haftar was to meet with Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi in Cairo […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The U.S. Navy has introduced new technology to the world’s largest maritime exercise. Underwater drones and the expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Choctaw County will be included for the first time in the International Mine Countermeasures Exercise (IMCMEX), led by the Bahrain-based U.S. Fifth Fleet. The exercise got underway on April 4 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders used what was called a grossly exaggerated casualty figure when he accused Israel of killing more than 10,000 “innocent civilians” in the Gaza Strip during the 2014 war with Hamas. Sanders made the comments in a meeting with the New York Daily News editorial board, a transcript […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, EastAsiaIntel.com Remember the “One Belt One Road” (OBOR), a multi-trillion-dollar intercontinental project that underpins President Xi Jinping’s ambition to catapult China to super-power status? The “Silk Road Economic Belt” links China with Central Asia, Turkey and all the way to Eastern Europe through a series of high-speed railways, highways […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said on state television on April 6 that the country’s crude output within a year will reach the presanctions peak of 4 million barrels a day. Iran’s oil exports by March 2017 will reach 2.25 million barrels a day, thanks […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders The news that Mexico is moving one more step to break the monopoly of Petróleos Mexicanos [Pemex], the government-owned producer and until now monopoly retailer, is big and good news. With the world’s tenth largest economy, Mexican growth at between four and five percent over the past few […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Drudge-Select — April 6, 2016 c/o DrudgeReport.com ALIBABA Surpasses WALMART As Largest Retail Company In World… Obama going to Saudi Arabia, bow to King… First Syrians leave for USA under ‘surge’ resettlement program… ‘Exorcism and Demonic Possession’ Course Returns to Rome… ‘Demonic’ arches rising in New York, London… STUDY: ‘Climate’ forecasts may […]
Special to WorldTribune.com In a boost to Libya’s unity government, the rival government in Tripoli has resigned. The National Salvation government on April 5 said it would “cease duties” as an executive authority. “We put the interests of the nation above anything else, and stress that the bloodshed stop and the nation be saved from […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Muhannad Halabi, the terrorist who killed two Israelis in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City in early October, has become a hero among Palestinians as the Palestinian Authority named a soccer tournament and a road after him and awarded him an honorary law degree. The man’s family has used donations from […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Amnesty International says the number of confirmed executions across the world surged to its highest level in more than two decades in 2015, fueled by the rising use of capital punishment in Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. In a report released on April 6, the London-based […]
