by WorldTribune Staff, November 10, 2016 The leader of a Syrian opposition group is calling on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to help protect Syrian civilians from the ongoing brutality of the Bashar Assad regime. Riad Hijab, head of the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), said on Nov. 9 that Syrian civilians were in urgent need of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 9, 2016 While world leaders were quick to congratulate Donald Trump for his historic victory on Nov. 8, shell-shocked foreign policy types were not so sure the sun would come up on Nov. 9 as President Barack Obama had assured. Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi was the first leaders to phone […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 9, 2016 The rift between Egypt and Saudi Arabia appeared to widen on Nov. 8 when the Saudis indefinitely halted oil shipments to Cairo. Saudi King Salman in April agreed to provide Egypt with 700,000 tons of refined oil products per month for five years but the shipments stopped arriving in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Tom Balmforth, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty MOSCOW — As the news of Donald Trump’s upset victory in the U.S. presidential election rolled into Russia, there was jubilation among many allies of President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin — which has demonized Hillary Clinton and seemed to root for the Republican candidate […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 9, 2016 Matt Drudge is the “kingmaker” of the 2016 election, according to Watergate relic Carl Bernstein whose reporting helped bring down President Richard Nixon for offenses that now seem quaint. The veteran journalist is no longer a kingmaker himself and singled out the Drudge Report, which regularly averaged more than […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says U.S. President-elect Donald Trump should remain committed to the nuclear deal signed between world powers and Tehran. During his campaign, Trump had pledged to “tear up” the nuclear agreement, which he called “one of the worst deals I’ve ever […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 9, 2016 Franklin Graham, who kept Christians engaged in the 2016 campaign with a 50-state prayer rally tour, called Donald Trump’s victory the “biggest political upset of our lifetime” and called on Americans to keep their new leaders in their prayers “every day.” “This election has been long, it’s been tough, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 9, 2016 Warplanes from Russia’s lone active aircraft carrier will soon begin airstrikes on the Syrian city of Aleppo, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Nov. 8. Jets from the Admiral Kuznetsov, which has been deployed to the eastern Mediterranean, will target rebel positions on the outskirts of Aleppo, where the rebels […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 8, 2016 Get used to it. President Donald Trump. It is a phrase that polite society in Washington, D.C. and in the most sophisticated world capitals could not conceive of, much less utter as even a hypothetical. Which is why he won his party’s nomination and the general election decisively against […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 7, 2016 Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe used an autopen to sign thousands of letters granting voting rights to felons, enough to put the swing state in Hillary Clinton’s column, a report said. “McAuliffe sought to allow all of Virginia’s estimated 200,000 felons to vote, but state courts said each individual felon’s […]
