by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2018 Major media reports on U.S. President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods, such as a CNN report Friday, warned they would lead to a “global trade war.” The New York Times reported that China responded with “cautious anger.” Downplayed was the fact that China on average imposes […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2018 President Donald Trump first threatened to veto and then signed Congress’s massive spending bill that appropriates funds for only a fraction of the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump tweeted on March 23: “I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2018 Moscow continues to deny any culpability in the poisoning in Britain of a former Russian intelligence officer and his daughter. Sergei Skripal, who betrayed numerous Russian agents to Britain, and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, continue to fight for their lives after the March 4 poisoning in the southern English […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2018 Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team’s top attorney, Andrew Weissmann, are carrying “troubling baggage,” having been prominently involved in two significant scandals in the FBI’s history, a report said. The “integrity” of Mueller’s “investigation and of the investigators must be a paramount priority in our criminal justice system […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2018 German Chancellor Angela Merkel on March 21 said the country’s taking in of more than 1 million migrants was a “humanitarian exception” that “must not be repeated.” In the first major speech of her fourth term, Merkel told the Bundestag that her government pledges to cap the number of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2018 Joe Biden would “go down fast and hard” in a physical confrontation, President Donald Trump said in response to the former vice president’s insistence that he would have “beat the hell” out of Trump if the two had been schoolmates. “Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2018 Amid a torrent of mainstream media criticism, the White House on March 21 defended President Donald Trump’s decision to make a congratulatory call to Russian President Vladimir Putin after his recent re-election victory. In a pair of tweets on his call with Putin, Trump said U.S. news organizations “wanted […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2018 The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union (EU), announced on March 21 it was bringing its tax rules “into the 21st century” with the unveiling of a new tax on digital companies. Though the EU said the digital tax is not aimed at any country or […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2018 China dispatched its lone operational aircraft carrier to the Taiwan Strait, entering waters that are part of the island’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ), Taiwan’s defense minister said. Defense Minister Yen Teh-fa told Taiwan’s parliament that the Liaoning entered the narrow strait that separates China from Taiwan on March […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2018 Saudi Arabia is removing all traces of the Muslim Brotherhood from its school curricula and will fire any education personnel who sympathize with the group, the kingdom’s education minister said. The move is part of the education ministry’s plan to “combat extremist ideologies by reviewing school curricula and books […]