Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — A new dawn has come to Burma. At long last the political pariah state, also known as Myanmar, has ushered in a new civilian government in which Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has a strong if not formal hand at the democratic […]
Special to WorldTribune.com An agitated and red-faced Bill Clinton defended his record and his wife’s past statements when Black Lives Matter protesters interrupted a campaign event in Philadelphia on April 7. The protesters confronted the former president, saying the 1994 criminal justice reform bill he signed into law ended up hurting African-Americans. Clinton insisted that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The U.S. Congress is proposing emergency funding for Egypt and other Middle East nations in the “multiple billions” of dollars. Sen. Lindsey Graham, part of a congressional delegation that recently visited Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel, said he was “stunned at how things have deteriorated,” notably in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula bordering […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Panama Papers have impacted officials at the top of China’s hierarchy which has spent the past year purging top rivals of President Xi Jinping on charges of corruption. At least three of the seven people on the Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee, the Chinese Communist Party’s most powerful committee, including Xi […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Drudge-Select — April 7, 2016 c/o DrudgeReport.com JP Morgan CEO warns: ‘This is a tragedy we can see coming … Govt. will soon owe more money than entire economy produces… ‘Panama Papers’ reveal Clinton-Kremlin connection… Campaign built on mountain of secret cash… Japan to print additional big bills as more stash cash […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Donald Trump has succeeded in getting Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto’s attention. Spurred by Trump’s tough talk, which includes building a border wall and making Mexico pay for it, Nieto has dispatched a new ambassador and a crisis-communications expert to Washington to strengthen the “relations, promotion and image of our country” in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com WASHINGTON ― Here’s a question people here keep asking: Is North Korea a terrorist state? Forget about the missile shots. They’ve all landed in the sea and harmed no one. What about the nuclear tests? They dislocated some rocks deep underground but were otherwise harmless. So what does […]
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 […]
