by WorldTribune Staff, October 27, 2016 The British economy has been quite the corker over the past three months considering the gloomy forecasts after the vote to leave the European Union. The UK economy grew by 0.5 percent in the three months after Brexit, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), more robust than […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct For more than two years Russian President Vladimir Putin has initiated an aggressive series of policy decisions aimed at advancing Russian interests and undermining the West, but recent events demonstrate the extent of Russian hostility. During separate visits to Europe, UK and Italian senior officials asked a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Joe Schaeffer Hillary Clinton’s strident defense of partial-birth abortion at Wednesday’s final presidential debate gives a needed boost to those in England and Wales who would choose to abort their pregnancy at the last moment if their unborn child had a defect as simple as a cleft palate, the CEO of Britain’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 20, 2016 The UK is keeping close watch on a Russian aircraft carrier group that is transiting near Britain’s eastern coast en route to the Mediterranean. “When these ships near our waters we will man-mark them every step of the way,” UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said in an e-mailed statement […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 19, 2016 While Brexit bettors saw “Remain” as the safest outcome to put their cash on, a majority of the actual wagers were for the underdog, and eventual winner, “Leave” campaign. UK oddsmakers are seeing a similar pattern with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Bookmaker William Hill says 71 percent of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 11, 2016 There is a “growing mistrust of the political class” in both Britain and the U.S., a key player in the successful Brexit vote said. “The little people have had enough – not just here, but in America too,” Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party (Ukip), wrote in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 6, 2016 The dire predictions by the anti-Brexit crowd that a vote to leave the European Union would quickly send Britain’s economy crashing into the dark ages is looking like, well, rubbish. In fact, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) outlook for the UK’s immediate post-Brexit economy is upbeat. The UK will […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 2, 2016 UK Prime Minister Theresa May and her “three Brexiteers” – Boris Johnson, Liam Fox and David Davis – have taken the first step toward implementing Britain’s exit from the European Union. May and the Brexiteers announced the “Great Repeal Bill” at the Oct. 2 Tory conference. The bill will […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 30, 2016 In a web post titled “the October surprise that will end Trump,” the United Nations News Center tweeted a call for “8 million Americans abroad” to register to vote and get their friends to register in an effort to “stomp Trump.” The tweet, published at 9:14 p.m. on Sept. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs German Protestant pastor, theologist, and cartographer Heinrich Bunting published his masterpiece Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (Travel Through Holy Scripture) In 1581. In the book, he included a special illustration/map titled “Die ganze Welt in einem Kleberblat/Welches ist der Stadt Hannover […]
