by WorldTribune Staff, March 29, 2018 A deal between Saudi Arabia and Russia that could extend the two nations’ control over crude oil supplies for the next two decades has OPEC’s blessing. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman told Reuters earlier this week: “We are working to shift from a year-to-year agreement to a 10-20 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 28, 2018 A watchdog group has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking records relating to U.S. government funds that were reportedly used by George Soros-backed groups to support left-wing political activities in Romania and Colombia. Judicial Watch filed the suit against the U.S. State Department and the U.S. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 26, 2018 Switzerland has a high rate of gun ownership, a murder rate near zero, and no mass shootings. The country of 8.3 million people has about 2 million privately owned guns. In 2016, there were 47 homicides with firearms, according to a report by Business Insider. There has not been […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2018 The city council in Elizabeth City, North Carolina has voted to reject placing a 25-ton monument in a local park to honor Soviet World War II aviators who had trained in the area as part of a secret project. The Russian Defense Ministry had pledged to pay for the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2018 Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper provided misleading testimony to Congress regarding information he allegedly leaked to CNN on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, the House Intelligence Committee said. The committee’s final report, which it approved on March 22, found no evidence of Russian collusion […]
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 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 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 20, 2018 Facebook is the “real bad guy” in the Cambridge Analytica story about big data’s role in the election of Donald Trump, Britain’s The Guardian said in an op-ed. The op-ed said that “Cambridge Analytica shouldn’t act as a diversion from the real bad guy in this story: Facebook. It […]
