by WorldTribune Staff, May 12, 2019 As his nation’s economy continues to collapse under the weight of U.S. sanctions, Iran’s president is calling for unity among the Islamic Republic’s political factions and its citizens. “The pressures by enemies is a war unprecedented in the history of our Islamic revolution… but I do not despair and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2019 Ten days before the FBI used the Christopher Steele anti-Trump “dossier” to secure a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, a State Department official wrote in a memo that a key claim in the dossier was false, a report said. The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2019 Trade discussions between Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping’s top trade envoy and his U.S. counterparts in Washington ended on May 10 without an announcement of an agreement. New U.S. tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods went into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, after the two sides were […]
FPI / May 10, 2019 By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a sudden, unscheduled visit to Baghdad on May 7, 2019, meeting Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi and President Barham Salih. On May 5, 2019, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2019 The Kim Jong-Un regime, which has been reeling amid reports of purges after U.S. President Donald Trump walked out of the Hanoi Summit in late February, took another hit on May 9 when the U.S. announced it was, for the first time, seizing a North Korean cargo ship accused […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 8, 2019 Iranians converting to Christianity is “happening right before our eyes,” Iran’s intelligence minister said in a recent address to Shia preachers. Christianity is spreading in “parts” of Iran, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said, according to a May 4 report by Iranwire.com. “These converts are ordinary people whose jobs are […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2019 On May 8, Sen. Richard Burr, North Carolina Republican and chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr. to testify before the committee. The subject? Russian interference in the 2016 election. Burr’s move bewildered and outraged some of his fellow Republicans. “Apparently the Republican chair of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2019 The hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have entered the U.S. since September include more than 1 percent of the entire populations of Honduras and Guatemala, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “The current migration flows, especially of vulnerable families and children, from Central America through Mexico, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2019 “The Iranian regime has been working with Venezuela’s corrupt dictatorship to establish a safe haven for its terrorist proxies,” U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said in a May 7 address to the Council of the Americas. U.S. officials have long contended that Hizbullah, Iran’s terror proxy in Lebanon, has […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 8, 2019 Some observers, including supporters of President Donald Trump, hailed The New York Times “exclusive” story on May 3 about the bureau sending a “cloaked investigator” to a London meeting with Trump aide George Papadopoulos in September of 2016. In the aftermath of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, the facts, […]
