by WorldTribune Staff, September 30, 2018 Britain plans to send 800 troops to the Arctic in 2019 in an effort to stop Russia’s land grab in the region, the UK’s defense secretary said. Ministers are drawing up a new strategy to deploy hundreds of commandos to Norway to deal with the growing threat from Russia “in our […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 28, 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sept. 27 told the United Nations General Assembly that Iran maintains a secret nuclear program storage site. Netanyahu displayed maps and photographs of what he said is a “secret atomic warehouse” in the Turquzabad district of Teheran. The facility is used for “storing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 28, 2018 A Google executive confirmed to a congressional committee on Sept. 26 that the tech giant is developing a “search product” for China. Chief Privacy Officer Keith Enright confirmed the existence of the Dragonfly search engine, but denied knowledge of what the project entailed during testimony before the Senate Commerce, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON ― The road to peace and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula is so full of potholes and pitfalls, twists and turns, that it’s impossible to imagine where and how the process will end. Take President Donald Trump’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly a year after he was […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 28, 2018 Prior to the Sept. 27 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the major media had sculpted a narrative that Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford’s fear of flying was a result of the alleged encounter with Kavanaugh more than 30 years ago that left her with a fear of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 26, 2018 A former Australian ambassador at the forefront of the Trump campaign investigation and ex-CIA chief John Brennan have sidestepped questions on whether U.S. intelligence agencies spied on the Trump campaign in 2016. Australian Ambassador Alexander Downer was evasive during a recent BBC interview regarding suggestions made by Trump campaign […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 27, 2018 Is former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper playing fast and loose with the facts in his new book titled “Fact and Fears: Hard Truths From a Life in Intelligence”? In the book, Clapper is critical of reporting by The Washington Times on the 2003 invasion of Iraq that, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 27, 2018 After less than 30 minutes of the Sept. 27 Senate hearing on the allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats were already in the fundraising mode. Sen. Mazie Hirono, who recently said men in the United States need to “shut up and step up,” wrote to donors in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 27, 2018 The absence of due process amid “unprovable accusations” such as those levied against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh “puts an extraordinary burden on men, who would face a dual-track justice system in which they are always in the wrong, unless they can prove otherwise,” a columnist wrote. “If Democrats […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 27, 2018 A former girlfriend of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh called accusations that he mistreated her “offensive and absurd.” In an anonymous letter sent to Sen. Cory Gardner, Colorado Republican, a woman said her daughter claimed that when Kavanaugh and a group of associates left a Washington, D.C. bar one night in […]
