Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — In its annual membership rotation, the UN General Assembly has chosen five new members; Belgium, Germany, Indonesia, Dominican Republic and South Africa, who will serve two-year stints on the powerful fifteen-member Security Council. The election, or more properly selection, is based both on geographical and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Joint Statement of President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong-Un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at the Singapore Summit. President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has a “one-time shot” to “do something great for his people,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on June 10. “And he has that opportunity, and he won’t have that opportunity again,” Trump said. The historic first-ever face-to-face meeting between the leaders of the U.S. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2018 Carter Page said the machinations employed by those targeting him in the Trump-Russia investigation are “becoming more understandable” following the indictment of James A. Wolfe, the intelligence official who leaked information to a reporter he was romantically involved with. The federal indictment issued last week notes that Wolfe unwittingly […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2018 The Israeli military, in an effort to block Hamas naval commandos from infiltrating Israeli territory via the sea, destroyed an underwater terror tunnel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on June 10. The IDF said the tunnel was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike on June 3. The IDF said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2018 Truck drivers in several Chinese provinces clogged national highways and parking lots to protest what they say are higher operating costs, decreasing wages and police harassment, reports said. The drivers, some of whom were shouting “overthrow the CPC,” called for the strike via social media with an anonymous statement […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump, asked by the media on June 9 about Russia’s annexation of Crimea, referred them to the previous administration. “You have to ask President Obama because he let Crimea get away, that was during his administration,” Trump said at a press conference in Canada. “Crimea was […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2018 President Donald Trump “understands the overwhelming power of modern mass communications” and “gets what the media itself has forgotten about themselves,” former White House chief adviser Steve Bannon said. Bannon told The New York Times that Trump’s embrace of conflict is “how he won. This is how he governs, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un arrived in Singapore amid tight security at 2:36 p.m. on June 10 – on an Air China Boeing 747. According to Flightradar24, an Air China plane arrived in Pyongyang at 6:20 a.m. on June 10 and departed for Beijing two hours later. “But the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2018 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed Austria’s populist government for its decision to shutter seven mosques and expel dozens of Turkish-funded imams. “These measures taken by the Austrian prime minister are, I fear, leading the world towards a war between the cross and the crescent,” Erdogan said, according to […]
