Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The United Nations Security Council on September 11 voted to tighten sanctions on North Korea over the country’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test, imposing a ban on the country’s textile exports and setting a limit on imports of crude oil. It was the ninth sanctions […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2017 The FBI’s damage-control role discouraged the Justice Department from prosecuting former IRS official Lois Lerner in the tax agency’s targeting of conservative groups, a watchdog group said. The decision not to reopen the Lerner investigation “comes as no surprise considering that the FBI collaborated with the IRS and is […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2017 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sternly directed President Donald Trump’s team in a meeting at Trump Tower to “back off” on “this ‘drain the swamp’ talk,” former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told “60 Minutes”. “The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election,” Bannon told CBS […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2017 Thousands of same-day registrants, most from Massachusetts, illegally voted in the Nov. 8 election in New Hampshire and tipped the state in Hillary Clinton’s favor, voter integrity groups say, citing data released by New Hampshire officials. More than 6,500 people using out-of-state driver’s licenses registered to vote in New […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Will there be conflict on the Korean peninsula? Shall the long simmering tinderbox finally explode in a nuclear flash? Or shall everybody step back from the brink, take a deep breath and allow diplomacy to finally defuse this ticking time bomb in Korea? The answer […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 7, 2017 China’s air force on Sept. 5 carried out exercises to simulate its defense capabilities in case of a “surprise attack” coming over the sea, Chinese media reported. An anti-aircraft defense battalion held the exercises near the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea that separates China from […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 10, 2017 As the last pockets of Islamic State (ISIS) resistance are cleared in Iraq, a new threat to American troops is emerging. An Iranian Shi’ite militia, the Hizbullah Brigades, warned the United States that it must leave Iraq when ISIS is defeated or face a new war, Iran’s Fars news […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 10, 2017 In a year when North Korea has made shockingly rapid nuclear weapons progress, the word “prepper” is suddenly familiar in the South Korean lexicon. As Kim Jong-Un and U.S. President Donald Trump trade menacing threats and no one knows what they are really thinking, sophisticated and wealthy Koreans who […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 10, 2017 U.S.-backed fighters made major gains in an eastern Syria province, clearing Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists from areas east of the Euphrates River, a monitoring group reported. Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Deir Ezzor Military Council (DEMC) on Sept. 10 seized much of Deir Ezzor province’s northeast, according […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs What form of governance is “best”? What is most durable? What is most equitable? What produces the best economic results? These questions are usually posed — and the answers are usually imposed — as though a universally applicable model could be found by […]
