by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2016 Fed up with what socialism has wrought in their country, angry Venezuelans on Sept. 3 chased President Nicolas Maduro through the streets during what was supposed to be a routine political event. Maduro had traveled to Margarita Island off Venezuela’s northern coast to inaugurate a number of new public […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2016 China’s lack of a “red carpet” welcome to U.S. President Barack Obama when he arrived for the G20 summit was seen by some as a “deliberate snub.” While other leaders arriving in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou got the full diplomatic red carpet treatment, Obama used a smaller, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders President Enrique Peña Nieto’s invitation to the two U.S. candidates for president is one more instance of the growing role of Mexico in domestic American politics. There was a time, now long ago politically, when Mexican politicians preferred to ignore what they considered an embarrassment of the Mexican […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2016 Iran needs to keep the United States, still referred to as the “Great Satan”, as its enemy for the Islamic Republic to survive, an Iranian-American scholar wrote. Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, president of the International American Council and board member of Harvard International Review, penned the following commentary for Al […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2016 The British government warned its officials ahead of the G20 Summit not to fall into the same Chinese “honey trap” that stung Gordon Brown’s team in 2008. Prime Minister Theresa May’s G20 team and other western delegations have been alerted of the possibility of being targeted by Chinese spies […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russian President Vladimir Putin said he’d like to see Russia and the OPEC cartel reach a deal to bolster oil prices by freezing production, and he expects a dispute over Iran’s involvement can be resolved. “From the viewpoint of economic sense and logic, then it would […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2016 An organization funded by George Soros, a proponent of net neutrality, attempted to buy its way into negotiations that would impact Internet regulation, a leaked document shows. With net regulation as its main concern, the leftist billionaire’s Open Society Foundations funneled $66,290 to a nonprofit with the goal of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2016 Advocacy groups supported by the United Nations are condoning terrorism and promoting the “destruction of Israel,” a report said. “Bigots, anti-Semites, and terrorist advocates” within the UN are “spreading hatred and inciting violence,” according to a report issued by Human Rights Voices, a group that monitors bias at the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2016 White House spokesman Josh Earnest dismissed a report that the United States and world powers quietly agreed Iran could ignore restrictions on its uranium stockpile. The Institute for Science and International Security said the U.S. and its negotiating partners in last summer’s nuclear deal secretly agreed to allow Iran […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2016 Texas is among 13 states defending North Carolina’s law that determined people must use public restrooms based on their birth gender. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and attorney generals from Arkansas, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, West Virginia, Utah and the governors of Kentucky and Mississippi filed […]
