Special to WorldTribune.com By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs LONDON — Incoming UK Prime Minister Theresa May on the evening of July 13, 2016, was asked by the Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II, to form a new Government, following the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron. Immediately after her audience with the Queen she announced the key […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 14, 2016 Israel is livid after France’s foreign minister reportedly met with leaders of Hizbullah’s “political wing” in politically-paralyzed Lebanon. Jean-Marc Ayrault met with a political delegation of Hizbullah in Lebanon on July 12, according to local media reports. “It’s clear that Foreign Minister Ayrault would not meet with the ‘political […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 14, 2016 Millions of people are facing famine in Yemen as importers are unable to have food shipped in after Western banks severed credit lines. Some $260 million is stuck in banks due to the civil war, trade and aid sources say. The United Nations said 10 of Yemen’s 22 governorates […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 14, 2016 Iran is poised to restore its nuclear program if world powers don’t live up to their end of the nuclear deal, President Hassan Rouhani said. Rouhani made the comments on state TV on July 13, the eve of the one-year anniversary of the deal (or Joint Comprehensive Plan of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk LONDON ― Nobody does politics like the Brits. Just as Hillary and the Trumpster were turning into bores in the U.S., along came an unpredictable change in the leadership of the United Kingdom. While one conservative takes over from another as prime minister, confusion reigns. For the benefit of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 13, 2016 Iran sent four machine gun-laden speed boats and a guided missile patrol ship to hassle a U.S. warship that was transiting the Strait of Hormuz on July 11, the U.S. Navy said. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) vessels came as close as 500 yards to the USS New […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct In the wake of the stunning UK vote to leave the European Union (EU), media attention is focused on the reaction from major European nations and the United States. As one of the Western alliance’s most prominent members, the UK also is in the forefront of the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 13, 2016 Donald Trump said Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should think about leaving the bench, calling the ornery 83-year-old “a disgrace to the court” for her recent comments slamming the GOP presidential candidate. “I think it’s highly inappropriate that a United States Supreme Court judge gets involved in a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The U.S. House on July 13 will vote on Republican legislation to undercut President Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran nearly a year after the deal was announced. The legislation would impose new sanctions on Iran over any sponsorship of terrorism or human rights violations, bar […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 13, 2016 President Barack Obama and his subordinates are, if nothing else, consistent. While the president referred to himself 45 times in a speech that started as a eulogy of Dallas police officers killed in last week’s attack, Attorney General Loretta Lynch refused to give responses 74 times in congressional testimony […]