Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk U.S.-China relations are at their worst in years, and North and South Korean are not getting along either. In fact, relations between those two are at such a low ebb that two-way trade, once about several hundred million dollars a year, has almost ceased. Curiously, however, North Korean coal […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 25, 2016 While secretary of state, Hillary Clinton helped pave the way for a Clinton Foundation donor to receive $10 million for a project to help rebuild earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The project turned out to be a scam and the donor turned out to be a felon, according to a report by […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2016 Turkish tanks and special forces rolled across the border on Aug. 24 in an unprecedented operation to drive Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) out of the Syrian town of Jarabulus. Turkey’s army was backed by international coalition airstrikes in its effort to take the ISIL-controlled territory ahead […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2016 Leftist billionaire George Soros plans to add 10 million voters “by lowering barriers to voter registration,” according to leaked documents. “A 220-page guide detailing the plan was among more than 2,500 hacked Soros documents released by DC Leaks, which publishes documents from influential officials around the world,” the Washington Free Beacon reported […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2016 Washington, DC insiders are saying Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who has avoided meeting the press through most of the 2016 campaign, will attempt to “run out the clock”as scandals surrounding her candidacy continue to mount. The question is whether Clinton can pull off that well-known sports tactic until […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2016 China is considering the construction of a permanent manned radar station on the moon. The base would feature a radar antenna 50 meters high and special astronauts’ quarters as well, the Chinese government said. Beijing scientists said the radar would be capable of generating 1.4 gigabytes of data per […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2016 The U.S. continues to base some 5,000 military personnel in the UAE despite that country’s drifting away from the U.S. in the wake of last summer’s nuclear deal with Iran, a Congressional Research Service report said. UAE’s regional policy “is becoming increasingly assertive, in some cases not necessarily acting […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said it has summoned, detained, and warned some 450 administrators of social-media groups in recent weeks. The announcement on August 23 was carried on a website affiliated with the IRGC’s cyber arm, Gherdab, and said the unspecified number of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2016 Documents relating to the 1993 death of White House aide and Hillary Clinton friend Vince Foster are missing from the National Archives, according to a report. “FBI agents’ reports of interviews documenting that Hillary Clinton’s stinging humiliation of her friend and mentor Vince Foster in front of White House […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said in Havana his visit would open a new chapter in the Islamic Republic’s relations with Communist-ruled Cuba. “We will start a new chapter in the bilateral relations with Cuba on the basis of a big (business) delegation accompanying […]
