by WorldTribune Staff, April 28, 2026 Non-AI Real World News The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday announced it is leaving the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) after 60 years under the thumb of the global oil cartel. The UAE’s decision to leave OPEC is seen not just as a move towards increasing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 26, 2026 Non-AI Real World News President Donald Trump said he cancelled talks in Pakistan between U.S. and Iranian negotiators because of Iran’s current leadership problem. The problem: “Nobody knows who is in charge, including them,” Trump said in a post to Truth Social. “I just cancelled the trip of my […]
Special to WorldTribune, April 24, 2026 Real World News By Geostrategy-Direct, April 21, 2026 If the remnants of the Iranian regime are able to maintain control, they still have a large stockpile of missiles and attack drones and remain a significant threat to U.S. and allied forces in the Middle East, the director of the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 23, 2026 Non-AI Real World News President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” Iranian small boats that are deploying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. In a social media post Thursday morning, the president said the military is intensifying its mine-clearing efforts in the critical waterway. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 19, 2026 Non-AI Real World News The Iran regime, in its post-Khamenei phase, is apparently still intent on testing the word of U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump last week ordered the U.S. Navy to implement a targeted blockade of all Iranian ports on the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, rather […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 19, 2026 Non-AI Real World News What senior Democrats were saying back before the Iran War: “Iran’s nuclear program is galloping forward. It is enriching at higher levels, 20% even 60% in small cases, it’s using more advanced centrifuges. We’re now down, based on published reports, to a few months. If […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 16, 2026 Non-AI Real World News President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire Thursday and said he had invited the leaders of both nations to Washington for the “first meaningful” peace talks between the often-at-war foes in more than 40 years. Weakened by U.S. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 15, 2026 Non-AI Real World News How does a Chinese communist dictator cope with the rapid-fire social media output from his top enemy? China, which imports roughly 54% of its crude oil from the Middle East, is “very happy” with the U.S. naval blockade on Iran that has opened the Strait […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 14, 2026 Non-AI Real World News With his naval blockade of Iran’s ports locked in, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that new U.S.-Iran peace talks could take place within days in Pakistan. “You should stay there, really, because something could be happening over the next two days,” Trump told the New […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 13, 2026 Non-AI Real World News U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Monday began the naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz (Strait of America?) hours after President Donald Trump issued the orders. “The blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, […]
