by WorldTribune Staff, March 3, 2020 The coronavirus is taking a heavy toll on high ranking government officials in Iran. As recently as last week, government officials in Teheran had downplayed the effects of the virus in the Islamic Republic. An activist group said that Wikipedia’s Farsi-language website appeared to be disrupted in Iran after […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2020 Israeli scientists will have the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus in a matter of weeks, Israeli Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis said. The vaccine being developed by the MIGAL biotech group could be ready in just three weeks, the Jerusalem Post reported on Feb. 27. “Congratulations to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 28, 2020 Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar, known as “Screaming Mary,” is the latest Iranian government official to be diagnosed with coronavirus, reports say. Earlier this week, Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi and member of parliament Mahmud Sadagi announced that they were infected with the disease. Ebtekar, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 27, 2020 The first U.S. clinical trial for a coronavirus treatment is underway at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) confirmed on Tuesday. The experimental therapy is biotech giant Gilead’s remdesivir, an antiviral with the potential to treat a host of pathogens […]
FPI / February 20, 2020 By Lee Cohen The Trump administration sees India as an important strategic ally in the region, particularly useful in pushing back against China’s Asian reach. While the past several years have yielded little significant progress in trade relations, the bilateral economic and defense relationships between the U.S. and India are […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 20, 2020 Is no one really above the law, as Democrats so often contend? Or is there indeed a two-tier system of justice favoring them? Consider the Logan Act, a federal law that prohibits unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments that are having a dispute with the United States. In 2017, Democrat […]
FPI / February 11, 2020 Iran’s Zafar satellite failed to enter orbit on Sunday and crashed in a rural area in the country’s southeast. It was the fourth failed satellite launch in a year for Iran. While major media reports focused on the failure to put the satellite into orbit, the U.S. State Department warned […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 7, 2020 Another top terrorist leader has been eliminated by U.S. forces, President Donald Trump said on Thursday. Trump said that U.S. forces at his direction conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that killed Qassim al-Rimi, the founder and leader of Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). “Under Rimi, AQAP […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2020 Japan has dispatched a helicopter destroyer to the Middle East to safeguard the nation’s oil supplies, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. The Takanami-class destroyer left its port near Tokyo on Feb. 2 and is tasked with protecting merchant ships and oil tankers passing through the Gulf of Oman. About […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 29, 2020 President Donald Trump on Tuesday aimed at reviving a Middle East peace process which went comatose under President Barack Obama. In issuing his “Deal of the Century” plan, Trump also took a decidedly different approach than his predecessor, James S. Robbins noted in a Jan. 28 analysis for USA […]
