by WorldTribune Staff, October 3, 2017 [Updated October 5] Thus far, authorities have been able to confirm officially that Stephen Paddock, the man responsible for the Las Vegas massacre, was a 64-year-old heavy gambler who owned a lot of guns but had no criminal record and was not known to police. As with the shooting […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 2, 2017 Xi Jinping has amassed immense power as China’s President, Chairman of the Central Military Commission and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. However billionaire dissident Guo Wengui claims on social media including YouTube from his new home in the United States that Xi has maintained his position by […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 1, 2017 Iran has cut fuel oil to Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey’s president said Israel’s Mossad was to blame for Kurdistan’s Sept. 25 vote for independence. Speaking from a secret location, the leader of Iran-backed Hizbullah said the vote was a “plot” conceived by the U.S. and Israel. Kurds flying Israeli […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 29, 2017 North Korea “will be the world’s first nuclear armed extortionist,” an analyst wrote. Foreign Minister Ri Yong-Ho publicly stated in front of the UN General Assembly that the Kim Jong-Un regime intends “to handsomely profit from their ability to enforce settlement of their alleged grievances against the world with […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — One of the silent tragedies among the conflicts raging in the Middle East, concerns the fate of the ancient and now persecuted Christian communities. Concerns for the forgotten and once vibrant Christian minorities especially in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon are often politely air brushed out […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 27, 2017 U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s plane was the target of a Taliban rocket attack that left five civilians wounded as Mattis arrived for a surprise visit in Afghanistan on Sept. 27. Mattis and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg had already left Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport at the time of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 26, 2017 Southern California should have its nuclear attack response plans in place, the Los Angeles-area Joint Regional Intelligence Center said in a bulletin issued last month. The bulletin, dated Aug. 16, was issued after North Korea’s July test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that some analysts said could reach the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2017 As Russia looks to take on a larger role in the North Korean nuclear standoff, the North’s official in charge of U.S. affairs traveled to Moscow on Sept. 25. Choe Son-Hui, director-general of the North American department at the North Korean Foreign Ministry planned to hold talks with Oleg […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 22, 2017 Revelations this week that the Obama administration obtained a FISA court order to wiretap former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort directly contradict what former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said twice in on-air interviews. During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in March, Clapper denied any such […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 21, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump on Sept. 21 signed an executive order that he said would “cut off sources of revenue” that fund North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. At a press conference, Trump said the new order enhances the Treasury Department’s authority to “target any individual or entity that conducts […]
