Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty An Iranian woman raises her fist amid the smoke of tear gas at the University of Teheran during a protest on Dec. 30. / AFP Iranian authorities have blocked popular social-media websites as protesters attempted to gather for a fourth day of anti-government demonstrations that have […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 29, 2017 China was caught secretly transferring oil to North Korean vessels at sea, a report said. South Korea seized the Hong Kong-flagged Lighthouse Winmore that was accused of transferring 600 tons of refined petroleum to a North Korean ship in international waters in the East China Sea on Oct. 19, a move […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 28, 2017 The ruling Chinese Communist Party is consolidating its centralized power over China by transferring control of the 1.5 million-strong paramilitary police force under the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The People’s Armed Police will be under the direct control of the Central Military Commission (CMC), a body headed by President […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 27, 2017 Overlooked in the major media’s focus on the year-long Trump-Russia collusion story is the toll taken by Congressional hearings and inspector general probes. “Eight high ranking Department of Justice and FBI officials have been removed, reassigned or are rumored to be leaving,” according to widely-respected investigative journalist and former […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 27, 2017 A year-and-a-half into the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign and no “collusion” with Russia has been found. So, the question is “are the investigators after the truth, or are they after Trump?” Pat Buchanan asked in a Dec. 26 column. “Set aside the Trump-Putin conspiracy theory momentarily, and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 26, 2017 Asian economies will continue to advance in 2018 and in the coming decades will top Europe’s leaders and, eventually, the United States, a report said. The Center for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) in London predicts that China will overtake the U.S. as the world’s largest economy by 2032. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 25, 2017 At least 10,000 civilians were killed in the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989, according to files that were only recently declassified. The documents from the UK National Archives in London were declassified in October and obtained by the news site HK01. Included in the files were telegrams […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 24, 2017 The Islamization of Christmas in 2017 has become evident throughout Europe, an analyst said. Multicultural political and religious elites “are bending over backwards to secularize Christmas, ostensibly to ensure that Muslims will not be offended by the Christian festival,” wrote Soeren Kern, a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2017 The United States on Dec. 21 threatened to pull its funding from the United Nations after the UN General Assembly passed a resolution condemning President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “The United States will remember this day in which it was singled out […]
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