2026 Nobel Peace Prize winner accused of betraying Uyghur dissidents’ testimony to China

2026 Nobel Peace Prize winner accused of betraying Uyghur dissidents’ testimony to China

by WorldTribune Staff, October 13, 2026 Non-AI Real World News A United Nations whistleblower and a human rights group have accused 2026 Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay of betraying Uyghur dissidents in China by handing their names to the communist regime in Beijing. The whistleblower, former UN human rights officer Emma Reilly, alleges that […]

Greenland Arctic security deal: ‘Huge piece on the geopolitical chessboard’

Greenland Arctic security deal: ‘Huge piece on the geopolitical chessboard’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 12, 2026 The UN General Assembly offered the surprise setting for a wide-ranging but long elusive security deal for the United States and Denmark. Following over a year of tension, political rancor, and uncertainty, the United States, Denmark and Greenland agreed on a wide-ranging security deal through […]

Winner of Nobel Peace Prize an ‘unabashed hater of America’? President Trump, Israel unimpressed

Winner of Nobel Peace Prize an ‘unabashed hater of America’? President Trump, Israel unimpressed

by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News October 9, 2026 To the surprise of few, this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is not President J. Trump. A statement on Oct. 9 from the Alabama and Georgia-based Schoen Law Firm denounced the choice of Navi Pillay, a former United Nations official who accused Israel of […]

Overlooked UN speeches offered unreported truth and clarity

Overlooked UN speeches offered unreported truth and clarity

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 7, 2026 Beyond a handful of high profile and sometimes controversial speeches before the UN General Assembly, few addresses reached the high points of oratory or even the level of more than ho-hum pedantic palaver. Of the 193 speakers, most addresses fall into the category of checking […]

‘Trust deficit’: UN Assembly convenes Sept. 22 with maritime conflict an urgent priority

‘Trust deficit’: UN Assembly convenes Sept. 22 with maritime conflict an urgent priority

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 20, 2026 Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and potentates are convening in New York for the annual General Assembly of the United Nations. The upcoming 81st Assembly not only brings together its 193 member states to discuss and debate global conflict, but hopefully to try to resolve political […]

Baby it’s hot inside: Nuclear-powered France continues to shun AC

Baby it’s hot inside: Nuclear-powered France continues to shun AC

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 31, 2026 PARIS — France has had a bad Summer. First came the heatwaves, later there was the respite of World Cup Football amid cooler days, and then in the midst of the World Cup finals, France lost badly and the heat and wildfires returned anew. France’s […]

Rubio confronts Left’s ‘new wave’ of transnational terrorism, an ‘old evil’

Rubio confronts Left’s ‘new wave’ of transnational terrorism, an ‘old evil’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 23, 2026 Transnational terrorism, namely the global links and support of targeted violence, is hardly a new phenomenon. The September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States tragically underscored this grim reality. But what’s changed in the 25 years since September 11th has been the widening […]

Victory Day at Red Square droned into submission this year; Will Putin blink?

Victory Day at Red Square droned into submission this year; Will Putin blink?

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 3, 2026 There’s been a subtle but overlooked shift in the bloody war between Russia and Ukraine. Despite grueling causalities and losses on both sides in the fighting, the Kremlin leadership has been able to keep the worst effects of the conflict away from key populations in […]

Cuban sunset; CIA director to Havana in geopolitical melodrama

Cuban sunset; CIA director to Havana in geopolitical melodrama

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 26, 2026 Admittedly it looks a lot like a movie plot. A political thriller where the intelligence Director of the chief adversary state, comes into the nervous capital city and meets with regime leaders to tell them their days in power are numbered. Unless … Then a […]

Trump’s China trip: The three T’s, Iran and Jimmy Lai

Trump’s China trip: The three T’s, Iran and Jimmy Lai

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 20, 2026 Amid the spectacle and political pageantry in which Beijing so excels, President Donald Trump and his high-powered American business entourage visited China. The trip to the People’s Republic comes amid rising global tensions, continuing trade frictions and disruption of maritime commerce in the Middle East. […]

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