by WorldTribune Staff, March 5, 2020 As part of heightened awareness on the borders in the U.S.’s fight against the coronavirus, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials said they have since January caught 328 Chinese who had attempted to cross the Mexico border into the United States. The Chinese citizens were “apprehended” and sent back […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 5, 2020 The United State was successful in preventing a Chinese official from being named director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). A Singaporean official defeated a candidate from China in a leadership contest for the UN’s intellectual property body, which was swept into a rift between Washington and Beijing […]
FPI / March 4, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com A large number of states in the U.S. have contracts with two Chinese firms — Lenovo and Lexmark — which are required to report data and information they receive to the communist government in Beijing, security analysts say. The use of Chinese equipment makes the states and other entities […]
FPI / February 21, 2020 By Paul Crespo Shortly after Turkey suffered its worst single-day military casualties at the hands of Russian-backed Syrian government forces in Idlib last week, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan publicly stated he was opening Turkey’s borders to Syrian refugees fleeing into Europe. “We opened the doors. The flow of migrants may […]
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 An investigation is underway into allegations that Joe Biden threatened to withhold U.S. funding to Ukraine if the nation’s leaders did not fire their top prosecutor, Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigations has confirmed. The investigation was launched in response to a court order, after the ousted prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, […]
FPI / February 28, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com China is intent on doubling the size of its nuclear arsenal by the end of this decade, U.S. military officials say. “These initiatives increase China’s ability to project power further from their mainland and support their aspirations to impose China’s will throughout the Indo-Pacific region,” Adm. Charles A. Richard, […]
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 […]
