by WorldTribune Staff, June 27, 2024 Contract With Our Readers After nearly four years of frustration with the Biden Administration, Saudi Arabia sent a delegation of top officials to Beijing on Tuesday to discuss stronger relations and increased military coordination with communist China, reports say. Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman traveled to Beijing […]
FPI / June 26, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct Should the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the deployment of nuclear weapons be restricted? Absolutely, most would agree. “Our position has been publicly clear for a very long time: We don’t think that autonomous systems should be getting near any decision to launch a nuclear weapon,” Tarun Chhabra, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 25, 2024 Contract With Our Readers WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday was released from a British prison and flew to a remote Pacific island to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge as part of a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department, according to court documents. A letter from Justice […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 23, 2024 Contract With Our Readers North Korean special forces were involved in the 1980 “Gwangju incident” in South Korea, a former head of South Korea’s intelligence agency has now confirmed. “For the first time, it is revealed that the Agency for National Security Planning (NSP) (now the National Intelligence Service) […]
FPI / June 19, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct In the run-up to the June 18 meeting in Pyongyang between North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the two countries had exchanged more than two dozen high-level government, parliamentary, and other delegations since July 2023, including 18 this year. South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 17, 2024 Contract With Our Readers At the end of January in 2020, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus met Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping in Beijing and commended the country’s efforts to control the Covid outbreak. Tedros also praised the Chinese Communist Party’s top leadership for its “openness to sharing information” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 14, 2024 Contract With Our Readers The Thursday headline in Corriere Della Sera, Italy’s largest newspaper, reads: “Long pauses, eyes closed, weak voice: Biden and new doubts about health, at the G7”. Conversations about Joe Biden’s declining health were rampant in foreign and domestic media and on social media after video […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2024 Contract With Our Readers President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday dissolved France’s National Assembly after Marine Le Pen’s conservative National Rally party trounced Macron’s forces in European Union elections that according to exit polls maintained the momentum of anti-immigration and populist forces in other key EU states including Germany and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2024 Contract With Our Readers The son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef says those engaging in anti-Israel protests on college campuses are “misguided,” “misinformed,” and are only “making the situation worse.” “They found an angry cause, and this is very dangerous to advocate on behalf of something they don’t […]
FPI / June 5, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has called for the establishment of a massive industrial center in the Gulf that could produce practically anything for the global market. “We are ready to establish with the Arab side an industry and investment cooperation forum,” Xi said, adding it would “continue […]