by WorldTribune Staff, October 10, 2018 Google is likely to willfully comply with censorship demands to gain a foothold in countries with authoritarian governments, a leaked document says. “The Good Censor” document concludes that Google “will have to continue its move towards censorship if it wishes to appease national governments and continue its global expansion. It […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 12, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump’s comment that South Korea’s government of President Moon Jae-In would not move to lift sanctions on North Korea “without our approval” apparently did not sit well with some officials in Seoul. South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-Hwa had said that Seoul was reviewing the lifting […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 12, 2018 “The Left’s angry mob has Republicans energized,” Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Ronna McDaniel tweeted on Oct. 10. The RNC reported a 500 percent surge in donations to the party during the height of the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation battle. A huge increase in volunteers have also been […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 12, 2018 A Turkish judge on Oct. 12 ordered American pastor Andrew Brunson be released and sentenced to time served. Brunson was arrested in October 2016 and was detained for 18 months before being charged by the Turkish government with being connected to outlawed Kurdish groups and opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 11, 2018 President Tsai Ing-wen on Oct. 10 said her government will boost defense spending and vowed that Taiwan will not “submit or yield” to China’s ongoing pressure to assert sovereignty over the self-ruled island. “At this time, China’s intimidation and diplomatic pressure not only hurts relations between both sides, but […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 11, 2018 The Chinese government on Oct. 7 confirmed that Interpol President Meng Hongwei had been arrested in China on charges of bribery and corruption. Authorities in Beijing also said that Meng, a Chinese national, had resigned from his position at Interpol. According to a report by Geostrategy-Direct.com, Meng had left […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 11, 2018 A professor at the University of North Carolina has nominated Dr. Christine Blasey Ford to receive the university’s distinguished alumna award. Jennifer Ho, a professor in UNC’s Department of English and Comparative Literature, said in a letter nominating Ford that “What Dr. Blasey Ford did on September 27, 2018 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 11, 2018 Illegal aliens in the Los Angeles metro area are having more children than total U.S. births in 14 states and the District of Columbia, according to a report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). There are an estimated 28,000 so-called “anchor babies” born every year in the Los […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 11, 2018 North Korea is sitting on mineral resources that are worth 15 times more than the value of South Korea’s, the South’s state-run Korea Resources Corporation (KRC) reported on Oct. 11. Pyongyang has signed 40 investment agreements with foreign companies in regard to its minerals – 90 percent of them […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 11, 2018 A government watchdog group, in a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department of Defense, is seeking information on the contract between the DoD and an FBI informant who was used by the Obama administration to spy on the Trump campaign. Judicial Watch filed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) […]
