by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2018 Chinese officials and state-run media have been boasting about how China invented high-speed rail, mobile payment, e-commerce, and bike-sharing. In a December 2017 tweet, the Global Times referred to them as “China’s ‘four great new inventions’ in modern times.” Most recently, National People’s Congress (NPC) delegate Pony Ma, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2018 Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi won re-election in a landslide with 97.08 percent of valid votes cast, Egypt’s National Elections Authority (NEA) said on April 2. The NEA said that 24,254,152 citizens voted in the elections at home and abroad, out of nearly 59 million eligible voters, representing a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2018 All 44 House Democrats who hired a group of Pakistan-born IT aides suspected of gaining “unauthorized access” to congressional data apparently waived background checks on the aides, records show. Court records show the background checks, which are recommended for “shared employees,” would have revealed numerous red flags on Imran […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2018 France could become a “target of Turkey” if it follows through on a pledge to send troops to northern Syria in support of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Turkish official warned. French President Emmanuel Macron met an SDF delegation on March 29 and gave assurances of French […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 1, 2018 Why would Democrats single out House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes for electoral defeat? Nunes, the California Republican who revealed the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign paid for the bogus Trump dossier, says he is in the cross hairs as the DNC has turned to old reliables, Hollywood […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2018 CNN has referenced President John F. Kennedy’s adultery while in office as “legendary” while skewering Donald Trump for alleged affairs years before he became president. While tweeting to promote its program “American Dynasties: The Kennedys”, CNN referred to JFK’s “legendary love life.” “But was JFK’s love life really legendary? […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The political choreography was classic. The staging was epic. But the outcome remains unpredictable. North Korea’s reclusive leader Kim Jong-Un and his entourage secretly rolled into Beijing on a special armored train later to be greeted and then feted by the Supreme Leader of the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 1, 2018 A group of more than 1,000 mostly Honduran illegal aliens were being assisted by Mexico as they headed to the U.S. border to demand asylum on Easter Sunday, reports said. The Center for Immigration Studies reported that Mexican authorities allowed the illegals to drive north “with relative ease.” Researcher […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 1, 2018 A London-based American academic with ties to the Brexit movement and U.S. President Donald Trump said he was detained and interrogated by the FBI about his involvement in the Trump campaign. Ted Malloch, who said he was an informal and unpaid adviser on the Trump campaign, issued a statement […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 1, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump is taking on Amazon, a mega corporation that is widely revered and feared but is rarely attacked. Trump pointed out that the retail giant pays no federal income taxes and said it scams the Post Office out of billions of dollars. He also said The […]
