Special to WorldTribune.com By Allan Wall Venezuela, in South America, is a beautiful country and rich in natural resources, possessing the world’s largest known oil reserves. For many years it was a stable country, but the past several decades have brought it to disaster. The economy is in shambles, with a drastic shortage of consumer […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 8, 2017 The Left is engaged in full-fledged spiritual warfare against the United States and its duly-elected commander in chief, contends Pastor Carl Gallups, one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal Christian supporters. “We are in the throes of an attempted takeover of this nation,” Gallups says. “The constitutional republic, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 6, 2017 Those who voted for Brexit are “predominantly elderly” people who were “obsessed by the worry of 80 million Turks coming over and being in their village,” the leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats said. Vince Cable, writing in the Mail on Sunday, blasted Brexit supporters over age 65 as “self-declared martyrs” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2017 A deal proposed by Egypt to unify Hamas and the Palestinian Authority’s Fatah party has been accepted by Hamas, according to reports. Under the deal proposed by Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi, the PA would be committed to ending harsh actions it has taken against Hamas in Gaza since […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 8, 2017 Saudi Arabia is prepared to work with the Trump administration to contain “Iranian actions and expansionist policies,” Riyadh’s new ambassador to the United States said. Prince Khaled bin Salman said he has seen “huge improvement in Saudi-U.S. relations under this administration.” President Donald Trump “is determined to work with […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump’s diplomatic team has been operating in overdrive as it tries to ensure new UN sanctions against North Korea will be enforced while confronting Russia over allegations of its meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The U.S. on Aug. 7 moved quickly to ensure new UN […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2017 National Security Council (NSC) holdovers from the Obama administration have driven a wedge between national security adviser H.R. McMaster and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon that culminated in McMaster’s recent firing of two top aides who were seen as close to Bannon, analysts say. McMaster sacked NSC intelligence […]
The Belt and Road Initiative is the vanguard for Beijing’s reach for global power. It may not work, given all the imponderables of a project on this scale, not to mention conflicting interests with nations along its route. But at least the Chinese are showing the kind of social energy necessary to achieve great things. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2017 Lebanon’s army on Aug. 7 said it had captured several strategic hilltops from Islamic State (ISIS) at the border with Syria. In taking several hills between the frontier towns of Ras Baalbek and Arsal, the army destroyed ISIS fortifications and killed several jihadists, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported. Hassan […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 6, 2017 Yet another American president is enlisting China to put the squeeze on North Korea. And China has again agreed to play along with what the Trump Administration earlier branded as a failed exercise. Therefore on Aug. 6, Beijing called on the Kim Jong-Un regime to stop its missile and […]
