Diplomacy helps ‘breadbasket of Europe’ get its harvest to market and counties in need

Diplomacy helps ‘breadbasket of Europe’ get its harvest to market and counties in need

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Some good news from war weary Ukraine! And actually even better news for many developing countries dependent on Ukrainian food and fertilizer shipments which faced Russian naval blockades until mid-Summer. Readers may remember that during July, a combination of United Nations and Turkish diplomacy with Russia led to […]

Only conservative at UN? S. Korean said world body must ‘defend freedom’ of each individual in all nations

Only conservative at UN? S. Korean said world body must ‘defend freedom’ of each individual in all nations

by WorldTribune Staff, September 23, 2022 It has been an eventful week at the United Nations for South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol, one of the few conservatives to win a presidency anywhere in the world this year. In a speech before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Yoon invoked the word “freedom” 18 times, according […]

Global investments rebound, but ‘unlikely to be sustained’

Global investments rebound, but ‘unlikely to be sustained’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Foreign investment flows worldwide have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels reaching nearly $1.6 trillion. That’s the good news. Yet as a new report warns, the war in Ukraine and widening global uncertainty make the prospects for expansion appear grim. That’s the verdict from the annual World Investment Report 2022, […]

Russia convenes UN Security Council; U.S. embassy removes links on 15 Ukraine biolabs

Russia convenes UN Security Council; U.S. embassy removes links on 15 Ukraine biolabs

by WorldTribune Staff, March 11, 2022 Russia informed the UN Security Council on Friday of “the military biological activities of the U.S. on the territory of Ukraine.” In a Security Council session convened at Russia’s request, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, claimed the U.S. Department of Defense had funded the biolabs in […]

Report: UN ‘orchestrating’ migrant invasion of U.S. southern border

Report: UN ‘orchestrating’ migrant invasion of U.S. southern border

by WorldTribune Staff, February 22, 2022 The United Nations is providing migrants with a roadmap on how to get to and stay in the United States, a report said. The UN is playing a lead role in “orchestrating” the movement of millions of migrants from around the world who make their way to the United […]

Appeasing the mullahs: Biden, South Korea help Iran pay its dues at the United Nations

Appeasing the mullahs: Biden, South Korea help Iran pay its dues at the United Nations

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2022 Sanctions imposed on Iran by the Trump administration were so devastating that the mullahs in Teheran were unable to pay dues owed to the United Nations. As a consequence, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism lost its voting rights at the UN. Was this not a victory […]

Report: UN giving debit cards to U.S.-bound migrants

Report: UN giving debit cards to U.S.-bound migrants

by WorldTribune Staff, January 19, 2022 The United Nations is giving migrants a boost as they trek toward the U.S. in the form of debit cards, a report said. Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, reported that migrants at a UN office in Tapachula, Mexico said that payments are […]

Team Biden sends $5 million to UN fund for overseas abortion

Team Biden sends $5 million to UN fund for overseas abortion

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, November 9, 2021 Team Biden is providing $5 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars to a United Nations program that provides abortion drugs and portable abortion devices to women across the world, a report said. The funds are going to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Supplies program, the U.S. State Department […]

Group appeals to UN Rights Commissioner on behalf of Jan. 6 prisoners

Group appeals to UN Rights Commissioner on behalf of Jan. 6 prisoners

by WorldTribune Staff, August 29, 2021 The Look Ahead America organization has appealed to the United Nations to intervene against the Biden Administration on behalf of Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol protest detainees. “Today I write in support of basic human rights for a specific group of Americans who have been disparately and inhumanely treated by […]

WHO official contradicts China, Silicon Valley: Covid ‘patient zero’ was likely Wuhan lab worker

WHO official contradicts China, Silicon Valley: Covid ‘patient zero’ was likely Wuhan lab worker

by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2021 Covid “patient zero” was “likely” a lab worker at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, one of the leading infectious diseases experts at the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Peter Embarek told Danish television that the likely source of the pandemic was someone infected by the horseshoe bat, which was […]