Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler It’s summertime and the living is easy, as the old song goes. And vacations both domestic and international should be surging despite dark pandemic clouds still shrouding parts of the world. But last year’s collapse in international tourism, seeing a decline by 74 percent in 2020, has still […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2020 Communist China, which has a long track record of violating laws of the sea, now has a seat on a tribunal which settles international disputes on the sea. Duan Jielong was selected by the United Nations to serve a nine-year term as a judge to the International Tribunal for […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 26, 2020 The U.S. called out members of the UN Security Council who “find themselves standing with terrorists” after the Council rejected Washington’s push to trigger a return of all UN sanctions on Iran. Indonesian UN Ambassador Dian Triansyah Djani, who currently holds the rotating presidency on the Council, said in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 10, 2020 The United Nations is “giving a pass to terrorists” after it concluded that the U.S. drone strike which killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was “unlawful.” Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on July 9 that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 3, 2020 Following a vote on Tuesday at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, the communist government in China declared victory in its enactment of a new security law which essentially ends Hong Kong’s autonomy and basic freedoms for its citizens. In the vote, 53 countries backed China’s new […]
FPI / June 28, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com Ironically, a fight over freedom of the press, sparked by North Korean defectors sending balloons with leaflets to their former homeland, has brought both Koreas once again to the brink of war. Both the North and South Korean governments have threatened the defectors in the South who have sought […]
FPI / May 28, 2020 By Judicial Watch The United Nations is capitalizing on the coronavirus to promote sexual and reproductive health services — including abortion — by classifying them as “essential” healthcare in pandemic recovery efforts. Why should American taxpayers care? Because the United States is funding the endeavor and, in fact, is the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 20, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to permanently cut off funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) and revoke U.S. membership if the UN organization doesn’t make changes meant to curb what he called its pro-China bias. In a letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Trump said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2020 Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping made a personal plea to the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) to delay the release of critical information regarding the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, German intelligence reported. Xi spoke with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Jan. 21 to press the WHO to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 26, 2020 The United States said it will not participate in the World Health Organization (WHO) global initiative to speed the development, production and distribution of coronavirus drugs and vaccines. “There will be no U.S. official participation”, a spokesman for the U.S. mission in Geneva told Reuters. “We look forward to […]
