Special to WorldTribune.com Newly-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he will pull Canada’s jets out of the U.S.-led coalition’s bombing campaign against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Trudeau, who led the Liberal Party to victory in elections on Oct. 19 after a decade of Conservative Party rule, said he has notified U.S. President Barack […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders This column was written on Oct. 17. On Oct. 19, Justin Trudeau and the Liberals swept to power in Canada’s elections and Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced his resignation from the Conservatives. Americans were reminded this week of what a tried sand true friend it has in its […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Uwe Siemon-Netto The flood of Middle Eastern refugees into Europe exposes a fatal flaw of the current democratic system in the United States. The defect is the innate inability of the fast-paced American system to bring a long-drawn-out war against an unconventional enemy to a victorious conclusion. As Adelbert Weinstein, the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Emirates Airlines of Dubai will schedule the “longest non-stop flight” in the world beginning next year. The airline announced on Aug. 13 it will launch a daily flight in February from UAE to Panama City, Panama that will last 17 hours and 35 minutes. The longest non-stop flights currently connect Dallas to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Peru and Colombia have, largely unnoticed by the world’s media, continued to quietly work toward an integration of their political, economic, and strategic structures. This growing closeness — albeit without a publicly-stated end goal — has a military dimension. A significant new bloc — several years in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Argentina’s foreign minister is asking U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to clarify whether Washington’s nuclear deal with Iran includes removing from Interpol’s list an Iranian wanted in a major bombing in the South American country. In an open letter July 29, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Cuba raised its flag at its newly designated embassy in Washington, D.C. on July 20, officially restoring relations with the United States after 50 years. At the flag-raising ceremony, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said the U.S. must lift the trade embargo and return Guantanamo Bay to Cuba for the restoration of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct Senior drug enforcement officials in Washington and along the U.S. southwest border have spotted new technologies used by Mexican drug cartels to track their trackers in U.S. law. The concern grows out of the availability, capability and low cost of drones and unarmed aircraft systems (UAS), many […]
Special to WorldTribune.com As the United States moves closer to restoring full diplomatic ties to Cuba, some Spaniards believe the increased focus on the island nation may open the door for them to recover property that was seized when they fled the communist revolution. American citizens who lost assets in Cuba may also have an […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com Fights between reporters and editors are classic. Reporters don’t trust editors, and editors don’t trust reporters. That little observation is by way of commenting on what has to be about the worst reporter-editor rift in the history of journalism. That’s the betrayal of the Canadian correspondent who parachuted […]