Special to WorldTribune.com Saudi King Salman, said to suffer from dementia, was hospitalized after “he went crazy” and attempted to injure himself, sources said. Arabic-language al-Ahd news agency reported on Oct. 8 that the 79-year-old Salman was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) section of King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh. Sources said Salman […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Among the 193 Presidential and Ministerial speeches being made during the UN General Assembly debate, most will present politically pedantic and often droning restatements of the obvious; that war, terrorism, poverty and the refugees crisis lapping at Europe’s shores and hinterland are among the absolute […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Sol W. Sanders President Abdul Fatah Sisi is rapidly resuming Egypt’s role as leader of the Arab world, nosing out U.S. Mideast leadership under President Barrack Obama’s “leading from behind”. Initially snubbed by Obama after his military coup last year against the Morsi Islamicist government, Sisi has moved away from his military […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The only reporter to be embedded with Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) says the West continues to underestimate the terror group and that “only Arabs” can stop them. Jurden Todenhofer, a former German member of parliament who became a war correspondent in 2000, spent 10 days embedded with ISIL jihadists […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey It doesn’t grab headlines like refugees and war, but growing global inequality poses the worst threat to economic and political stability. Just when you think things couldn’t get worse, they do. As chaos, civil war and anarchy spread across the Middle East; as Europe is subject to the most […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Backgrounder, Geostrategy-Direct.com Fearing an Israeli attack, Iran has bolstered its defenses around its nuclear sites. According to a report on Israel’s Channel 10 news, Teheran is particularly worried about an attack before a possible approval of the nuclear deal by the U.S. Congress this month and has raised its alert level […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Iran officials have criticized Saudi Arabia’s administration of the Haj pilgrimage to Mecca after a construction crane disaster killed 107 people on Sept. 11. The construction crane fell into the east side of the mosque, with its boom crashing through the roof. The crane belongs to a German crane company operated by […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy “The prospects are bright, but the road has twists and turns”. These are the words of Mao Zedong, but they could have belonged to Barack Obama. Unfortunately, “twists and turns” will be so numerous, that not many will manage to see the “bright prospects”. Obama believes that the agreement […]
Special to WorldTribune.com President Barack Obama may have won the political fight on the Iran nuclear deal, but he is losing big time on the public relations front, according to a new Pew Research Center poll. The poll found that just 21 percent of Americans support the deal. The Pew poll was conducted on the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Uwe Siemon-Netto Measuring a mere 137,000 square miles, Germany is not even as big as the U.S. state of Montana (147,000 sq. mi.). Germany is home to 81 million people, compared with Montana’s one million. Yet this year alone, Germany, a “very selfish country,” according to Fox News Host Bill O’Reilly, […]