Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Morocco has been preparing for the delivery of an advanced French-origin naval frigate. The Royal Moroccan Navy has been overseeing sea trials of the FREMM multi-mission frigate from France’s DCNS. Last month, DCNS completed a third series of trials to test the ships’s combat system. “This third series of sea […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — NATO and Arab allies have agreed to high-level consultations on supplying heavy weapons to Syrian rebels. Diplomatic sources said 11 foreign ministers from Arab and NATO states would meet in Qatar on June 22 to determine aid to the Sunni revolt against Syrian President Bashar Assad. The sources said the […]
John J. Metzler PARIS — Just a year after the Socialist Party regained the presidency, the winner and unassuming new occupant of the Elysee Palace (White House) Francois Hollande, may have wished he was still in the political opposition. After all, it is easier after to critique than to govern, especially in a country battered […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Libya, racked by militia violence, has again been informed of a delay in Western energy projects. France’s Total announced a delay in energy offshore exploration in Libya, planned for this month. Executives said the delay, attributed to technical difficulties, could last into September. “There are issues here, and one of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Saudi Arabia has become a training center for foreign security forces. The Interior Ministry has overseen the training of hundreds of Western and Asian security forces in the state-owned Prince Nayef University for Security Sciences in Riyad. Officials said the training for officers from such countries as Austria, Britain, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Al Qaida was believed to have conducted a car bombing against a Western embassy in Libya. On April 23, Al Qaida Organization in the Islamic Maghreb is said to have detonated a car bomb in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. AQIM targeted the French embassy and two guards were injured […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Europe has served as a key recruitment ground for the Sunni revolt in Syria, a report said. The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation asserted that up to 600 Europeans have been recruited for the war against the regime of President Bashar Assad. In a report, the center said […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates has launched the world’s largest solar power plant. Shams-1 was designed to generate 100 megawatts of solar power, which comprised 10 percent of global renewable energy. The $600 million facility, inaugurated on March 17 in Abu Dhabi, generated power through mirrors or lenses as part […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Sunni rebels, restricted by Arab sponsors, have run low on ammunition amid the offensive by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Rebel sources said their leading supporters — Qatar and Saudi Arabia — have withheld supplies of ammunition and other military equipment in 2013. They said the two Gulf […]
Sol W. Sanders ZURICH – Europeans seem determined to ignore the depth of an approaching economic and political crisis which will end its longest period of prosperity and peace in history and threatens the very foundations of post-World War II democratic progression. In the fleshpots of Vienna and Zurich I have just visited, for […]