Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto At this year’s Grammy Awards, married singers Beyoncé and Jay Z performed a racy number onstage that included his fondling of her posterior — right before the prying eyes of a boisterous live audience and millions watching on television. Beyoncé sang “Drunk In Love” on a spinning chair in […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The President’s annual State of the Union address is primarily about domestic policy with foreign flourishes and interludes. Barack Obama, facing lackluster poll ratings, presented a pedantic and populist address with the usual laundry list of political promises. On the foreign front the speech focused on the draw down […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By East-Asia-Intel.com”, Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — Gen. O Kuk-Ryol, believed to have been behind production of counterfeit U.S. dollars and weapons of mass destruction, has re-emerged at the top of North Korea’s hierarchy following the execution of his long-time rival Jang Song-Thaek, sources and officials here said. “O has been spotted frequently in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah has closed off parts of Lebanon’s capital in an effort to stop repeated suicide bombings linked to Al Qaida. Arab sources said Hizbullah has closed streets around its headquarters in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh. The sources said Hizbullah troops have been deployed on several roads […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com India’s longtime low profile in East Asia is ending. The world’s largest democracy is being vigorously courted by virtually all the countries in the volatile and dynamic region. In the past decade, Vietnam, the Philippines and Burma have moved significantly closer to India. But in the last two […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs In the so-called “Geneva II” round of talks underway (in Montreux, Switzerland, not Geneva) during late January 2014, on the conflict in Syria, Syrian opposition chief Ahmed Jarba has kept demanding, in the name of the international community, the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto This year the annual March for Life in the nation’s capital, the largest anti-abortion rally in the world with about 600,000 attendees, marks a milestone: public opinion in America is changing as the pro-life movement gains more adherents. Since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in America in 1973, approximately […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com Nowhere does the phrase, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” apply more precisely than to Ahn Jung-Geun. Whether you call him a “terrorist,” as do the Japanese, or a heroic Korean revolutionary, as he is viewed in Korea and China, Ahn goes down in history for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Since becoming General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and commander-in-chief 14 months ago, President Xi Jinping has devoted much of his energy to China’s power projection around the globe. Compared to his predecessor Hu Jintao, who is noted for his dour and cautious style, Xi has proven […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has acknowledged that much of the P5+1 nuclear agreement with Iran remains secret. Officials said the White House has withheld many details of the interim nuclear agreement between Iran and Western powers. They said a detailed summary was issued to Congress with extracts released to the public. […]