Special to WorldTribune.com The Swiss government negotiated a secret deal with Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to avoid terror attacks in Switzerland, according to a report. The arrangement was made following the hijacking by Palestinian groups of two Swissair flights in 1970, according to the Swiss newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung (NZZ). Full details of the deal […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct One month after the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris took 130 lives, two incidents barely reported in the U.S. media, one in Paris and one in Geneva, signal new terrorism threats in the heart of Europe. After the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, French law enforcement and security […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Excerpted from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty About 100 fighter jets and 4,000 personnel from the United States and eight European nations began an Arctic training exercise in the Nordic nations on May 25. The exercise, based in the north of Norway, Sweden and Finland, aims to test cooperation among Arctic […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Parris H. Chang Concerned that Taiwan’s security and sovereignty is being gradually negotiated away to Mainland China, a group of civic organizations has announced a new national strategy to promote Taiwan’s neutrality. Formally launched on Oct. 25, the campaign is called the “Peace and Neutrality for Taiwan Alliance” and is being […]
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 BAGHDAD — Iraq has awarded hundreds of millions of dollars worth of contracts to companies from China and Switzerland. Industry sources said the Oil Ministry awarded $348 million worth of contracts to two firms — from China and one from Switzerland. They said the firms were assigned to support the oil fields […]
John J. Metzler NEW YORK — A dragonfly-like aircraft, large but seemingly fragile, slow but silent, and powered by sunlight, has flown safely across America. The amazing and indeed epic coast to coast journey by the Swiss engineered and piloted Solar Impulse plane concluded in New York having set a number of aeronautical records for […]
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 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Saudi Crown Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz has died, setting the stage for possible power struggles in the Gulf Arab kingdom. Nayef, appointed crown prince less than a year ago, died from heart and other ailments in Switzerland on June 16. The 79-year-old had been sidelined throughout 2012 in […]