Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — China’s President Xi Jinxing visited southern Africa both to build upon booming business relations and improve cozy political ties between the People’s Republic and key regional states. Beijing is already the African continent’s top trade partner with $222 billion in commerce; moreover China is weaving […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Chinese alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to “a war-monger … and a sadist who delights in the misery of the people,” said one critic of the award. But China defended the honor it bestowed on 91-year-old Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, saying that “ever since Robert Mugabe was sworn […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — In recent years there’s been a dearth of media coverage of Darfur’s humanitarian crisis. What had once been a focus for both diplomatic and high profile celebrity efforts to detail human rights abuses during more than a decade of inter-ethnic conflict in Sudan’s troubled western […]
Special to WorldTribune.com New age religion: The road to universal happiness passes through the creation of the Palestinian State. By Alexander Maistrovoy Right after taking office, Federica Mogherini, the new EU foreign minister, said she “would be happy if by the end of my term, a Palestinian state existed”. The solution to the acutely painful […]