Most popular baby boy name in Belgian capital — Mohamed

Most popular baby boy name in Belgian capital — Mohamed

by WorldTribune Staff, January 13, 2022 Jean is a pretty popular name for a newborn boy in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. Last year, according to data published by the Belgian statistical office Statbel, 6,089 new Jeans were registered in the city. But it is not the most popular. That distinction goes to — Mohamed. […]

Coronavirus outcome: Bipartisan consensus emerges on decoupling from China

Coronavirus outcome: Bipartisan consensus emerges on decoupling from China

by WorldTribune Staff, May 3, 2020 Americans of all political stripes believe the U.S. relationship with China has to change amid the communist nation’s negligence in its response to the Wuhan coronavirus. A new McLaughlin & Associates poll found that 70 percent of Americans believe China “knowingly kept coronavirus data from international health professionals.” Only […]

New low-credibility impeachment witness: Anthony de Caluwe

New low-credibility impeachment witness: Anthony de Caluwe

FPI / January 20, 2020 The latest major media “bombshell” in the Trump-Ukraine saga involves reports that a European “Trump backer” was involved in a scheme to surveil former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and Democrat impeachment star witness Marie Yovanovitch. Media reports on Friday said that Robert Hyde, a Republican congressional candidate, named Anthony de […]

Belgium snubs Typhoon, chooses F-35s over Eurofighters

Belgium snubs Typhoon, chooses F-35s over Eurofighters

by WorldTribune Staff, October 29, 2018 The Belgian government has chosen to replace its aging fleet of F-16s with the U.S. F-35. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said on Oct. 25 that he’d chosen the F-35 over the Eurofighter Typhoon (developed by Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain) because it was cheaper. Costs for the F-35 […]

Apple’s Cook blasts data industrial complex: ‘We shouldn’t sugarcoat . . . this is surveillance’

Apple’s Cook blasts data industrial complex: ‘We shouldn’t sugarcoat . . . this is surveillance’

by WorldTribune Staff, October 24, 2018 In the “data industrial complex” of the 21st Century, “we see vividly, painfully how technology can harm, rather than help,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said, adding that platforms can “magnify our worst human tendencies… deepen divisions, incite violence and even undermine our shared sense or what is true or […]

Iranian diplomat extradited to Belgium to face charges in bomb-plot case

Iranian diplomat extradited to Belgium to face charges in bomb-plot case

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty An Iranian diplomat who is the suspected mastermind of an attack that allegedly was planned on Iranians living in exile in France has been extradited from Germany to Belgium, security officials said. Previously identified as Assadollah Assadi by AFP, the 46-year-old diplomat based in Austria was […]

’21st century’ tech tax: EU targets U.S. giants Facebook and Google

’21st century’ tech tax: EU targets U.S. giants Facebook and Google

by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2018 The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union (EU), announced on March 21 it was bringing its tax rules “into the 21st century” with the unveiling of a new tax on digital companies. Though the EU said the digital tax is not aimed at any country or […]

How neo-Stalinist EU is eliminating freedom, Christianity and civilization? Count the ways

How neo-Stalinist EU is eliminating freedom, Christianity and civilization? Count the ways

Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy International courts have been turned into leverage for destruction of national democracies by the totalitarian system. In late December, the European Commission announced punitive measures against Poland using the so-called “nuclear option”, Article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty. The reason was the decision of Warsaw to limit the power […]

Who’s who: Vote tally on UN resolution slamming U.S. on Jerusalem

Who’s who: Vote tally on UN resolution slamming U.S. on Jerusalem

Special to WorldTribune , December 21, 2017 Yes: 128 No: 9 Abstain: 35 Y  AFGHANISTAN Y  DOMINICA Y  LITHUANIA SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE Y  ALBANIA A  DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Y  LUXEMBOURG Y  SAUDI ARABIA Y  ALGERIA Y  ECUADOR Y  MADAGASCAR Y  SENEGAL Y  ANDORRA Y  EGYPT A  MALAWI Y  SERBIA Y  ANGOLA EL SALVADOR Y  MALAYSIA […]

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