Summoned to Beijing? Kim Jong-Un visits China for 3rd time in 3 months

Summoned to Beijing? Kim Jong-Un visits China for 3rd time in 3 months

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, June 19, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on June 19 began a two-day visit to Beijing being viewed as a vain attempt by China’s maximum leader Xi Jinping to save face after the international spectacle of the historic June 12 Kim-Trump summit. In his third visit to China in as […]

Report: Burden of illegal immigration falls most heavily on urban blacks

Report: Burden of illegal immigration falls most heavily on urban blacks

by WorldTribune Staff, June 19, 2018 Working blacks in America’s urban centers are paying a heavy price for illegal immigration, a report said. Meanwhile the White House dismissed the uproar over its enforcement of existing immigration laws as a media-generated distraction. Media coverage of the ongoing congressional hearings following release of the Justice Department Inspector […]

Crimes on the rise in UK as arrests sharply plummet

Crimes on the rise in UK as arrests sharply plummet

by WorldTribune Staff, June 18, 2018 The UK’s depleted police force is unable to keep up with the rising crime rate as official police data show that just 9 percent of suspects in all crimes are caught and punished. The data show a reduction in arrests of more than 50 percent in the past five […]

Iran summit? Columnist says Trump-Khamenei sit-down would be instructive

Iran summit? Columnist says Trump-Khamenei sit-down would be instructive

by WorldTribune Staff, June 19, 2018 Though Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is nearly certain to reject it, U.S. President Donald Trump should nonetheless offer to meet with Iran’s supreme leader “as it would show the Iranian people and the world who the real peacemaker is,” a columnist wrote. “Such an offer isn’t as fanciful as it […]

Giving peace a chance: U.S., S. Korean forces salute, hit pause button on war games

Giving peace a chance: U.S., S. Korean forces salute, hit pause button on war games

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The Pentagon has reluctantly followed the orders of President Donald Trump and cancelled the next set of military exercises that U.S. and South Korea forces were to have staged jointly in August. U.S. Defense Department in Washington announced the decision simultaneously with South Korea’s ministry of national defense after […]

New D’Souza book: Obama ‘despised people like me’

New D’Souza book: Obama ‘despised people like me’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 18, 2018 In 2012, Dinesh D’Souza’s film “2016: Obama’s America”, became the second-highest-grossing political documentary in history. Following the film’s success, President Barack Obama responded by calling it “a deliberate distortion” of his “record and world view.” In his new book, “Death of a Nation”, D’Souza writes: “If you strike at […]

Strzok was moving to fast-track Russia investigation as he texted vow to ‘stop’ Trump

Strzok was moving to fast-track Russia investigation as he texted vow to ‘stop’ Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, June 18, 2018 FBI agent Peter Strzok moved to fast-track the Trump-Russia investigation amid the 2016 campaign at the same time he was sending anti-Trump text messages to his lover Lisa Page, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz noted in his report last week. Strzok was the FBI’s lead agent in […]

In walkup to secret peace plan, Trump seeks Gulf state investment in Gaza

In walkup to secret peace plan, Trump seeks Gulf state investment in Gaza

by WorldTribune Staff, June 18, 2018 The Trump administration is looking to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from Gulf states for projects in the Gaza Strip, a report said. Middle East specialists in Washington and London have been focused on still-secret details of the Trump administration’s peace plan for Israel and the […]

Laura Bush jumps on the anti-Trump, family separation bandwagon

Laura Bush jumps on the anti-Trump, family separation bandwagon

by WorldTribune Staff, June 18, 2018 Former first lady Laura Bush has joined the chorus of critics slamming what they say is the Trump administration’s policy of separating illegal alien children from their parents. In an op-ed for The Washington Post, the former first lady wrote: “I live in a border state. I appreciate the […]

Road from Singapore: The ticking nuclear countdown clock has stopped

Road from Singapore: The ticking nuclear countdown clock has stopped

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The road from Singapore becomes a longer process as substance and specifics must follow the highly stylistic Summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-Un. Nonetheless given the state of U.S./North Korean relations just six moths ago, the historic meeting between an […]