by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2020 Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping made a personal plea to the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) to delay the release of critical information regarding the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, German intelligence reported. Xi spoke with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Jan. 21 to press the WHO to […]
Special to WorldTribune Robert Morton, April 28, 1999 The vacuum of power in the post-Soviet western world has been filled by three men whose past should have disqualified them. Bill Clinton, Britain’s Tony Blair and Germany’s Gerhard Schroeder once marched against using military force to stop communist aggression. The Cold War ended and the communists […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy A century ago, in 1918-20, Europe sunk into the “red terror”. Inspired by the Russian revolution, people with red armbands, red flags and red stars were determined to celebrate the “new bright future”. At factories, the power was transferred to factory committees, banks were nationalized, churches were turned into […]
FPI / February 4, 2020 Though U.S. President Donald Trump has criticized European countries for not contributing enough to NATO’s budget, in the Spring of 2020 the United States will signal its resolve to defend its NATO allies by deploying the largest number of troops to Europe since the Cold War. Resembling the NATO REFORGER […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2019 Climate change protests against cars in general and stricter CO2 emission limits imposed by the European Union are pushing Germany’s vital auto industry to the “brink of collapse,” Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess said. “The current campaign against individual mobility and thus against conventional cars is reaching existence-threatening proportions,” Diess […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Falling trade between Germany and Iran indicate that stinging U.S. sanctions are affecting the commercial preferences of countries when deciding on whether to conduct business with Teheran. German exports to Iran fell by 48 percent to $759 million in the first six months of this year, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 8, 2019 Germany and the United Kingdom, two of the three European signatories of the 2015 nuclear accord, lashed out at Iran after the Islamic Republic announced it would breach the deal. Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, announced on July 7 that Iran would begin enriching […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2019 The Trump administration has directed U.S. embassies abroad not to fly the LGBT rainbow flag on official flagpole stands. The directive comes as the LGBT community celebrates Pride Month. U.S. embassies in Israel, Germany, Brazil and Latvia were denied their requests for permission from the State Department to fly […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Trump rightly commemorated the sacrifices of American soldiers on the 75th anniversary of D-Day. On June 6, 1944, U.S. forces, along with British and Canadian soldiers, launched an historic invasion of Nazi-occupied Western Europe on the beaches of Normandy, France. Their bravery and valor will live on forever, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 27, 2019 “A new Europe is born,” Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini declared after his Lega Nord (League) Party surged to victory in Italy’s European Union vote. “I am proud that the League is participating in this new European renaissance,” Salvini said. The League’s triumph was one of many for nationalists […]