Unreported: Russia’s geostrategic breakthrough in the ‘Great Game’

Unreported: Russia’s geostrategic breakthrough in the ‘Great Game’

Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, June 16, 2023 Russia appears to have finally won secure access to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, the goal it has pursued vigorously since the 17th Century: the old Great Game may be over, and the new begun. Russia’s inchoate, […]

Kazakhstan: This is what a real insurrection looks like

Kazakhstan: This is what a real insurrection looks like

by WorldTribune Staff, January 7, 2022 The president of Kazakhstan issued a shoot-to-kill order after citizens protesting the government’s lifting its price cap on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) rioted in the streets of the nation’s largest city Almaty and reportedly began rounding up government security forces. Russia reportedly sent in some 2,500 troops at the […]

China salutes Kazakhstan’s ‘support’ for internment camps confining 1 million Muslims, including Kazakhs

China salutes Kazakhstan’s ‘support’ for internment camps confining 1 million Muslims, including Kazakhs

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty China has thanked Kazakhstan for supporting its crackdown on the restive far-west region of Xinjiang, where Beijing is accused of rights abuses against indigenous ethnic groups, including Kazakhs. China has been under criticism for operating internment camps for Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other mostly Muslim groups in […]

Kazakh man says Father one of millions in China’s reeducation camps in Xinjiang

Kazakh man says Father one of millions in China’s reeducation camps in Xinjiang

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty ALMATY — An ethnic Kazakh man from China, Omirbek Bekaly, says his 80-year-old father died in a so-called “reeducation camp” in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang. Bekaly told RFE/RL on October 22 that his father, Ibrahim, died a month ago but that he had only learned […]

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 […]

Azerbaijan, an enemy of Iran, to buy $5 billion in arms from Israel

Azerbaijan, an enemy of Iran, to buy $5 billion in arms from Israel

by WorldTribune Staff, December 14, 2016 Azerbaijan has signed a $5 billion deal to buy weapons and security equipment from Israel. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced the deal on Dec. 13 during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s state visit to Baku. The arms deal reportedly will include missile-defense systems. Aliyev’s comments came amid ongoing hostile […]

Urgent agenda item for Shanghai group summit: ‘Armed extremists’ in Afghanistan

Urgent agenda item for Shanghai group summit: ‘Armed extremists’ in Afghanistan

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russia says the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will discuss a “very tense situation” in Afghanistan when the grouping holds its summit in Uzbekistan this week. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said on June 22 that an estimated 60,000 “armed extremists” were fighting in Afghanistan, including 10,000 under […]

Venezuela gains seat on UN Human Rights Council: ‘Neither the U.S. nor the EU said a word’

Venezuela gains seat on UN Human Rights Council: ‘Neither the U.S. nor the EU said a word’

John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — First, the good news. The United States has been re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council along with Germany and Ireland. So too have been South Korea and Japan. Now fasten your seat belts for the rest of the eighteen new selections to the 47 member Geneva-based Council which […]