From beautiful Geneva campus, UN Rights Council presides over far-flung, horrific abuses

From beautiful Geneva campus, UN Rights Council presides over far-flung, horrific abuses

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 20, 2023 Over the past year human rights abuses in places ranging from Afghanistan to Ukraine, and to Myanmar/Burma, Xinjiang China, the Middle East, to name a few sordid cases, have splashed across the headlines. Just in the past month, ethnic cleansing of Christian Armenians from Muslim […]

Fifth Fleet demands release of U.S.-bound oil tanker hijacked by Iran’s navy

Fifth Fleet demands release of U.S.-bound oil tanker hijacked by Iran’s navy

by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News April 27, 2023 Iran’s navy has seized a U.S.-bound oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, the U.S. Navy reported. America’s own maritime military service made the revelation Thursday, identifying the ship as the Marshall Islands-flagged Advantage Sweet. It is the fifth commercial vessel unlawfully seized by Iran […]

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 […]

Kuwait expels 15 Iran diplomats after investigation of terror cells

Kuwait expels 15 Iran diplomats after investigation of terror cells

by WorldTribune Staff, July 21, 2017 Kuwait on July 20 expelled 15 Iranian diplomats in what was seen as a follow-up to the conviction last month of 21 people accused of belonging to a terror cell linked to Teheran. A senior Kuwaiti official told AFP that the 15 diplomats had been asked to leave the country. Kuwait’s […]

Arab states give Qatar deadline and list of demands: Shutter Al Jazeera …

Arab states give Qatar deadline and list of demands: Shutter Al Jazeera …

by WorldTribune Staff, June 23, 2017 Four Arab states which have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar have delivered a list of demands the Gulf state must comply with in order to end the current crisis. The demands from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain delivered to Qatar include shutting down Al Jazeera […]

Another ban on visas from Muslim majority nations . . . in Kuwait

Another ban on visas from Muslim majority nations . . . in Kuwait

by WorldTribune Staff, February 3, 2017 Citizens from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan have been banned from obtaining visas to enter Kuwait. In a move that mirrored U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban on seven Muslim-majority nations, passport holders from those five countries will not be allowed to enter Kuwait and have been told […]

NASA using Mars exploration tech in search for water in Kuwait desert

NASA using Mars exploration tech in search for water in Kuwait desert

by WorldTribune Staff, November 20, 2016 Technology developed to explore the subsurface of Mars is being used by a NASA-led team to search for water deep beneath the Kuwait desert. “An international team led by research scientist Essam Heggy of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., recently traveled to northern Kuwait to map the depth […]

Kuwait to supply Egypt with 2 million barrels of oil per month

Kuwait to supply Egypt with 2 million barrels of oil per month

by WorldTribune Staff, November 16, 2016 Kuwait has agreed to supply Egypt with up to two million barrels of crude oil per month at the global price, a report said. The Kuwait deal will fill the gap in Egypt’s oil needs after Saudi Aramco suspended its shipments to Cairo in October. Kuwait’s cabinet on Nov. […]

Egypt cut energy deal with Kuwaiti firm amid strains with Saudis

Egypt cut energy deal with Kuwaiti firm amid strains with Saudis

by WorldTribune Staff, November 3, 2016 Egypt, looking elsewhere to fill its energy needs amid a row with Saudi Arabia, signed an agreement with a Kuwaiti firm that will give Cairo a 20 percent stake in an Iraqi oil field. Kuwait Energy Plc signed an agreement with Egypt General Petroleum Corp. (EGPC) for a 20 […]

Three royals sentenced in Kuwait for insulting Emir on instant messaging

Three royals sentenced in Kuwait for insulting Emir on instant messaging

by WorldTribune Staff, May 31, 2016 Three members of Kuwait’s ruling family were each sentenced to five years in prison for insulting the country’s emir on an internet messaging service. The men were sentenced on May 30 for posts on Whatsapp that were determined to be insulting to Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, local […]