Behind the Mideast wildfire: Iran’s expanding oil sales

Behind the Mideast wildfire: Iran’s expanding oil sales

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, November 16, 2023 As violence explodes throughout the Middle East, from Gaza to Yemen, and Syria to Iraq, the political fingerprints of the Islamic Republic of Iran become increasingly obvious on this regional tableaux of terror. Long deemed a State Sponsor of Terrorism, Iran’s Islamic rulers have funded […]

Report: Exactly nine months after mass vaccinations, births in Singapore decreased dramatically

Report: Exactly nine months after mass vaccinations, births in Singapore decreased dramatically

by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2022 Singapore began the mass vaccination of women of childbearing age in June 2021. In March of 2022, exactly nine months later, Singapore reported a dramatic decrease in births. From March until June of this year, Singapore recorded about 1,000 fewer live births compared to 2021, a decline of 8.5 […]

Wrong again, Dr. Fauci: More Covid cases than ever in highly-vaxxed UK, Israel, Singapore

Wrong again, Dr. Fauci: More Covid cases than ever in highly-vaxxed UK, Israel, Singapore

by WorldTribune Staff, October 17, 2021 U.S. covid czar Anthony Fauci said on June 3: “If you have a very high percentage of people vaccinated, you’re not going to see a substantial blip” as in a big uptick in covid infections. Great Britain apparently didn’t get the memo. In the UK, 86 percent of all […]

U.S. prevails in key UN fight; Chinese official was poised to head WIPO

U.S. prevails in key UN fight; Chinese official was poised to head WIPO

by WorldTribune Staff, March 5, 2020 The United State was successful in preventing a Chinese official from being named director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). A Singaporean official defeated a candidate from China in a leadership contest for the UN’s intellectual property body, which was swept into a rift between Washington and Beijing […]

Target Singapore: Beijing aims relentless influence ops at Chinese in neighboring states

Target Singapore: Beijing aims relentless influence ops at Chinese in neighboring states

by WorldTribune Staff, July 29, 2019 Singapore is the only nation in Southeast Asia with a majority ethnic Chinese population. The island city-state is also a global financial center and plays a large role in regional diplomacy. So it should come as no surprise that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long had Singapore in […]

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 […]

The greatest show on earth? Now for the follow through

The greatest show on earth? Now for the follow through

Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Donald Kirk SINGAPORE — The summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un wound up in a victory of style and image over real substance. Trump, hours after his historic meeting with Kim, defended the vague final declaration in a show of bluff and bluster in which he sought to […]

Trump pitched Kim with Hollywood-produced video on N. Korea’s future

Trump pitched Kim with Hollywood-produced video on N. Korea’s future

by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump showed North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un a 4-minute video which featured “what could happen” in North Korea. The visual presentation impressed Kim, Trump said following the summit in Singapore on June 12. The emphasis on personal chemistry and public perception on a global scale was […]

Kim Jong-Un flies into Singapore on Xi Jinping’s Boeing 747

Kim Jong-Un flies into Singapore on Xi Jinping’s Boeing 747

by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un arrived in Singapore amid tight security at 2:36 p.m. on June 10 – on an Air China Boeing 747. According to Flightradar24, an Air China plane arrived in Pyongyang at 6:20 a.m. on June 10 and departed for Beijing two hours later. “But the […]

‘Rocket man tacos’? Summit is capitalist bonanza for Singapore’s food merchants

‘Rocket man tacos’? Summit is capitalist bonanza for Singapore’s food merchants

by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2018 Summit fever has hit Singapore’s eateries. Restaurants are cooking up summit-themed fare to capitalize on the historic meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on June 12. At Royal Plaza on Scotts, a five-star hotel restaurant, patrons can order the grilled Trump-Kim Burger, The […]