China seeks ‘new chapter’ with resource-rich Zimbabwe: Different leader, same access

China seeks ‘new chapter’ with resource-rich Zimbabwe: Different leader, same access

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The setting was all about renewing an old friendship between a political pariah and the People’s Republic of China, its longtime patron. So in his first state visit outside of the African continent, Zimbabwe’s new president Emmerson Mnangagwa visited China to reaffirm and re-enforce the […]

Is Seoul in the loop on reported secret U.S., N. Korea talks? Blue House isn’t saying

Is Seoul in the loop on reported secret U.S., N. Korea talks? Blue House isn’t saying

by WorldTribune Staff, April 8, 2018 South Korea said reports of a secret U.S.-North Korea dialogue prior to President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un would be a “good sign,” but Seoul stopped short of saying it was a party to, or even aware of, the talks. CNN reported on April 7 […]

Liberal hate: Why conservative journalists, even never-Trumpers, struggle to earn a living

Liberal hate: Why conservative journalists, even never-Trumpers, struggle to earn a living

by WorldTribune Staff, April 9, 2018 The advertiser boycott of Laura Ingraham’s show on Fox News and the firing of a conservative “never-Trumper” columnist at The Atlantic show that, “yet again … liberalism is hate,” a columnist wrote. “It’s not made of hate, it doesn’t subsist on hate – it is hate,” Derek Hunter wrote […]

98 years after gun control, London faces murder epidemic, cracks down on knives

98 years after gun control, London faces murder epidemic, cracks down on knives

by WorldTribune Staff, April 9, 2018 Amid a huge spike in murders in his city, London Mayor Sadiq Khan is calling for heavy knife control and the increased use of a police technique that he had once referred to as “racist.” Khan tweeted on April 8: “No excuses; there is never a reason to carry […]

Trump administration calls out Russia and Iran after reported Syria chemical attack

Trump administration calls out Russia and Iran after reported Syria chemical attack

by WorldTribune Staff, April 8, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump warned on April 8 there would be a “big price to pay” for those backing the Assad regime in Syria following a reported chemical attack by Assad’s forces that killed at least 70 people. “Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in […]

Trump calls for end of ‘catch and release’ immigration policy; National Guard sent to border

Trump calls for end of ‘catch and release’ immigration policy; National Guard sent to border

by WorldTribune Staff, April 8, 2018 In his push to stem the tide of illegal immigration, U.S. President Donald Trump, who tweeted on April 7 that “we are sealing our Southern Border,” has called for an end to the policy of releasing illegals from detention while they await court hearings. Trump signed a memorandum on […]

DOJ records: U.S. under Obama helped fund Soros’ socialist agenda in Albania

DOJ records: U.S. under Obama helped fund Soros’ socialist agenda in Albania

APRIL 5, 2018 | INTEL–BRIEF A U.S. government watchdog group obtained records showing the Obama administration sent U.S. taxpayers’ funds to a group backed by billionaire George Soros, which used the money to fund left-wing political activities in Albania. The records obtained by Judicial Watch show Soros’s group worked with the country’s socialist government to […]

Mixed responses in South Korea to sentencing of conservative former president

Mixed responses in South Korea to sentencing of conservative former president

by WorldTribune Staff, April 8, 2018 A panel of three judges at the Seoul Central District Court sentenced former President Park Geun-Hye to 24 years in prison and levied a $16-million fine. The judges on April 6 found Park, 66, guilty of a dozen charges ranging from bribery to coercion, abuse of power and the […]

Pelosi: Democrats will rework Trump tax cuts if they take back the House

Pelosi: Democrats will rework Trump tax cuts if they take back the House

by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2018 At a town hall event that is part of her “Repeal the Trump Tax” tour, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on April 4 said Democrats will rework the president’s tax bill if the party retakes the House in the 2018 midterms. “Over 80 percent of the benefits go to […]

Sperm donors at elite Beijing hospital must have ‘sound ideological qualities’

Sperm donors at elite Beijing hospital must have ‘sound ideological qualities’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 8, 2018 The Chinese Communist Party made news recently by issuing “social credit” scores based on ideologically correct behavior by Chinese citizens whether party members or not. But the social engineers in Beijing are far from achieving Marxist-Leninist nirvana. Men between the ages of 20 to 45 who wish to donate […]