by WorldTribune Staff, January 4, 2018 The United States and South Korea will not hold joint military exercises that were slated to be held while the Winter Olympic Games were underway in PyeongChang next month. U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-In agreed in a phone conversation on Jan. 4 to delay […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 4, 2018 The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said former FBI Director James Comey leaked classified information after he was fired by President Donald Trump. Sen. Charles Grassley, Iowa Republican, said Comey leaked four memos to Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman, who shared them with The New York Times. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 3, 2018 Congressional investigators say they have obtained FBI documents which contain evidence that laws were broken when Hillary Clinton and her top aides transmitted classified material through the former secretary of state’s private email server. The evidence includes passages in FBI documents stating the “sheer volume” of classified information that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Consulting my crystal snow globe reveals a blizzard of events, many of them unpredictable which await us in the New Year. And after 2017’s roller coaster and often bizarre political events, it’s difficult to believe that 2018 may hold many unexpected surprises. UN Secretary General […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 2, 2018 Advisers who were on board when President Barack Obama failed to back the “Green Revolution” protests in Iran in 2009 are criticizing President Donald Trump for supporting current anti-government demonstrations in the Islamic Republic. Trump tweeted on Dec. 29: “Many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 1, 2018 Media reports from Iran say at least a dozen people have been killed as protests entered a fifth consecutive day on Jan. 1. Video posted on social media showed anti-government protests spreading throughout a nation regarded as a regional strategic threat by pro-U.S. neighbors including Saudi Arabia and Israel. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 18, 2017 French President Emmanuel Macron should get off of U.S. President Donald Trump’s lap and stop raising the possibility of new sanctions on Iran over the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program, an Iranian official said. “To sustain its international credibility, France should not blindly follow the Americans … The French […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 1, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump has approved the sale of lethal arms to Ukraine, which continues to battle pro-Russian separatists in its eastern province. The move was supported by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, according to a report by The Washington Post. Though Russia is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty An Iranian woman raises her fist amid the smoke of tear gas at the University of Teheran during a protest on Dec. 30. / AFP Iranian authorities have blocked popular social-media websites as protesters attempted to gather for a fourth day of anti-government demonstrations that have […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 29, 2017 The 2 million people working for the U.S. federal government are doing very well for themselves on the taxpayers’ dime, a government watchdog group said. The $100,000 paycheck is the new “minimum wage” for federal employees, Illinois-based Open the Books nonprofit group said in its new report “Mapping the […]
