Report: Boasts by Maduro’s nephews led to his indictment

Report: Boasts by Maduro’s nephews led to his indictment

by WorldTribune Staff, March 31, 2020 A pair of boastful “narconephews” may ultimately bring down a socialist dictator who seemed all but impervious to the powerful domestic and foreign forces lined up against him. Nicolas Maduro has managed to remain in power despite economic and humanitarian catastrophe in Venezuela. The United States has imposed crippling […]

UK eyes re-evaluation of China ties amid Beijing’s coronavirus disinformation

UK eyes re-evaluation of China ties amid Beijing’s coronavirus disinformation

by WorldTribune Staff, March 30, 2020 When the coronavirus crisis is over, the British government should re-evaluate its relationship with China, including whether to continue to use Huawei for the UK’s 5G infrastructure, government officials said. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is said to be furious over China’s ongoing pandemic disinformation campaign. “There has to […]

Coronavirus as ‘disease of globalization’ inflicting elites on the less fortunate

Coronavirus as ‘disease of globalization’ inflicting elites on the less fortunate

by WorldTribune Staff, March 30, 2020 Coronavirus traces its origins to the “vectors of globalization,” a Yale University historian said. The Wuhan coronavirus pandemic is threatening the globalist worldview of free movement of people and free trade, Frank Snowden said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal The virus, Snowden said, “is emphatically a […]

State Dept. warns China-Russia-Iran propaganda on virus will distract ‘information space’

State Dept. warns China-Russia-Iran propaganda on virus will distract ‘information space’

by WorldTribune Staff, March 29, 2020 China, Russia and Iran have created an echo chamber which pushes false narratives about the origins of and China’s response to the coronavirus crisis, a U.S. State Department official said. “During the crisis, we’ve seen Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state disinformation and propaganda ecosystems all converge around some disinformation […]

Champs: 102-year-old woman, 101-year-old man survive coronavirus

Champs: 102-year-old woman, 101-year-old man survive coronavirus

by WorldTribune Staff, March 29, 2020 Two centenarians in Italy, born when the Spanish flu was sweeping the nation, have survived the Wuhan coronavirus, reports say. Italica Grondona, 102, recovered after spending more than 20 days in a Genoa hospital recovering from COVID-19, Dr. Vera Sicbaldi said. “We nicknamed her ‘Highlander’ — the immortal,” Sicbaldi […]

China slams U.S. over its strengthened ties with Taiwan

China slams U.S. over its strengthened ties with Taiwan

by WorldTribune Staff, March 29, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a law passed by Congress which aims to strengthen Taiwan’s alliances amid increased pressure from communist China. Even amid the coronavirus outbreak, China in recent weeks has reportedly stepped up its military drills around Taiwan. China has also blocked Taiwan from participating […]

Rosneft sells assets In Venezuela to Russian state company

Rosneft sells assets In Venezuela to Russian state company

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russia’s largest oil producer, Rosneft, has announced that it is halting operations in Venezuela and selling its assets there to a company fully owned by the Russian government. Rosneft said in a statement on March 28 that it “concluded an agreement with the company 100 percent […]

Highly-urbanized Taiwan emerging as coronavirus success story

Highly-urbanized Taiwan emerging as coronavirus success story

by WorldTribune Staff, March 27, 2020 The island nation of Taiwan, with a highly-urbanized population of 24 million, sits about 80 miles from mainland China. Some 1.25 million Taiwanese citizens either live or work on the mainland. In 2019, Taiwan welcomed almost 3 million Chinese visitors. The coronavirus pandemic, however, has not “inflicted the same […]

Long waits to pick up urns in Wuhan raise questions about official death toll

Long waits to pick up urns in Wuhan raise questions about official death toll

by WorldTribune Staff, March 27, 2020 Thousands of urns have reportedly been delivered to funeral homes in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Photos and information circulating on Chinese social media indicate there are long lines of people picking up cremated ashes. The reports call into question the Chinese communist government’s official figures […]

Coronavirus outbreak invites scrutiny of China’s dual-use covert bioweapons program

Coronavirus outbreak invites scrutiny of China’s dual-use covert bioweapons program

FPI / March 27, 2020 Analysis by Paul Crespo While this current novel coronavirus may not have been an engineered bioweapon, it should still focus attention on China’s very real, clandestine, offensive biowarfare research program. Wuhan, the epicenter of the original outbreak, is also the location of China’s first and still only known Bio Safety […]