99 percent of coronavirus fatalities in Italy had other disease

99 percent of coronavirus fatalities in Italy had other disease

by WorldTribune Staff, March 19, 2020 Italy has surpassed China in the number of reported deaths from the coronavirus. A study by Italy’s national health authority found that more than 99 percent of the country’s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions. The Rome-based health authority said it examined medical records of […]

Israeli virologist urges world leaders to ‘calm public’ amid ‘unnecessary panic’

Israeli virologist urges world leaders to ‘calm public’ amid ‘unnecessary panic’

by WorldTribune Staff, March 19, 2020 People are being whipped into an “unnecessary panic” and the world’s leaders need to calm their citizens amid the coronavirus pandemic, a top Israeli virologist said. “I’ve been in this business for 30 years,” Professor Jihad Bishara said in an Israel Channel 12 interview. “I’ve been through MERS, SARS, […]

State Department uses encrypted app to reach Iranians directly on coronavirus

State Department uses encrypted app to reach Iranians directly on coronavirus

by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2020 The United States is encouraging Iranian citizens to use an encrypted messaging app, which was originally set up to report terror suspects, to detail in real time what is happening with the coronavirus crisis. The full scope of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in Iran remains a mystery amid a […]

NSC answers China’s coronavirus disinformation campaign with scathing indictment

NSC answers China’s coronavirus disinformation campaign with scathing indictment

by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2020 The communist government in Beijing should be focused on stopping the coronavirus rather than spreading false information about the origins of the Wuhan virus while at the same time kicking American journalists out of China, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) said on Wednesday. The statement from the NSC […]

U.S. oil leader calls moves by Russia, Saudis ‘direct attack’ on industry

U.S. oil leader calls moves by Russia, Saudis ‘direct attack’ on industry

by WorldTribune Staff, March 17, 2020 Saudi Arabia and Russia are flooding the market with oil in a “direct attack” on U.S. producers, oil tycoon Harold Hamm said. “They’re taking advantage of this coronavirus pandemic that’s sweeping the world to focus in on this industry and devastate it,” Hamm, founder and executive chairman at Oklahoma […]

Chinese tycoon who denounced Xi, CCP over handling of epidemic vanishes

Chinese tycoon who denounced Xi, CCP over handling of epidemic vanishes

by WorldTribune Staff, March 16, 2020 A real estate tycoon who publicly criticized Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership over the government’s handling of the Wuhan coronavirus has reportedly gone missing. Ren Zhiqiang, whose outspoken comments on social media had earned him the nickname “the cannon,” wrote in a recent essay that supreme leader Xi Jinping […]

Threats, ‘disinformation’ from China seen deflecting scrutiny of secret Wuhan lab

Threats, ‘disinformation’ from China seen deflecting scrutiny of secret Wuhan lab

by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2020 The outrageous claim by China’s Foreign Ministry that the U.S. Army sent the coronavirus to China is meant to deflect attention from the fact that the center of Beijing’s biological weapons program is based in Wuhan, which has the most cases of the virus, a report said. A Chinese […]

Russian oil power play targets U.S., but may backfire

Russian oil power play targets U.S., but may backfire

FPI / March 13, 2020 By Paul Crespo Russia and Saudi Arabia are now engaged in a full-scale oil price war where the ultimate target is the U.S. shale oil industry. Russia provoked this war days ago when it refused to follow OPEC+ plans to decrease production to maintain prices as the coronavirus saps demand. […]

Canada’s security threatened by ‘brazen’ influence operations by China, Russia

Canada’s security threatened by ‘brazen’ influence operations by China, Russia

by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2020 “The fundamental building blocks of Canada’s democracy” are being threatened by “clandestine and coercive” efforts, primarily from China and Russia, to influence politicians, students and the media, a parliamentary committee said on Thursday. “The threat is real, if often hidden,” the national security and intelligence committee of Canadian parliamentarians […]

Taiwan’s early decisive actions minimized coronavirus impact despite proximity to Wuhan

Taiwan’s early decisive actions minimized coronavirus impact despite proximity to Wuhan

by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2020 The island nation of Taiwan has just 47 confirmed cases of coronavirus despite its close proximity to China, Japan and South Korea, three countries with some of the world’s worst outbreaks of the Wuhan virus. As news of the new virus was breaking, Taiwan’s government introduced a travel ban […]