by WorldTribune Staff, November 27, 2018 Leftist billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations announced on Nov. 26 that it would cease operations in Turkey. The foundation said “baseless claims” in the media “made it impossible” for it to carry out its work in Turkey. Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed Soros for allegedly […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 26, 2018 President Donald Trump warned the U.S. could “close the border permanently if need be” amid reports that several thousand additional migrants are headed toward the southern border. On Nov. 25, U.S. Customs and Border Protection fired tear gas to stop several hundred migrants already there who rushed the border […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 26, 2018 An FBI witness told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that none of the Russia collusion allegations made in the anti-Trump “dossier” authored by ex-British spy Christopher Steele and funded by Hillary Clinton had been proven. But, observers say, that has not stopped Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 26, 2018 Russian naval forces on Nov. 25 opened fire on and captured three Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea. The Ukranian navy reported that three of its sailors were wounded after two artillery boats were hit by the Russian strikes. Russia also detained 23 Ukrainian […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder was a heinous crime, but Israel’s rapprochement with the Gulf states is far more significant. Two events have taken place within the last few weeks. One is potentially of immense significance and the other is not. The first consists of the many indications that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 26, 2018 House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was shot in June 2017 by an anti-Trump supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders during a congressional baseball practice, credited President Donald Trump with helping to speed his recovery. In his new book, “Back in the Game”, the Louisiana Republican noted that the president and first […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 26, 2018 British Prime Minister Theresa May has rejected a Pakistani Christian woman’s asylum request after being advised that the move would “stoke tensions” among the UK’s three million Muslims. May refused to grant asylum to Asia Bibi, a Christian who has been hunted by Muslim lynch mobs since her death sentence […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct China’s modernization of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) over the past two decades has “resulted in a force capable of contesting U.S. operations in the region, presenting challenges to the U.S. military’s longstanding assumption of enjoying ground, air, maritime, and information dominance in a conflict in the post-Cold War era,” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 25, 2018 Addressing the annual Islamic Unity Conference in Teheran on Nov. 24, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on Muslims worldwide to unite against the Trump administration and the “fake regime” in Israel. Rouhani dropped his moderate posture and embraced the harsh rhetoric used by Iran’s leaders who regularly condemn Israel […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 25, 2018 The United Nations migration compact is “totally unacceptable” and “represents a risk to the whole world,” Hungary’s foreign minister said. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, in announcing his country will vote “no” on the UN agreement in Marrakesh in December, told the media that the “goal of the UN Global Compact […]
