Times247.com Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Britain has warned against travel to Egypt, particularly the turbulent Sinai Peninsula. The Foreign Office has issued a travel warning against several Middle East states, including Egypt and Turkey. The government department cited the danger of attack and abduction by anti-government elements along major highways, particularly in Sinai. “Due to [...]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Despite the persistent economic headwinds which are expected to slow economic expansion this year, “growth in the Asia and the Pacific area remains better than in any other region; continuing as an anchor of stability and a new growth pole for the world economy.” That’s the guardedly optimistic prognosis [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — In an unprecedented move, the European Union has directed air strikes against Somalia. The EU said a range of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft attacked the Somali coast in search of pirates. The EU said the May 15 operation, in which no casualties were reported, took place in the Somali region [...]
Times247.com Greece abandoned a nine-day hunt for a government on Tuesday and called a new election that threatens to hasten the nation’s slide towards bankruptcy and a future outside the euro zone. … A second election is expected to produce a similarly divided parliament, with opponents of the EU/IMF rescue consolidating their gains and raising [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Vladimir Putin was sworn in Monday to be Russian president for a six-year term following a controversial election. The first thing Putin wanted was a guarantee from the U.S. that its missile defense system would not be used against Russia. That puts the Obama administration in a [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has been urged to ship anti-aircraft batteries to South Sudan. A former senior U.S. official said South Sudan required urgent assistance to repel the daily air strikes by Sudan. Former U.S. special envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios said U.S. air defense batteries to Juba would force the [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — King Mohammed has begun vetoing decisions by Morocco’s new Islamist government. The king has taken measures to restrict the authority of the Islamist government of Prime Minister Abdul Ilah Benkirane. In the latest move, Mohammed fired the president of the nation’s broadcast authority, which sought to ban advertisements for gambling [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Despite international naval patrols, Somali piracy continues in the Gulf region. Somali pirates hijacked an oil tanker in the Arabian Sea 630 kilometers from the coast of Oman on May 10. The Liberian-flagged Smyrni, operated by a Greek company, was carrying 135,000 tons of oil and said to have [...]
Lev Navrozov It seems that quite recently things looked so promising in Russia. In my recent columns, I happily noticed that there are quite a few burgeoning signs of freedom in Russia that were impossible even to think of in my time: freedom of travel, freedom to leave the country, or start your own business. [...]
