Special to WorldTribune.com By Christopher Sparks, January 31, 2018 Hamas senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh was designated as a global terrorist by the United States on Jan. 31. The U.S. State Department said in a press release it has designated Haniyeh, as well as the jihadist groups Harakat al-Sabireen, Liwa al Thawra and Harakat Sawa’d […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 31, 2018 An emotional North Korean defector, who walked thousands of miles on crutches through Southeast Asia to escape his homeland, kept the crutches to remember his ordeal and waved them aloft as President Donald Trump hailed him during the State of the Union address on Jan. 30. Ji Seong-Ho was […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2018 Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s exit from the FBI will be followed by “a cleanup at the Bureau of his cronies,” reports said. McCabe is taking “terminal leave,” Fox News reported on Jan. 29, meaning he will be taking vacation until reaching his planned retirement in “a matter of weeks.” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2018 As President Donald Trump prepared to give a State of the Union Address with a strong emphasis on immigration, the GOP sought to remind the nation that past “tough talk” on the issue that was warmly received – by Democrats. In a post on GOP.com, Republicans said that, in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 29, 2018 Iran was able to contain recent anti-government protests in part by cutting off access to the Telegram messaging app that protesters used to communicate. Now, the Teheran regime is seeking full local control of the web in the Islamic Republic via the creation of a so-called “halal” or “permissible” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2018 While thousands of employees of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees marched in the Gaza Strip to protest U.S. cuts in aid to the agency, an envoy for President Donald Trump said it is Hamas that is stifling “Gaza’s chance for success.” The Trump administration earlier this month suspended […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 29, 2018 Around the same time opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released after being detained by police, the Kremlin accused the U.S. of attempting to meddle in Russia’s upcoming presidential election. Navalny’s lawyer told the press on Jan. 28 that the opposition leader was released without being charged but will have […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 29, 2018 North Korea on Jan. 29 called off a joint cultural event with South Korea that was to celebrate the upcoming Winter Olympic Games. Pyongyang cited what it claimed to be “biased” media reports about the scheduled Feb. 4 event at Mount Kumgang in North Korea, the South Korean Yonhap […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 29, 2018 “The girl of Enghelab Street,” whose stand in Teheran last month against wearing the mandatory head scarf went viral on social media, has been released after being held in detention, a human rights lawyer said. The woman, whose name has not been made public, has been released by Iranian […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2018 The withdrawal of the last main challenger to Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi all but sews up a certain landslide victory for the incumbent. Rights lawyer Khaled Ali withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 24, a day after former military chief of staff Sami Anan, considered Sisi’s top […]
