by WorldTribune Staff, June 11, 2017 Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reported by Syrian media to have been killed on June 10 in a U.S.-lead coalition artillery strike. Syrian state television said the terror group’s leader, the world’s most wanted terrorist, was killed in an artillery strike on the group’s headquarters in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2017 The California Senate last week passed a bill that would grant every resident, whether legal or not, eligibility for health care coverage with no premium, no co-payment and no deductible, a report said. While the Republican effort in D.C. to replace the broken Obamacare system has bogged down, California […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2017 Former FBI Director James Comey “did himself no favors” with his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, said a consultant who attended meetings at the White House yesterday during the heavily-publicized hearings. The same could be said of Comey’s riveting admission about a New York Times […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2017 Iraq’s self-governing Kurdish region announced on June 7 it will hold a referendum on independence, a move opposed by the nation’s ruling Shi’ite coalition. “I am pleased to announce that the date for the independence referendum has been set for Monday, Sept. 25, 2017,” Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2017 North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has put an estimate of alleged damages by man-made climate change ahead of the state’s economic health, the state’s Republicans said after Cooper announced he will sign on to the Paris Climate Agreement. “Most North Carolinians believe it’s past time to reverse course on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2017 Another celebrity is saying that her personal protection is more important than that of peons who aren’t rich & famous. Kim Kardashian demands that her personal security detail be able to carry guns, but believes it should be extremely hard, if not impossible, for the average American to get […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2017 The attacks by Islamic State (ISIS) that killed 17 people in Teheran on June 7 were “backed by U.S. clients,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said, pointing the finger squarely at Saudi Arabia. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) vowed revenge for the attacks at parliament and Ayatollah […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2017 What is China doing to check the weapons of mass destruction programs of its top communist ally? Nations that are “concerned” by North Korea’s continuous missile tests should refrain from taking “any action that could escalate regional tensions,” China’s Foreign Ministry said on June 8. Those “concerned countries” should […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2017 Former FBI Director James Comey confirmed on June 8 that, while he was heading up the FBI, President Donald Trump was not under investigation. Comey also stated for the first time that Obama administration Attorney General Loretta Lynch asked him to downplay the Hillary Clinton email scandal as a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2017 Germany has been plagued by a wave of crimes where knives were the weapon of choice. The surge in stabbings coincides with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to allow some two million migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East into Germany, a report said. More than 1,600 knife-related crimes […]