Special to WorldTribune.com Drudge-Select — April 25, 2016 c/o DrudgeReport.com Foreign ‘dirty bomb’ responders train in Nevada… Dutch newspaper cartoon depicts Erdogan as ape crushing free speech… China mocks ‘outdated Apple’… Tech giant may be shrinking… Driven up wall by Trump, Mexico looks to recast image in USA… Ambassador ‘filled With adrenaline’… Austrian government in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com About 2,000 Saudi-led coalition troops launched an offensive that drove Al Qaida jihadists from their Yemeni stronghold on April 24. More than 800 Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) fighters were killed and the remainder fled as the force of Yemeni and Emirati troops advanced on the port city of Mukalla, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A large bipartisan majority in the U.S. Senate is calling on President Barack Obama to immediately sign an agreement on a new defense package that includes an increase in aid to Israel. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democrat Sen. Chris Coons penned a letter to Obama that was signed by 51 Republican […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A resourceful Yazidi girl managed to escape her Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) captors after slipping sleeping pills into their tea, a report said. The 12-year-old girl and her 17-year-old aunt escaped after being held for fourth months in Tel Afar, Iraq by the terror group, the Daily Mail reported […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Drudge-Select — April 24, 2016 c/o DrudgeReport.com Cannes simulates ISIL attack ahead of film fest…200 extras, fake car bombs… London mayor slams ‘ridiculous and weird’ Obama… White House set to release restricted portions of 9/11 inquiry Journalist who criticized Erdogan held in Turkey…
Special to WorldTribune.com Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan needs to chill out and grow a thicker skin when it comes to criticism against him, the European Union’s Donald Tusk said. “The line between criticism, insult and defamation is very thin and relative. The moment politicians begin to decide which is which can mean the end of the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com President Barack Obama’s “intrusion” in the UK’s decision on leaving the European Union reeks of hypocrisy, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said. In a column published on April 22, Dershowitz noted “how outraged the same President Obama was when the prime minister of a friendly country, Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke his mind about […]
Special to WorldTribune.com China is looking to build nuclear power platforms to “sail” to remote areas and provide a stable power supply for its ongoing military and construction activities in the South China Sea, a report said. China Shipbuilding Industry Corp is currently designing and building the platforms, according to a report by the Global […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Saudi Arabia has taken out a $10 billion loan from several major banks to plug a growing budget deficit caused by falling crude oil prices. The five-year loan is Saudi Arabia’s first international debt issuance in 25 years, Financial Times reported on April 20. Participating lenders include U.S. banks JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The provocative, sometimes raunchy music mega-star Prince was also deeply spiritual and reportedly opposed gay marriage, according to a Washington Post commentary piece. One of the “steamiest pop culture figures in the past quarter-century was a conservative Christian. Religious and spiritual themes ran through a huge amount of his work,” Post religion […]
