by WorldTribune Staff, August 20, 2017 A Muslim cleric who left his post in the Spanish town of Ripoll in June is suspected of radicalizing the terrorists who carried out the Barcelona attack, authorities in Spain said. Authorities said they searched the home of the imam, Abdelbaki Es Satty, on Aug. 19 as part of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 20, 2017 A recent report from the liberal Harvard Kennedy School and Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy noted that 80 percent of news stories in the first 100 days of the Trump administration were critical of the president. For CNN, it was 93 percent negative. “By the time […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 18, 2017 A California Republican congressman said the information he received during a three-hour meeting with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London this week would have “an earth-shattering political impact.” Assange “reaffirmed his aggressive denial that the Russians had anything to do with the hacking of the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The death toll from two suspected militant attacks in Spain on August 17 rose to 14 people as the hunt continued for the main culprit in one of the attacks — the driver of a van who rammed into crowds in the center of Barcelona. Thirteen […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2017 Russia’s FSB security service on Aug. 14 said it foiled a plot by Islamic State (ISIS) to carry out mass-casualty bombings in Moscow shopping centers, public transportation and other soft targets. According to Russian media reports, two Russian-born ISIS recruits were among four suspects arrested during an FSB raid […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2017 Jewish officials expressed outrage after a hotel in eastern Switzerland posted a notice instructing “Jewish guests” to take a shower before using the facility’s swimming pool. According to an Aug. 14 report by AFP, the notice from the Paradies apartment hotel in the Alpine village of Arosa read: “To […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2017 India’s sale to Vietnam of a short-range, supersonic anti-ship missile has opened a new conflict in an already tense situation with China, an analyst said. Vietnam will receive the BrahMos which is considered one of the most effective and lethal anti-ship missiles in the world, with speeds reaching Mach […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 11, 2017 More than 50 people drowned and many more were missing after smugglers threw 300 African migrants into the Arabian Sea off of Yemen. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) told AFP that human traffickers forced more than 120 Somali and Ethiopian migrants into the rough seas off Yemen on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 11, 2017 After the U.S. slapped new sanctions on Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for 755 out of a total of about 1,200 diplomatic positions at the U.S. Embassy and consulates in Russia to be cut. President Donald Trump’s response to Putin was uncharacteristic for the striped-pants set if not […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 6, 2017 Those who voted for Brexit are “predominantly elderly” people who were “obsessed by the worry of 80 million Turks coming over and being in their village,” the leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats said. Vince Cable, writing in the Mail on Sunday, blasted Brexit supporters over age 65 as “self-declared martyrs” […]