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 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 7, 2017 Former President Barack Obama said at a year-end news conference in December that Russian meddling in the election came to a halt after he told Russian President Vladimir Putin to “cut it out.” NSA documents leaked by Reality Leigh Winner, however, contradict Obama’s claims as election-related hacking efforts continued […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Dennis Jamison, Fairfax Free Citizen, June 6, 2017 Today is the day that many around the world remember as D-Day, and many Americans will not easily forget those who lost their lives on the beaches of Normandy on that day. Those of the “greatest generation” who served their country in the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 6, 2017 One of the terrorists responsible for the London Bridge attack was known to authorities and had appeared in a 2016 BBC documentary titled “The Jihadis Next Door”. Khuram Shazad Butt, who neighbors say was the terrorist who wore the fake suicide vest during the vehicle and stabbing attack, was […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 5, 2017 Moscow had long attempted to derail Montenegro’s entrance into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), but those attempts came to a crashing halt on June 5 when the tiny Balkan nation became the alliance’s 29th member. With the former Yugoslav republic now in the fold, NATO controls the entire […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 5, 2017 Russia has conducted the first test of a hypersonic missile it claims can fly at 6 times the speed of sound and makes U.S. missile defense systems obsolete. Military analyst Vladimir Tuchkov told government-controlled news agency Sputnik: “It (the Zircon missile system) is expected to be added into Russia’s arsenal […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2017 UK Prime Minister Theresa May said the nation’s counterterrorism strategy will be reviewed and U.S. President Donald Trump said it’s time to ditch political correctness “and get down to the business of security” after the London Bridge terror attack. May said it is time to say “enough is enough” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2017 Technology firms are allowing Islamic extremism “the safe space it needs to breed” online and the international community must step in to regulate the Internet, UK Prime Minister Theresa May said after terrorists killed seven people and injured dozens more in the June 3 London Bridge terror attack. May […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2017 Researchers are now predicting that sea levels could rise nearly twice as much as previously thought by the year 2100 – with man being the culprit due to unabated emissions of carbon dioxide. Christopher Booker, a columnist for the UK’s Telegraph, contends that the prediction of a catastrophic rise […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The annual election to choose five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council produced both the expected and the near preposterous. The elections, actually selections by the 193 member General Assembly, saw no opposition for any of the two- year Council terms. Candidates were […]
