by WorldTribune Staff, May 30, 2017 At the Group of 7 (G7) summit, agreeing to disagree on shared convictions so strongly-held that they approach religious fervor is not an option. It is simply not cool. Therefore, when U.S. President Donald Trump broke ranks on the Paris Agreement climate accord over the weekend at G7, sophisticates […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 28, 2017 Establishing so-called “back channels” with foreign governments is not the big deal the major media is making it out to be, Trump administration officials and analysts say. Asked about reports that U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner had attempted to set up a secret channel of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 25, 2017 “Furious” UK investigators have stopped sharing intelligence gathered from the Manchester bombing with the United States after U.S. law enforcement sources leaked key details and photographs from the investigation to domestic journalists. Just as angry was U.S. President Donald Trump. In a presidential statement issued while Trump was at […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 25, 2017 Hamid Jan Kakar has run out of patience with politically correct defenses of Islam in the aftermath of the Manchester bombing. Kakar, in an interview with Independent Journal Review, said he is sick of people saying “terrorism doesn’t have anything to do with Islam.” The defenders of Islam must […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 24, 2017 South Korea’s newly-elected President Moon Jae-In dispatched a delegation to the Vatican on May 23 on a mission to seek support from Pope Francis for North-South Korean peace talks. The delegation was led by Archbishop Hyginus Kim Hee-Joong, who also asked the pope to “pray for the improvement of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 23, 2017 Islamic State (ISIS) supporters who, according to U.S. President Donald Trump “worship death”, hailed the May 22 terrorist attack in Manchester as a victory against “the crusaders” of the West. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack in which a suicide bomber killed 22 and injured at least 59 outside […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 23, 2017 A British SAS sniper pulled off one of the longest recorded shots in history when he killed an Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist in Mosul from 2.4 kilometers (1.5 miles) away. The British soldier’s shot took three seconds to reach his target, hitting the jihadist in the throat and killing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 21, 2017 The EU is demanding Britain pay $112 billion (100 billion Euros) to leave the union. The Brits are having none of it. Brexit Secretary David Davis said negotiations would be plunged into “crisis” from the start because the EU refused to discuss a trade deal until Britain agreed to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The world economy is slowly improving with a forecast for 2.7 percent global growth, but there’s still a way to go to reach pre-recession levels. That’s part of the prognosis of the UN’s World Economic Situation midterm report for 2017 which cites stronger economic recovery […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 18, 2017 Conservatives haven’t fought the Left hard enough “because we keep thinking they will change and be open to reason,” columnist James Lewis wrote for American Thinker. But Democrats only have one playbook – “and they never stop following it,” Lewis wrote in an op-ed published on May 17. “Democrats […]
