by WorldTribune Staff, October 15, 2017 The hacking of a network used by UK Prime Minister Theresa May, her cabinet and all members of British parliament was carried out by Iran, reports say. In all, 90 email accounts were hacked, but a total of 9,000 accounts were affected by the attack, the Telegraph reported, citing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 6, 2017 News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch is spearheading the news industry’s war against tech and social media giants Facebook and Google, which have “eaten journalism’s business model and forever changed how readers consume information,” an analysis said. “Stories in recent months highlighting Facebook and Google’s fraught role in the election […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 29, 2017 In announcing via Twitter that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, American actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus said universal health care should be “a reality” in the United States. The 56-year-old star of HBO’s Veep and former Seinfeld cast member tweeted, “1 in 8 women get breast cancer. Today, I’m the one. The good […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs What form of governance is “best”? What is most durable? What is most equitable? What produces the best economic results? These questions are usually posed — and the answers are usually imposed — as though a universally applicable model could be found by […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Dr.Fariborz Saremi, August 28,2017 Since the Second World War German leaders have, understandably, shrunk from the idea that their country can exercise leadership on the global stage. The view in Bonn and then Berlin was that German power should be exercised through Europe. But the EU is no longer enough. Foreign […]
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 […]
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” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 6, 2017 It is impossible to conclude that recent years have been the warmest ever because climate scientists have continually adjusted global surface temperature readings upward, a new study says. The readings by scientists in recent years “are totally inconsistent with published and credible U.S. and other temperature data,” according to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 23, 2017 Many observers believe Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp went off the deep end on June 22 when, to a round of applause, he quipped about the assassination of U.S. President Donald Trump. While introducing a movie at “Cinemageddon,” a film stage at England’s famous Glastonbury Festival, Depp […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 20, 2017 UK officials since 1999 had warned of the risks of using environmentally friendly exterior insulation on buildings, only to be ignored by environmentalists. A blog post by the Grenfell Action Group in November 2016 warned that “only a catastrophic event” would bring attention to the issue. That “catastrophic event” […]
