by WorldTribune Staff, July 1, 2019 If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez needed schooling on concentration camps, she just got it — from someone who was in two of them. AOC last month tweeted that “The GOP has supported building mass concentration camps on the southern border. Kids & families are dying.” A 93-year-old survivor of two […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 1, 2019 An army of primarily young demonstrators smashed entrance glass windows, stormed and then occupied Hong Kong’s legislature on July 1, the anniversary of the city’s return to Chinese sovereignty. Another 550,000 protesters jammed the city’s streets as what started as a protest over legislation that would allow Hong Kong […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 30, 2019 President Donald Trump on June 30 became the first sitting U.S. commander in chief to set foot in North Korea when he briefly crossed the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Trump and Kim then walked into South Korean territory together and were joined by South […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 30, 2019 Two of three Palestinian businessmen who attended the recent U.S.-led economic workshop in Bahrain avoided arrest by Palestinian security forces by crossing the Green Line to Israeli-controlled territory, reports say. One of the businessmen who participated in the conference, Salah Abu Miala, was arrested on June 29 and later […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 30, 2019 Video footage from the Del Rio Sector in Texas shows migrants, some in designer clothes, toting luggage and backpacks with their children in tow pouring across the U.S.-Mexico border. “#USBP Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended 2 large groups of over 100 in 2 days,” Customs and Border […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 28, 2019 Students at the University of California at San Diego have a so-called “safe space” at the Ché Café Collective, named after Cuban revolutionary Ché Guevara, the icon of liberal chic whose image appears on two-tone t-shirts that are proudly worn by many students at campuses nationwide. In 2014, UC […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 30, 2019 A federal judge on June 28 issued a permanent injunction blocking the Trump administration from using Defense Department funds to build the border wall. Judge Haywood Gilliam of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, barred the Trump administration […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 28, 2019 Nicaragua’s military reported it has captured four Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists who had planned to enter the United States through Mexico. Nicaraguan authorities identified the men as two Egyptian nationals — 33-year old Mohamed Ibrahim and 26-year-old Mahmoud Samy Eissa — and two Iraqis, 41-year-old Ahmed Ghanim Mohamed Al […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Joe Schaeffer Last week we reported on the many well-known companies that are helping to settle African refugees in America in increasing numbers despite the threat of deadly diseases that they may bring with them such as the Ebola virus. This week we look at corporate support for the nongovernmental organizations that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 28, 2019 Joe Biden has been under pressure for weeks to explain major corruption issues involving China, Ukraine and his son Hunter. But in the 2020 Democratic presidential debate on June 27, the former vice president faced no such pressure from the moderators. Not a single question during the two-hour debate […]
