by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2016 While the Islamic Republic’s regime reaps a windfall of cash from the lifting of sanctions, it has only increased repression of its people, dissidents say. “Nothing changed in Iran’s people’s life” since the nuclear deal was signed, says Shabnam Madadzadeh, 29, a student organizer at Teheran’s Tarbiat Moalem University […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2016 The largest milk-producing state in the union has a beef with its bovines. The problem? California’s cows are farting too much – and it is killing the earth. Gov. Jerry Brown, despite strong opposition from the state’s dairy farmers, signed legislation in September that for the first time regulates […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Golnaz Esfandiari Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Until recently, Mahmud Sadeghi was an obscure legal expert whose most conspicuous professional accomplishment was a two-year advisory stint with Iran’s Education Ministry. That changed with the 54-year-old’s election to parliament in Iran’s tightly controlled elections in February, as one of 133 relative […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2016 With 79 percent of its abortion facilities within walking distance of black or Latino neighborhoods, Planned Parenthood is inflicting “real genocide” on American minority communities, rapper and TV host Nick Cannon said. Cannon, a host on “America’s Got Talent”, said in an interview with The Breakfast Club radio show […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2016 The law firm hired to defend the North Carolina Board of Elections in the current gubernatorial recount has solid ties to Democratic candidate Roy Cooper, a report said. Cooper earlier this month had announced that two members of the Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard law firm would be […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 29, 2016 South Korean President Park Geun-Hye, in a live address to the nation on Nov. 29, said she would resign if lawmakers develop a plan for the safe transfer of power after an influence scandal involving her closest friend brought thousands of protesters into the streets of Seoul and other […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 29, 2016 An Iranian gunboat pointed its loaded machine gun at a U.S. Navy helicopter flying over the Gulf of Hormuz on Nov. 25, U.S. defense officials said. In the latest of a series of incidents between Iranian and American forces in and around the Persian Gulf, the officials told Fox […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner President-Elect Donald Trump may be about to make a big mistake — the first one of his presidential transition. And the damage could be enormous. As a staunch Trump supporter and America First nationalist, I am urging that he not pick — under any circumstances — Mitt Romney to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 29, 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein received less than 1 percent of the vote on Nov. 8 and got only 36 seconds combined of coverage from ABC, CBS and NBC for the entire campaign. The same networks who ignored her third party presidential bid, however, can’t get enough of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 29, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) jihadists used 4-wheel drive vehicles rigged with explosives to attack a North Sinai checkpoint on Nov. 24, killing at least 12 Egyptian soldiers. “A number of caliphate soldiers attacked a checkpoint belonging to the apostate Egyptian army in the Sabeel village, southwest […]
