Assange points to murdered DNC staffer as WikiLeaks source

Assange points to murdered DNC staffer as WikiLeaks source

by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2016 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has suggested that the Democratic staffer who was murdered in July was the source for the recent leaked Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails. On July 8, 27-year-old Seth Conrad Rich was murdered in Washington D.C. The killer or killers took nothing from their victim, leaving […]

Report: Turkish military officer, assigned to NATO in Norfolk, seeks asylum in U.S.

Report: Turkish military officer, assigned to NATO in Norfolk, seeks asylum in U.S.

by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2016 An American-based Turkish military officer is seeking asylum in the United States after Ankara issued a detention order for him in the wake of last month’s failed coup attempt, according to an exclusive Reuters report. The asylum bid of Turkish Navy Rear Adm. Mustafa Ugurlu is the first known […]

Italy urged not to extradite Iranian activist

Italy urged not to extradite Iranian activist

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The son of Iran’s last shah has urged Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to intervene to help an Iranian activist jailed in Italy, saying he risks execution if he is extradited. Mehdi Khosravi was arrested in northern Italy on August 6, with police saying they had […]

Trump charges Clinton e-mails may have led to Iranian scientist’s execution

Trump charges Clinton e-mails may have led to Iranian scientist’s execution

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said his rival Hillary Clinton’s e-mails may be responsible for the death of an Iranian nuclear scientist who was executed for spying for the United States. “Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. […]

Obama sets dangerous terms for generous military aid package to Israel

Obama sets dangerous terms for generous military aid package to Israel

Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct U.S. and Israeli officials are nearing completion of protracted negotiations over a planned decade-long deal for U.S. military assistance, despite deep bilateral political discord stemming mainly from nearly unbridled enmity between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The scope and nature of this assistance is […]

Daughter Ivanka explains wall of sound against Trump: ‘They’re scared’

Daughter Ivanka explains wall of sound against Trump: ‘They’re scared’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2016 GOP candidate Donald Trump’s critics and the cacophony of coordinated messaging against him on both conventional and social media shows this opponents are “scared” because “they never thought that he’d be where he is,” Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, said on Aug. 8. She also challenged her father’s critics, mostly in […]

Limbaugh: If bashing Trump were an Olympic event, the media would win every medal

Limbaugh: If bashing Trump were an Olympic event, the media would win every medal

by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2016 The news media is “doing a bigger job on Trump than they’ve ever done on me,” Rush Limbaugh said on Aug. 8, adding that “if bashing Donald Trump were an Olympic event, the news media would be winning every medal, every gold, every silver, every bronze.” The Trump bashing […]

Ahmadinejad to Obama: Fix Supreme Court ruling giving $2 billion to Iran terror victims

Ahmadinejad to Obama: Fix Supreme Court ruling giving $2 billion to Iran terror victims

by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2016 Since Barack Obama seems to be doing favors for Iran hand over foot, former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad apparently thought the U.S. president could oblige him by overruling the U.S. Supreme Court decision awarding $2 billion to the victims of Iran terrorism. In a letter to President Barack Obama made […]

UN warns 2 million in Aleppo, Syria at risk in fight for city

UN warns 2 million in Aleppo, Syria at risk in fight for city

by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2016 The United Nations has called for a “humanitarian pause” to fighting in Aleppo, Syria as some 2 million residents of the city are in danger of “coming under total siege.” Heavy fighting between an alliance of anti-Assad rebels and jihadists and Syrian regime forces backed by Russian airstrikes has […]

ISIL calls for attacks on Miss Universe pageant

ISIL calls for attacks on Miss Universe pageant

by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is calling on jihadists to attack the 2017 Miss Universe pageant. In a thread posted to a Telegram Messenger group called “IS Philippines supporters,” a jihadi, noting next year’s pageant, encourages “everyone who can” to launch attacks at the event. The Miss […]