by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2017 As part of its ambitious military buildup aimed at narrowing the gap with the United States, China has put into service its J-20 stealth fighter and vowed to build a “first class” navy and develop a marine corps. Chinese state television’s military channel confirmed in a March 9 report […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2017 The president pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate said the Raleigh News & Observer prodded Facebook to censor reader comments on news stories he had posted. “Today The News & Observer had Facebook delete hundreds of your comments on this page – just because they don’t like that we include […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2017 Two New York University (NYU) professors who undertook an experiment with the intent of showing the gender bias Hillary Clinton faced in the 2016 election were “unsettled” when the outcome was the opposite of what they expected. Professors Maria Guadalupe and Joe Salvatore and audiences of the gender-swap mock […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty About 400 additional U.S. forces have been temporarily deployed to Syria with heavy artillery in preparation for a fight to oust the extremist group Islamic State (IS) from its self-declared headquarters in the northern city of Raqqa. U.S. Air Force Colonel John Dorrian, a spokesman for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Suddenly the outlook for keeping the peace on the Korean peninsula has taken an alarming turn for the worse. We’ve long been accustomed to the threat of Korean War II, but now it’s looking like more than a scary mirage. China is up in arms over the arrival of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 9, 2017 The U.S. Marines have established America’s first artillery base in Syria as the fight to drive Islamic State (ISIS) from its de facto capital at Raqqa intensifies. A U.S. defense official would not speak to the size of the detachment deployed to Syria, but said it included elements of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 8, 2017 Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch signed off on both FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance) Court requests to wiretap the Trump campaign, according to reports. All applications to the FISA Court were signed off on by the attorney general, ABC news confirmed. This “means that she chose not to investigate the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 9, 2017 Shi’ite terrorism led by Iran must not be allowed to replace the Sunni terrorism of Al Qaida and Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed to Russian President Valdimir Putin. At their meeting in Moscow on March 9, Putin wished Netnayahu a happy Purim. The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 9, 2017 An America-based aid group that was assisting Syrian refugees in Turkey has been forced to shut down its operations by the Ankara government. Mercy Corps, one of the world’s largest humanitarian groups, was informed by the Turkish interior ministry that it no longer had permission to work in Turkey, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 8, 2017 Japanese lawmakers called on their nation to develop the ability to pre-emptively strike North Korean missile facilities, two days after three of four missiles fired from the communist nation landed in waters near Japan. “It is time we acquired the capability,” said Hiroshi Imazu, the chairman of the Liberal […]
