Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The artillery rumbles like a rolling late spring storm. Small arms fire reaches a staccato, only to fall silent just as quickly. And hapless civilians on both sides of an arbitrary divide endure and suffer as the forgotten slow burner conflict in eastern Ukraine continues […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2016 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed “shock” after Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip celebrated the June 8 terror attacks that left four dead at a popular shopping and restaurant district in Tel Aviv. “The Secretary-General is shocked that the leaders of Hamas have chosen to welcome this […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2016 Sen. Ted Cruz is spearheading new legislation aimed at stopping U.S. museums from “waiting out the clock” in a bid to keep high-priced artworks looted by Nazis from being returned to Jewish Holocaust victims. “Over 70 years later — we are still trying to cope with the consequences of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2016 BP and Italy’s Eni have reported a gas discovery off the coast of Egypt that holds 70 to 80 billion cubic meters of gas. The discovery in the Baltim South West area is jointly owned by both companies, Eni said in a press release on June 9. “Baltim South […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2016 A Canadian scholar on gender issues and Islam was arrested on June 6 while visiting Iran. Homa Hoodfar, who teaches at Concordia University in Montreal, is at least the fifth dual-national detained in Iran in recent months, according to the New York-based International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2016 Hillary Clinton, in a June 8 interview with PBS, claimed no American lives were lost in the U.S. intervention in Libya and hinted that “pre-existing rivalries” were the primary cause of the chaos that followed. “After due diligence, we came up with a way of supporting their efforts that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Drudge-Select — June 9, 2016 c/o DrudgeReport.com Russia violating new START arms treaty… … ‘Could smash NATO in 60 hours’… … Wiping out U.S.-backed rebels in Syria… Trump son-in-law emerges as quiet force… Top Secret Spy Satellite Launch…
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com North Korea, that is the people who run the place, likes nothing better than endorsements from foreign visitors. The list of foreigners paying obeisance to the Kim regime, Kim Jong-Un and his father and grandfather before him, is quite long. The operator of a website in Los Angeles […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 A group of Yazidi girls who refused to become Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) sex slaves were locked in cages and burned alive, reports say. ISIL jihadists publicly executed the 19 Yazidi girls in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, according to the Kurdish ARA news […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 Rights groups are blasting the UN’s decision to remove Saudi Arabia from a blacklist of nations accused of harming children in armed conflict. “It appears that political power and diplomatic clout have been allowed to trump the UN’s duty to expose those responsible for the killing and maiming of […]
