by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2016 Since some retailers decided to allow customers to use the restrooms and changing rooms of their gender identity, several incidents of men “peeping” into and taking photos of women using the facilities have been reported. Most recently, Dallas police said they were looking for a man who used his […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Iranian Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri fell out of favor with the clerical establishment, lost his status as Ayatollah Khomeini’s hand-picked successor and deputy, spent five years under house arrest, and was scorned for his support for the opposition “Green Movement” before his death in 2009. By Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Free Europe […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 9, 2016 A report that revealed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet spy in the 1980s is being called a “smear campaign” by Fatah leaders. A Sept. 7 report by Israel’s Channel 1 television, citing information it said was included in an archive smuggled out of the USSR, said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 9, 2016 North Korea announced its fifth nuclear weapons test only hours after South Korea noted unusual seismic activity near the North’s northeastern nuclear test site. Four of the five tests have taken place during the Barack Obama administration and the first under the George W. Bush administration. The U.S. policy […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 9, 2016 In defending the 2011 U.S. invasion of Libya during a foreign policy forum broadcast by NBC, Hillary Clinton insisted “we did not lose a single American in that action.” While no Americans died in the actual 26,000 U.S. bombing sorties during the Libya campaign, four Americans died in the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 9, 2016 A transgender student’s “twerking and grinding” in a high school girls locker room is being cited in a lawsuit filed in federal court by a group of Virginia parents seeking to stop that state’s public schools from opening locker rooms and showers to members of the opposite sex. The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 9, 2016 The creators of the first international beauty contest judged by artificial intelligence were likely using the scratching your head emoticon after the robots chose mostly white contestants as the winners. The robot judges of the Beauty.AI contest were “supposed to use objective factors such as facial symmetry and wrinkles […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Even the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIO) militants in Iraq and Syria will not extinguish the extremist group’s threat to the civilized world, top U.S. intelligence officials say. “The threat that I think will dominate the next five years for the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has once again praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and declared that he had been a better leader that U.S. President Barack Obama. Putin is “very much of a leader,” Trump said in a televised presidential forum moderated by the U.S. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2016 Did the IRS, the same federal agency that five years ago targeted conservative groups, allow the Clinton Foundation a pass on compliance requirements? Clinton Foundation officials “skirted or ignored federal laws and regulations” while converting the non-profit from its tax-exempt purpose of building a presidential library in Little Rock, […]
