Special to WorldTribune.com After the Brexit and recent attacks against migrants in Britain I can’t get rid of the deja vu feeling. I’ve already watched this movie, a quarter century ago. I know how its ends. By Alexander Maistrovoy In summer of 1989, the Lithuanian Sejm decided to withdraw from the Soviet Union and establish […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 26, 2016 The major U.S. media lauded the “passion and purpose” on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, with some even moved to tears by Michelle Obama’s “pitch perfect” speech. The contrast in coverage of the “dark” acceptance speech by Republican nominee Donald Trump was of the glass-half-full kind, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Frud Bezhan, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Kacanik, KOSOVO – A plume of smoke hangs over our table in the corner of a dark, shabby café in this rugged town in southern Kosovo. The lanky 19-year-old sitting next to me is chain-smoking through half a pack of L&Ms, his hands […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 26, 2016 The Chinese government has banned several online news portals that were producing original investigative reports. News services run by Sina, Sohu, NetEase and iFeng were shut down for publishing independent reports instead of carrying official, state-produced news, local media said. In February, President Xi Jinping toured state media outlets […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 26, 2016 Highlights from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s July 25 interview with democracynow.org: “It is important for there to be examples of accountability. The resignation (of Debbie Wasserman Schultz) was an example of that. Now, of course, Hillary Clinton has tried to immediately produce a counter-example by putting out a statement, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 26, 2016 Turkey will open its border and allow a wave of migrants to flood into Europe unless the European Union pays the entire balance it promised Ankara for taking in millions of refugees, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. “Ask them [the EU]. Did you pay? But Turkey still hosts […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 25, 2016 Four violent attacks in the past week have Germans increasingly questioning the government’s taking in of over 1 million Middle Eastern migrants and refugees. A Syrian asylum seeker who wounded 15 people when he detonated a bomb outside a music festival in Ansbach on July 25 had pledged allegiance […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 25, 2016 The party that likes to talk about building bridges of inclusion has taken extreme measures to keep out those it doesn’t want at the Democratic National Convention. The Democratic National Committee installed a large fence that spans about four miles around the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia for the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 25, 2016 Turkey is arresting, firing or suspending scores of journalists, school teachers and university heads as some 13,000 people have now been ensnared in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup dragnet. Authorities issued detention warrants for 42 journalists, local media say, as part of an inquiry into the failed coup on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 25, 2016 Golf’s last major tournament of 2017 will remain in North Carolina and fans in attendance will be able to use the bathroom that “conforms with their gender identity or gender expression,” Golf.com reports. The PGA of America said the 2017 PGA Championship will be held as planned at Quail […]
