CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 30, 2018 President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said he plans to loosen Brazil’s strict gun laws. “By decree, we plan to guarantee the ownership of firearms by citizens without criminal records,” Bolsonaro, who takes office on Jan. 1, tweeted on Dec. 29. During […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Unfortunately the election of Muslim representatives to the Congress has taken the kind of turn that can only make the majority — Christians and Jews — even more nervous. The argument has been, of course, that Muslims are only another brand of the Abrahamic religions and therefore part […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 28, 2018 The New York Times revealed in a report last week that a “false flag” operation launched by Democratic operatives linked Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore’s campaign to Russian bots. The scheme, funded by liberal billionaire and LinkedIn co-founder Reid […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 26, 2018 Germany’s highest court of civil and criminal jurisdiction has ruled that a law banning child marriages may be unconstitutional. The Federal Court of Justice this month ruled that a law passed last year raising the marriage age from 16 […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 28, 2018 Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Dec. 26 to testify against his successor, Mohammed Morsi, who is on trial for what prosecutors say is his role in a mass prison break during the 2011 revolution that […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 27, 2018 In one of the largest Russian military deployments to the region since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, Moscow has sent supersonic bombers to one of Venezuela’s islands in the Caribbean Sea. Russian military Col. Eduard Rodyukov said the […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 27, 2018 In the waning days of the GOP’s majority in the House, Rep. Mark Meadows rallied Republicans to take a stand on border wall funding and urged President Donald Trump not to back down on the issue. The North Carolina […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2018 The woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault while the two were in high school in the 1980s has been active in the Trump resistance movement, reports say. Christine Blasey Ford, a California psychology […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy In the fall of 2015, a rather curious incident took place in Israel’s Knesset. A leader of the Arab party (Balad), Jamal Zahalka furiously attacked the Left. “You won’t even greet me. You are a racist! … The far right is amicable at least: they say hello and smile […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, November 16, 2018 As a candidate, Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar presented herself as a moderate on Israel. Soon after her victory in the 2018 midterms, however, Minnesota’s first Muslim congresswoman said she is committed to sanctioning Israel. The Minnesota Democrat, during the campaign, […]
