by WorldTribune Staff, February 1, 2018 A huge portrait of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Ocalan in northern Syria was destroyed by a Turkish air force drone, reports say. The attack on the portrait, which was part of a monument built on a 53-meter concrete pedestal in Afrin, is part of Turkey’s so-called Operation […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 4, 2018 The storm over the Feb. 2 release of the FISA memo by the White House has led both political parties to proclaim a “constitutional crisis.” Here is the main takeaway from document: The FBI relied heavily on the discredited Trump “dossier” by ex-British spy Christopher Steele to obtain FISA […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 4, 2018 The eldest son of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro committed suicide on Feb. 1, according to Cuban state-run media. Fidel “Fidelito” Castro Diaz-Balart, 68, who “had been attended by a group of doctors for several months due to a state of profound depression, killed himself this morning,” the Cubadebate […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2018 A letter from a Chilean sex abuse victim contradicts Pope Francis’s “insistence that no victims had come forward,” The Associated Press reported. The eight-page letter that Pope Francis received in 2015, obtained exclusively by the AP, “graphically detailed how a priest sexually abused” the victim and how “other Chilean […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2018 Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros is driving the campaign against Israel’s plan to deport some 20,000 African migrants, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Feb. 4. The Jerusalem Post reported, citing a “source close to the prime minister,” that Netanyahu was referring to Soros’s funding contribution to the New […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Back in Ronald Reagan’s time, the underlining philosophical mantra of the extraordinary economic expansion was that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” Namely, as entrepreneurialism and enterprise were encouraged, the results would create the rising tide of progress. But later, in the early 1990’s slowdown, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2018 Due to the “meta son preference,” India has 63 million fewer females than it should have in its population and 21 million girls are “unwanted” by their families, a government report said. Indian parents continue having children until giving birth to a boy, the New Delhi government found in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 4, 2018 Israel and Egypt have become “secret allies” in an effort to drive Islamic State-affiliated terrorists out of North Sinai, a report said. Israel, with the blessing of Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi, has used drones, jets, and helicopters in Sinai to target jihadists in more than 100 airstrikes over […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 1, 2018 The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, with assistance from 85 federal, state and local agencies, carried out a statewide crackdown on human trafficking last week that resulted in 510 arrests. The operation also rescued 56 female trafficking victims, KTLA TV reported. During a Jan. 30 news conference, L.A. County Sheriff […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 1, 2018 Facebook’s advertising revenues increased by 49 percent in 2017 even though the number of users and the time spent by users on the site decreased. The trend shifts followed changes to the “algorithms” governing content distribution and impacting the bottom lines of competing news organizations, reports say. Meanwhile the […]
