Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A U.S. government witness has testified that he paid over $50 million in bribes to Turkey’s economy minister in 2012 as part of a $1 billion scheme to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions. Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab described his arrangement with former Turkish Economy Minister Mehmet […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON ― He had to do it, didn’t he? Just when the optimists were saying, well, it’s been a few weeks since the last one, maybe he’s learned his lesson. What lesson? Kim Jong-Un (aka, “Rocket man”) sails on, oblivious to the fuming and fussing in capitals from Beijing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 28, 2017 Just how deeply partisan can one U.S. federal government agency be? Consider the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB is now under scrutiny by the Trump administration “which feels it is wasting taxpayer’s money and not returning much for their investment,” Washington Examiner columnist Paul Bedard noted in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 29, 2017 A Chinese company which operates 80 kindergartens is under fire after parents say children at one of the company’s kindergartens in Beijing were “molested, jabbed with needles, fed pills and forced to stand naked by staff members,” a report said. The firm at the center of the child abuse […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON – America’s top leaders are clearly uncertain as to how to retaliate for North Korea’s latest long-range missile test without resorting to a military option. President Donald Trump pledged, “We will take care of it” but showed no sign of unleashing the “fire and fury” that he had […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 28, 2017 Iran’s proxy Hizbullah must submit to a new arrangement in which its power is reduced, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Nov. 27. Hariri, in an interview with French broadcaster CNews, said he would finalize his resignation if Hizbullah and Iran do not agree to re-balance Lebanon’s political configuration. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 28, 2017 People who mocked Vice President Mike Pence for the professional boundaries he has set with women may be reconsidering their stances amid a wave of sexual abuse allegations against powerful men in politics, media and entertainment. The vice president does not dine alone with a woman other than his […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 27, 2017 Elders and residents in the Egyptian town where Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists killed at least 305 people in a Nov. 24 attack on a Sufi mosque had been warned in advance by ISIS, a report said. Security officials in Bir Al-Abed, located near the city of El-Arish in North […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 22, 2017 Facebook is continuing to allow discriminatory housing ads a year after an investigation uncovered the issue, a report said. ProPublica discovered in an investigation last year that people were able to take out housing ads on Facebook that “targeted whites only.” After the investigation, Facebook said it had come […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 27, 2017 The creepy roster of pervs from the media, politics and entertainment seems to grow by the day “and the vast majority of them happen to be liberal Democrats,” Rush Limbaugh noted. “You know, folks, I realize I’m America’s Real Anchorman and America’s Truth Detector, but I gotta tell you, […]
