by WorldTribune Staff, August 29, 2017 Sebastian Gorka, who since January has served as deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, resigned from the White House on Aug. 25. Full text of his resignation letter: Dear Mr. President, It has been my high honor to serve in the White House as one of your Deputy Assistants […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Imprisoned Iranian spiritual leader Mohammad Ali Taheri has been sentenced to death for a second time, two years after an initial death sentence that was overturned on appeal. Taheri’s lawyer Mahmud Alizadeh Tabatabaei said on Aug. 27 that Taheri has been sentenced after being convicted of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2017 North Korea’s nuclear missile threats have dominated world headlines this year, but growing unrest in the South is exacerbating tensions on a peninsula bordering China and Russia and with U.S. forces stationed in the South. Protests against the liberal Moon Jae-In administration are becoming more frequent and show a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 27, 2017 Qatar, which has been accused of funding terrorist organizations, is pumping millions of dollars into U.S. elementary, middle and high schools for the purpose of globalization instruction, a report said. The Qatar Foundation over the past eight years has given $30.6 million to several dozen schools from New York […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 25, 2017 The winner of the 2017 Miss Lebanon Emigrant competition has been stripped of her title after pageant officials discovered she had visited Israel. Amanda Hanna, who is Swedish and Lebanese, won the contest for women of Lebanese ancestry earlier this month. When organizers of the competition discovered from Hanna’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 25, 2017 A woman who was raised by her mother and her mother’s lesbian partner said that she “ached every day for a dad.” “I grew up surrounded by women who said they didn’t need or want a man,” Heather Barwick wrote in an essay for The Federalist. “Yet, as a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 25, 2017 Who says “the kids” don’t like President Donald Trump? Large numbers of millennials in the United States are rumored to be bunkered in their parents’ basements against the reality of a Trump Administration, but the American President has solid support among millennials in some European and Mideast nations, a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Donald Trump’s notion of “fire and fury” for North Korea inspires cheers, fears and jeers. Is he threatening the biblical “fire and brimstone,” or does his rhetoric more closely resemble Shakespeare’s “tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”? Yes, there are those who think […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2017 A debate similar to the removal of Confederate monuments in the United States is playing out in Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald was Canada’s first prime minister and is considered one of the nation’s founding fathers. He is credited with having joined the eastern and western parts of Canada […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2017 The chief of Iran’s atomic program said the United States would be shocked at how quickly the Islamic Republic could rebuild its stocks of highly enriched uranium should President Donald Trump walk away from the nuclear deal. Ali Akbar Salehi, who is also one of Iran’s vice presidents, said […]
