by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2017 A terror suspect wearing an explosives vest who was captured before he could enter a busy Beirut cafe confessed to being an Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) jihadist. The suspect, a Lebanese national from Sidon, attempted to enter a cafe in Beirut’s Hamra district on Jan. 21 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2017 A town on the Suonada Sea that calls itself “Japan’s USA” has come under fire on the homefront for its celebration of U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Residents of the rural town of Usa in Oita Prefecture formed the “Extravagantly Celebrate the American Presidential Inauguration in Japan’s USA Association” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 22, 2017 The Pentagon during the Trump administration will be “devoted to gaining full value from every taxpayer dollar spent on defense,” Secretary of Defense Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis said on Jan. 20. Mattis sent a letter to Department of Defense employees almost immediately after being sworn in. “It’s good […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 22, 2017 The Women’s March on Washington really wasn’t about women at all, a CNN analyst said. “It’s not about women, it’s about liberalism,” Bakari Sellers said of the Jan. 21 march. Sellers and Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Nance had been arguing about the inclusiveness of the march when […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 22, 2017 Israeli officials have approved hundreds of new settler homes, the construction of which were postponed until after U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Building permits for 566 settler homes in east Jerusalem were approved on Jan. 22. “The rules of the game have changed with Donald Trump’s arrival as president,” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty At least 20 firefighters died after a high-rise building in downtown Teheran caught fire and collapsed, the semiofficial Fars News Agency cited the mayor of the Iranian capital as saying. Firefighters battled the blaze for several hours on January 19 before the 17-story Plasco building came […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 20, 2017 The inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th President of the United States will feature 26 religious leaders and a record six prayers as part of the ceremonies. Trump was to be sworn in using both his own Bible, a gift from his mother, and the Bible used to swear […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 20, 2017 Iran is “not worried at all” that the U.S.’s new president will follow through on his vow to “rip up” the nuclear deal. “We are not going to be wary of what Trump does and we will have our options,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Jan. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 20, 2017 Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) stands to profit greatly for helping Syrian President Bashar Assad take back most of his country from rebel forces. It what an opposition group called the “looting of the Syrian people,” the IRGC is expected to reap huge financial benefits from the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 19, 2017 The ax cometh, as WorldTribune correspondents report Washington, D.C. is like an armed camp. The security measures are in preparation for both an inauguration and a power struggle on a scale the capital of the Free World has never seen. Congress and even President-elect Donald Trump’s own cabinet are […]
