by WorldTribune Staff, June 14, 2016 A Dutch woman who told Qatari police she was raped has been convicted and deported for having sex outside marriage. The 22-year-old received a suspended sentence and was fined $824. Court officials said the woman would be deported once the fine was paid. According to a BBC report, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 14, 2016 The American press is approaching Congress when it comes to lack of public confidence. A Gallup survey found that “just 20 percent have confidence in newspapers, a 10-point drop in 10 years. TV news saw an identical 10-point drop, from 31 percent to 21 percent,” according to a report […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 14, 2016 The commander of the 10 U.S. sailors who were captured and held by Iran in January has been relieved of his command by the U.S. Navy. The Navy said in a statement on June 9 that it had lost confidence in Cmdr. Eric Rasch, who was the executive officer […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 13, 2016 Responsibility for the Orlando attack on a gay nightclub by a Muslim terrorist lies with Christians and Republicans, according to a pair of ACLU lawyers. Chase Strangio, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s LGBT and AIDS Project, blamed Christian conservatives for the attack at Pulse which killed 49 and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 13, 2016 A Turkish militant group has warned foreign tourists to stay away from the country. The Kurdish Freedom Falcons (TAK), a break-away group from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), has claimed responsibility for an attack on June 7 that targeted a police bus near Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. Eleven people were […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 13, 2016 Small arms imports by Middle East nations surged by 84 percent between 2012 and 2013, according to a new survey. The UAE and Saudi Arabia accounted for the largest budget increases, with Saudi tripling its import of small arms from $54 million in 2012 to $161 million a year […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The artillery rumbles like a rolling late spring storm. Small arms fire reaches a staccato, only to fall silent just as quickly. And hapless civilians on both sides of an arbitrary divide endure and suffer as the forgotten slow burner conflict in eastern Ukraine continues […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2016 BP and Italy’s Eni have reported a gas discovery off the coast of Egypt that holds 70 to 80 billion cubic meters of gas. The discovery in the Baltim South West area is jointly owned by both companies, Eni said in a press release on June 9. “Baltim South […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 Iraq’s advance on Fallujah has been delayed by strategy disagreements among the nation’s splintered forces. The Iraqi forces, having secured the southern edge of the city held by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), have been stalled for two days as commanders of elite counterterrorism special forces and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 7, 2016 The huge migrant workforce in Qatar has swelled to 1.4 million, making up 58 percent of the country’s population. The overwhelming majority of foreign workers – 1.34 million – are male and live in what the government calls “labor camps”, according to census figures released on June 5 by […]
