by WorldTribune Staff, April 23, 2019 Before the April 21 vote, comedian Volodymyr Zelensky could always say “I’m not the president of Ukraine, but I played him on TV.” Now – Zelensky can also say he’s the president of Ukraine. Zelensky won in a landslide victory over President Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine’s April 21 runoff […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 21, 2019 A former U.S. Marine has been arrested in connection with a North Korean opposition group’s Feb. 22 raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid. Reuters reported that the participants fled the embassy with computers and hard drives that they presented to the FBI. Christopher Ahn, a member of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 21, 2019 More than 200 Catholic worshipers were killed in coordinated terrorist attacks on three churches and three hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. St. Sebastian’s Church, in the city of Negombo, was hit by the first explosion. The terror attack occurred at 8:45 a.m. local time during an Easter service. […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, April 18, 2019 In the wake of the potential loss of Notre Dame Cathedral to fire, The New York Times published an article by Pamela Druckerman stating “we’ve failed, as a civilization, to be the caretakers of something priceless.” “Priceless? Where in the New York Times over the past ten years […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 17, 2019 The global economy is losing $3.2 trillion per year due to corruption which includes bribery and theft of funds, according to the United Nations. Corruption “robs societies of schools, hospitals and other vital services, drives away foreign investment and strips nations of their natural resources,” said UN Secretary General […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 16, 2019 Christian places of worship in France and Germany are being torched and vandalized on a daily basis, according to news reports in Europe. In nearly all instances of attacks on churches, authorities and media obfuscate the identity of the vandals, German news site PI-News reported. Fox News hosts Shep […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 16, 2019 Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on April 15 decried Islamic states which he said “have become servants and followers of America and the Zionists.” “Today, many leaders of Arabic countries are of this kind,” Khamenei said, claiming that the leaders “colluded with Israelis and stepped on the blood […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 14, 2019 In 2014, Chinese hackers obtained the personnel records of 23 million U.S. federal workers in cyberattacks on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The Chinese government of supreme leader Xi Jinping is gleaning valuable information from the stolen records, said Rep. Chris Stewart, Utah Republican and member of the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 14, 2019 Nigel Farage said he launched the Brexit Party to “finish the job” on Great Britain leaving the European Union, which, he said, is being held up by the “arrogant elite” in parliament. In an April 14 op-ed for the Express, Farage noted that “the overwhelming majority of MPs agreed […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 12, 2019 The Catholic Church’s abuse crisis was fueled by the sexual revolution of the 1960s, former Pope Benedict XVI has written. Benedict, who resigned the papacy in 2013, says in a newly-drafted 6,000-word document – titled “The Church and the Scandal of Sexual Abuse” – that many in the ’60s […]
