by WorldTribune Staff, July 17, 2017 Officials in Mississippi are demanding that an electric car company founded by current Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe repay more than $6 million in public funds. In a report released on July 12, the office of Mississippi State Auditor Stacey Pickering said GreenTech Automotive did not come close to creating the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 16, 2017 The Turkey of Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued its purge of state institutions one year after a failed coup attempt as the government dismissed more than 7,000 police, ministry staff and academics on July 14. The official Turkish government Gazette said that those who were fired are people “who it’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 17, 2017 None of Al Gore’s many apocalyptic climate scenarios have materialized, yet the former U.S. vice president has become a very rich man via that very scaremongering, a columnist for The Daily Telegraph wrote. “Any normal person with such a woeful record of accuracy as Gore would be ashamed to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 17, 2017 The government of South Korean President Moon Jae-In has made its first formal overture to North Korea, proposing direct military talks between Seoul and Pyongyang. South Korea’s Defense Ministry proposed talks between representatives of the two countries’ militaries that would be held on July 21 at Tongil-gak on the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 16, 2017 Fusion GPS, which was behind the discredited Trump-Russia dossier authored by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, also set up and participated in the now infamous meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, reports say. The roles played by the Democrat-funded opposition firm and the Obama administration itself […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 16, 2017 A longtime Republican researcher, who sought to obtain Hillary Clinton’s 30,000 deleted emails and was a key source in the “Troopergate” scandal that nearly derailed Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, died in what media reports termed a suicide. According to public records obtained by the Chicago Tribune, Peter W. Smith, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 16, 2017 Italian officials have threatened to issue temporary EU visas to 200,000 migrants. Italy has been struggling to cope with a huge increase in people fleeing north Africa and has become frustrated with what it says is the lack of help from its EU neighbors. More than 86,000 migrants have […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 14, 2017 Israel has agreed to sell 33 million cubic meters of water to the Palestinian Authority (PA) to help relieve the PA’s dire water situation, an envoy to U.S. President Donald Trump announced on July 13. U.S. Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt said Israel and the Palestinians had […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 16, 2017 A North Carolina county violated the U.S. Constitution by allowing elected officials to open meetings with a Christian prayer, a federal appeals court said in a divided ruling last week. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, in a 10-5 decision on July 14, overturned a ruling by […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 14, 2017 The commander of U.S. troops in Iraq is cautioning against being overly optimistic following the defeat of Islamic State (ISIS) in Mosul. Iraq’s government has much work to do if it is to ensure “ISIS 2.0” doesn’t arise in Mosul and elsewhere in the country, Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend […]
