by WorldTribune Staff, August 25, 2017 Russia flew nuclear-capable strategic bombers and planes with advanced intelligence gathering capabilities near the Korean peninsula this week while the U.S. and South Korea were conducting war games. Japan and South Korea scrambled fighter jets to escort the Russian Tupolev-95MS bombers, according to an Aug. 24 Reuters report. Russia […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 25, 2017 Islamic State (ISIS) asked and was allowed to withdraw from the Syrian-Lebanon border area in the Qalamoun region, an official in Syrian President Bashar Assad’s military alliance said. “Islamic State asked for negotiations and a withdrawal, and the Syrian side and Hizbullah agreed,” the official said. ISIS was permitted […]
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 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2017 President Donald Trump, who said in Phoenix on Aug. 22 that “if I didn’t have social media, I wouldn’t be here tonight,” returned to Twitter on Aug. 24 to again slam the “fake news” media, call out former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and take GOP congressional leaders […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2017 The commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet has been fired after the Aug. 21 collision of the USS John McCain and an oil tanker, the second deadly collision involving U.S. vessels in recent months. “Adm. Scott Swift, commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, today relieved the commander of Seventh Fleet, […]
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 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2017 Phoenix became a safe haven for illegal aliens after a liberal group met with the city’s new police chief, the government watchdog group, Judicial Watch reported. After a closed-door session in May between Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams and Will Goana, policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2017 Key members of the team which helped drive Donald Trump to perhaps the biggest election upset in U.S. history were effectively snubbed for key positions on the president’s national security team, Trump campaign aides said. “Even though President Trump calls the investigations into (Russian) collusion a ‘witch hunt,’ after […]
