by WorldTribune Staff, June 30, 2016 North Korea solidified Kim Jong-Un’s absolute grip on power by creating a supreme governing commission and naming the 33-year-old leader as its chairman. The nuclear-armed country’s legislative body, the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA), unanimously voted Kim as head of the State Affairs Commission on June 29, the North’s official […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 30, 2016 Japan’s Supreme Court has cleared the way for the government’s continued monitoring of Muslims in the country. In upholding the government’s blanket surveillance of Muslims, the court struck down the second appeal by Japanese Muslim plaintiffs against what they said was an unconstitutional invasion of their privacy and freedom […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 30, 2016 Just hours after Turkey signed an accord normalizing ties with Israel, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized organizers of the 2010 flotilla that ultimately led to the severing of relations between the two nations. “Did you ask me before you set sail? Did you ask my permission,” Erdogan said on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 30, 2016 A top House Democrat is urging the Obama administration to halt Boeing’s planned sale of more than 100 planes to Iran. Rep. Brad Sherman of California said it is “virtually certain” Iran will use the planes for nefarious purposes, such as delivering arms to the Syrian regime or the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 30, 2016 In a nod to the more than 50 percent of the population under the age of 25, Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Sultan is looking to construct U.S.-style theme parks in the kingdom. Bin Salman, the 30-year-old who has risen swiftly since being appointed deputy crown prince last year, is […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 29, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), which promised to unleash mass casualty attacks during the holy month of Ramadan, is suspected of carrying out terror strikes in Turkey, Yemen and Lebanon over a two-day period that left at least 89 people dead and wounded hundreds more. Turkish officials […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 29, 2016 The distraught mother of one of the Americans killed in the Sept. 11, 2012 terror attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya continues to plead for answers, an apology, or any kind of acknowledgment of responsibility from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s response: “It’s time to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 29, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) jihadists have turned back an offensive by U.S.-backed Syrian rebels near a key supply route linking the terror group’s territory in Syria and Iraq. The U.S.-trained New Syrian Army (NSA), backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, seized a small airbase near the Abu […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 29, 2016 Iraqi forces are closing in on an airfield they hope to use as a staging ground for an offensive against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in Mosul. The Iraqi forces are now some 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the airbase at Qayara, military officials told Reuters. Prime […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 28, 2016 The very people President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sought to defeat in Libya ended up being the only ones who came to the rescue of Americans under attack on Sept. 11, 2012 in Benghazi. Americans, who came under lethal mortar attack from terrorists, were rescued […]
