Angry protests in Turkey after bomber kills 50 at wedding party for pro-Kurdish party member

Angry protests in Turkey after bomber kills 50 at wedding party for pro-Kurdish party member

by WorldTribune Staff, August 21, 2016 Angry mourners on Aug. 21 threw bottles at police and chanted “murderer Erdogan” at a gathering for the funerals of some of the 51 people killed in a bombing at a wedding party for a pro-Kurdish party member. The bomber detonated an explosives vest as people danced in the […]

Jerusalem resident indicted for funneling Hamas money to families of terrorists

Jerusalem resident indicted for funneling Hamas money to families of terrorists

by WorldTribune Staff, August 21, 2016 The owner of a chain of women’s clothing stores in Jeruslaem has been indicted with smuggling money from Hamas to families of terrorists in Israel. Prosecutors have charged Saif Al-Din Abed Al-Nabi, 39, a resident of Jerusalem, with smuggling and contacting a foreign agent, according to a report by […]

Trump is morally unfit, say these Hollywood stars who passionately defended child rapist Polanski

Trump is morally unfit, say these Hollywood stars who passionately defended child rapist Polanski

Special to WorldTribune.com Joe Schaeffer Three-time Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep recently expressed “shock” that her former co-star Clint Eastwood is supporting Donald Trump, declaring that she hoped he would be “more sensitive” than that. She has also been quoted as saying that “all the women say no” to a Trump presidency. In Streep’s world, […]

Pentagon: Putin deploys 40,000 troops to staging areas near Ukraine border

Pentagon: Putin deploys 40,000 troops to staging areas near Ukraine border

by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2016 Russia has amassed 40,000 troops along with a number of tanks, armored vehicles and air force units in staging areas near the Ukraine border, the Pentagon said. Additionally, “large numbers of Russian military forces will conduct exercises in the coming days that Pentagon officials say could be used as […]

Russia’s use of air base sparks sensitive high level debate in Iran

Russia’s use of air base sparks sensitive high level debate in Iran

by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2016 Russia’s use of Iranian air bases to launch attacks in Syria has ignited an intense debate in the Islamic Republic, which is obsessive about the issue of sovereignty. Ali Larijani, the influential speaker of Iran’s parliament, responded to concerns raised by a fellow conservative lawmaker, Heshmatollah Falahatpishe, who questioned […]

Feminist group in New Mexico files suit to block Feds’ transgender guidelines

Feminist group in New Mexico files suit to block Feds’ transgender guidelines

by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2016 The Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), a group of “radical feminists”, has filed a lawsuit aimed at blocking the Obama administration’s guidelines on transgender people’s use of public bathrooms. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque on Aug. 18, says that two WoLF’s New Mexico members, identified in […]

Latinos ‘cast as traitors’ for daring to voice conservative views on college campuses

Latinos ‘cast as traitors’ for daring to voice conservative views on college campuses

by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2016 Latino students with conservative leanings are finding life difficult on the allegedly “liberal” bastions that are American college campuses. They have been “cast as traitors” and in some instances threatened for daring to deviate from leftist position deemed socially acceptable. George Washington University student Diego Rebollar told The College […]

Trump heads to flood-ravaged Louisiana while Obama vacations and Hillary rests

Trump heads to flood-ravaged Louisiana while Obama vacations and Hillary rests

by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on Aug. 19 visited Louisiana to lend his support to citizens of a state that has been devastated by recent flooding. Meanwhile, the leaders of the same party that savaged President George W. Bush for his response to hurricane Katrina had no plans to […]

Game changer: Without Obama’s deal, Moscow could not have launched bombing strikes on Syria from Iran

Game changer: Without Obama’s deal, Moscow could not have launched bombing strikes on Syria from Iran

by WorldTribune Staff, August 18, 2016 Russia would never have used Iranian air bases for attacks in Syria before U.S. President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Teheran, When the world was sanctioning Iran, “the Russians kept the regime at arm’s length,” the Jerusalem Post said in an analysis on Aug. 18. Two weeks ago, the […]

Obama to hand over control of the Internet — created by the U.S. military — on Oct. 1

Obama to hand over control of the Internet — created by the U.S. military — on Oct. 1

by WorldTribune Staff, August 18, 2016 President Barack Obama is set to relinquish the last vestiges of U.S. control of the Internet. Barring “any significant impediment” the Department of Commerce will finalize the transition effective Oct. 1, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Lawrence Strickling said on Aug. 16. The U.S. Department of Defense awarded contracts as […]