Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty In a new report, the U.S. State Department raised concerns over laws against blasphemy and apostasy in Islamic societies. “Such laws conflict with and undermine universally recognized human rights,” it said in its annual report on global religious freedom released on August 10. In Pakistan, blasphemy […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2016 An international tribunal’s ruling against China over contested reefs and atolls in the South China Sea has not stopped Beijing from continuing its military buildup in the sea, recently released satellite images show. China continues to build bases on islands it has reclaimed, and satellite images released on Aug. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2016 In newly-obtained emails, Hillary Clinton’s top aides at the State Department discussed “taking care” of a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire who was a top donor to the Clinton Foundation. On Aug. 9, Judicial Watch released 296 pages of State Department records, of which 44 email exchanges were not previously turned over […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2016 The former top intelligence official in the Obama administration said jihadists aligned with Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) are already in the United States and the White House is hiding information on that threat from the American public. “They are here,” Gen. Michael Flynn, former Defense Intelligence […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2016 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has suggested that the Democratic staffer who was murdered in July was the source for the recent leaked Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails. On July 8, 27-year-old Seth Conrad Rich was murdered in Washington D.C. The killer or killers took nothing from their victim, leaving […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2016 An American-based Turkish military officer is seeking asylum in the United States after Ankara issued a detention order for him in the wake of last month’s failed coup attempt, according to an exclusive Reuters report. The asylum bid of Turkish Navy Rear Adm. Mustafa Ugurlu is the first known […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The son of Iran’s last shah has urged Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to intervene to help an Iranian activist jailed in Italy, saying he risks execution if he is extradited. Mehdi Khosravi was arrested in northern Italy on August 6, with police saying they had […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said his rival Hillary Clinton’s e-mails may be responsible for the death of an Iranian nuclear scientist who was executed for spying for the United States. “Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct U.S. and Israeli officials are nearing completion of protracted negotiations over a planned decade-long deal for U.S. military assistance, despite deep bilateral political discord stemming mainly from nearly unbridled enmity between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The scope and nature of this assistance is […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2016 GOP candidate Donald Trump’s critics and the cacophony of coordinated messaging against him on both conventional and social media shows this opponents are “scared” because “they never thought that he’d be where he is,” Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, said on Aug. 8. She also challenged her father’s critics, mostly in […]
