TOP 2014 STORIES Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA, May 7 — Iran has been rocked by huge explosion near a nuclear facility. The Iranian media have reported an explosion in the northern Iranian city of Qazvin. The blast, reported on May 6, was said to have taken place near a secret nuclear enrichment facility in Abyek. […]
TOP 2014 STORIES Special to WorldTribune.com, Sept. 12 WASHINGTON — Islamic State of Iraq and Levant has been operating anti-aircraft batteries stolen from the Iraqi military. Officials said the U.S. military has determined that ISIL deployed an unspecified number of anti-aircraft artillery to counter Western air strikes in northern Iraq. Western diplomatic sources said ISIL […]
TOP 2014 STORIES Special to WorldTribune.com, Jan. 10 By Grace Vuoto The controversy swirling around President Obama’s birth certificate simply will not die. Take a recent plane crash in Hawaii. Some facts are so striking they require further examination. On Dec. 11, 2013 a small plane in Hawaii on a routine flight in the middle […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto The year 2014 in popular culture was filled with female celebrities behaving badly. Women now have a multitude of opportunities to express themselves and to succeed based on their unique talents. Yet, many powerful women instead chose to be degraded. This is feminism in reverse. Reality star Kim Kardashian […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com By now so many people have seen “The Interview” that it almost seems ridiculous to think that Sony briefly banned its release. The film is so accessible that Sony’s main problem may be how to get people to pay to see it when anyone can download it or […]
TOP 2014 STORIES Special to WorldTribune.com, Aug. 20 LONDON — The Saudi royal family is said to have been engaged in regional bribery. A leading anonymous Saudi dissident, known only as Mujtahidd, asserted that senior Saudi officials as well as royal family members were receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from Gulf Cooperation Council states. […]
TOP 2014 STORIES Special to WorldTribune.com, Aug. 15 WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has ordered his administration not to approve U.S. weapons deliveries to Israel. Officials said the White House ordered the State Department and Defense Department to suspend any Israeli request for weapons or other military supplies. They said Obama issued a directive that […]
TOP 2014 STORIES Special to WorldTribune.com, May 30, 2013 By Grace Vuoto The media is now consistently referring to three scandals engulfing the Obama presidency, even using a shorthand expression such as a “trifecta” of troubling incidents. Yet, there is a scandal brewing that is worse than the Department of Justice violating freedom of the […]