Report: Qatar funding globalization curriculum in U.S. public schools

Report: Qatar funding globalization curriculum in U.S. public schools

by WorldTribune Staff, August 27, 2017 Qatar, which has been accused of funding terrorist organizations, is pumping millions of dollars into U.S. elementary, middle and high schools for the purpose of globalization instruction, a report said. The Qatar Foundation over the past eight years has given $30.6 million to several dozen schools from New York […]

Lebanon strips beauty queen of title after learning she visited Israel

Lebanon strips beauty queen of title after learning she visited Israel

by WorldTribune Staff, August 25, 2017 The winner of the 2017 Miss Lebanon Emigrant competition has been stripped of her title after pageant officials discovered she had visited Israel. Amanda Hanna, who is Swedish and Lebanese, won the contest for women of Lebanese ancestry earlier this month. When organizers of the competition discovered from Hanna’s […]

Russia flies nuclear-capable bombers near N. Korea as U.S., S. Korea hold war games

Russia flies nuclear-capable bombers near N. Korea as U.S., S. Korea hold war games

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 […]

Syria, Hizbullah agree to allow ISIS to withdraw from Syria-Lebanon border

Syria, Hizbullah agree to allow ISIS to withdraw from Syria-Lebanon border

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 […]

Woman raised by lesbians tells gay community: ‘I ached every day … we need to talk about it’

Woman raised by lesbians tells gay community: ‘I ached every day … we need to talk about it’

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 […]

Poll: Millennials like Donald Trump in Mideast, Poland

Poll: Millennials like Donald Trump in Mideast, Poland

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 […]

Bannon is gone, but President Trump’s Tweet feed is alive and well

Bannon is gone, but President Trump’s Tweet feed is alive and well

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 […]

U.S. Navy fires commander of Seventh Fleet after second deadly collision at sea

U.S. Navy fires commander of Seventh Fleet after second deadly collision at sea

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, […]

Erasing history: Ontario teachers want name of Canadian founding father removed from schools

Erasing history: Ontario teachers want name of Canadian founding father removed from schools

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 […]

Nuclear blackmail: Iran warns it could have highly enriched uranium ‘within 5 days’

Nuclear blackmail: Iran warns it could have highly enriched uranium ‘within 5 days’

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 […]