by WorldTribune Staff, November 20, 2016 Technology developed to explore the subsurface of Mars is being used by a NASA-led team to search for water deep beneath the Kuwait desert. “An international team led by research scientist Essam Heggy of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., recently traveled to northern Kuwait to map the depth […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 20, 2016 U.S. drone strikes have increased in Afghan provinces where Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has seized territory, the U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said. Army Gen. John Nicholson said there are some 1,300 ISIL jihadists in Afghanistan who “receive money, guidance, and communications support” from ISIL leaders […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 18, 2016 The Trump revolution has crossed the Potomac. President-elect Donald Trump has begun to fill key law enforcement and national security positions as his team deployed “landing parties” to Washington, D.C. to expedite the transition process. Trump announced on Nov. 17 that he plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 18, 2016 East Libyan forces under the command of Gen. Khalifa Haftar on Nov. 17 drove Islamist militants from one of their last strongholds in Benghazi. Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) took control of the southwestern district of Ganfouda, and nearby Guwarsha, after flushing out opposing forces. The LNA has been […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 18, 2016 The campaign of Gov. Pat McCrory has filed ballot protests in 50 of North Carolina’s 100 counties. McCrory, who trails Democrat Roy Cooper by about 5,000 votes, is challenging what the campaign said are known instances of votes being cast by dead people, felons or individuals who voted more […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 18, 2016 Saudi Arabia is about to reveal a state secret that it has kept the lid on since the 1980s – the true amount of its oil reserves. The kingdom will make the disclosure as it prepares for the 2018 initial public offering (IPO) of Saudi Aramco that could bring […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 18, 2016 For the second time this year, Iran has exceeded the agreed upon limit on its stock of heavy water, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said. The IAEA reported last week that Iran’s stock of heavy water had risen above the 130-ton level set in the nuclear agreement with […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 17, 2016 As the major media narrative had it, Donald Trump’s nomination as the GOP presidential nominee would sink the Republican Party. The GOP would lose the Senate, possibly the House and suffer defeat after defeat right down to the state level. But team Trump saw what the media refused to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 17, 2016 The U.S. House of Representatives’ decision to reauthorize sanctions means Iran will take ‘powerful’ but unspecified action, a senior Iranian official said. The House voted 419-1 on Nov. 15 to renew the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) for another 10 years. “If you extend the sanctions, this will mean kicking […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 17, 2016 The nonstop wall of sound from the mainstream media is about disarray and chaos in the Trump transition. That is a totally false narrative according Trump Senior Advisor Kellyanne Conway. Officials who are in negotiations for top positions with the incoming administration have conveyed the same assessment. The real […]
