by WorldTribune Staff, June 13, 2016 Saudi and Egyptian citizens overwhelmingly disapprove of Barack Obama and prefer Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in the 2016 race for the U.S. presidency, according to a new report. The study published on June 13 by the Institute of Policy and Strategy at IDC Herzliya found that citizens of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 13, 2016 The UK voting to leave the European Union would boost anti-European forces and could lead to the end of “Western political civilization,” European Council president Donald Tusk warned. In a recent poll, 55 percent favored the Leave campaign compared to 45 percent favoring Remain. “As a historian I fear […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 13, 2016 Hillary Clinton has long positioned herself as a champion for children’s rights, but during her tenure atop the U.S. State Department she helped pave the way for South Sudan to continue sending child soldiers to fight and die on the front-lines of its battles. “Clinton had spent years vowing to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 13, 2016 Responsibility for the Orlando attack on a gay nightclub by a Muslim terrorist lies with Christians and Republicans, according to a pair of ACLU lawyers. Chase Strangio, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s LGBT and AIDS Project, blamed Christian conservatives for the attack at Pulse which killed 49 and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 13, 2016 A Turkish militant group has warned foreign tourists to stay away from the country. The Kurdish Freedom Falcons (TAK), a break-away group from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), has claimed responsibility for an attack on June 7 that targeted a police bus near Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. Eleven people were […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 13, 2016 Small arms imports by Middle East nations surged by 84 percent between 2012 and 2013, according to a new survey. The UAE and Saudi Arabia accounted for the largest budget increases, with Saudi tripling its import of small arms from $54 million in 2012 to $161 million a year […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2016 The Muslim terrorist who killed 50 people and wounded more than 50 more at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida on “Latin Night” had leanings to radical Islam, the FBI said on June 12. Authorities said the terrorist, Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, a U.S. citizen with Afghan ties, may […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2016 Militiamen allied with Libya’s UN-backed unity government captured the port of Sirte on June 11 as Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) jihadists barricaded themselves in the city center in anticipation of the Libyan forces’ advance. Libyan Brig. Gen. Mohammed al-Ghasri said ISIL has fallen back to a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2016 Syrian helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the town of Daraya on June 10 just hours after its starving residents began receiving food aid for the first time in nearly four years. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault accused the regime of President Bashar Assad of “extraordinary duplicity” as the airstrikes […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2016 The defense of Ammon Bundy and seven co-defendants in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff won a key victory on June 10 when a U.S. District Judge dismissed a key gun charge in the case. Judge Anna J. Brown dismissed Count 3 of the federal indictment, declaring that the […]
