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Turkey blames Istanbul attack on jihadists from ‘northern Caucasus countries’; One drawn to ISIL via Facebook

By World Tribune on July 5, 2016 Africa / Europe, BB Middle East, Exclusives, Mideast, Russia, Terrorism, Top Stories, Turkey, World Links, World Tribune

by WorldTribune Staff, July 5, 2016 Jihadists from the North Caucasus region and two former Soviet states were largely responsible for the attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport last week, Turkish officials said. “There are people from Dagestan, from Kyrgyzstan, from Tajikistan,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. “Unfortunately, people from neighboring northern Caucasus countries are […]

WORLD MATTERS: An Edmund Burke conservative in Europe protests Brexit ‘bigotry’ by U.S. conservatives

By World Tribune on July 1, 2016 Africa / Europe, Americas, BB Africa, Germany, Guest Columnists, Top Stories, U.S. Culture, U.S. Politics, Uwe Siemon-Netto

Special to WorldTribune.com By Uwe Siemon-Netto Of the half-billion people living in the European Union, 440 million are not British. These 440 million all live in functioning democracies. Most of those 27 countries are members of NATO, and therefore allies of the United States. And they sent soldiers to fight on the side of their […]

Syria’s Assad in interview claims secret coordination with U.S., hits ‘double standard’

By World Tribune on July 1, 2016 Africa / Europe, Australia, BB Middle East, Exclusives, Mideast, Russia, Stateside, Syria, Terrorism, Top Story, U.S. Military, World Links, World Tribune

by WorldTribune Staff, July 1, 2016 Syrian President Bashar Assad accused the United States and other Western nations of a “double standard” for secretly dealing with him while publicly criticizing him and calling for him to step down. “This is the double standard of the West in general: They attack us politically and they send […]

Brexit comes as a shock depending on which Brits you talk to

By World Tribune on June 30, 2016 Africa / Europe, BB Columnists, Columnists, Donald Kirk, EU, Exclusives, Great Britain, Top Stories

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON ― We’ve been reading for so long about Britain’s economic troubles, the social system and the culture intertwined with the country’s slow, not always graceful, decline, that the British exit from the European Union comes as less than a shock. Or if it is a shock, that’s because […]

The die is cast: Brexit will revive the ‘Special Relationship’ and sink the Eurocracy

By World Tribune on June 29, 2016 Africa / Europe, BB Africa, BB Columnists, Columnists, EU, Exclusives, Great Britain, NATO, Top Stories, U.S. Culture, U.S. Economy, U.S. Media, U.S. Politics, Washington

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Back in 1887 the famous poet and storyteller Oscar Wilde quipped: ‘We [English] have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’. We got another example of this malediction in the blah-blah-blah which has attended Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. What is most […]

Wave of the future? First robot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets without breaking a sweat

By World Tribune on June 28, 2016 Africa / Europe, BB Africa, Exclusives, Great Britain, Rest of The Best, Stateside, U.S. Culture, World Links, World Tribune

by WorldTribune Staff, June 28, 2016 A robot lawyer, working pro bono, has gotten 160,000 parking tickets overturned, saving thousands of people in New York and London an estimated $3.9 million. The free online chatbot laywer, called DoNotPay, is touted as the “world’s first robot lawyer.” It was launched 21 months ago by self-taught British […]

Britain ‘open for business’ as Cameron rules out second Brexit referendum

By World Tribune on June 27, 2016 Africa / Europe, BB Africa, EU, Exclusives, Great Britain, Rest of The Best, World Links, World Tribune

by WorldTribune Staff, June 27, 2016 No do-overs for Remain. UK Prime Minister David Cameron, in a blow to to the anti-Brexit crowd, insisted they will not get a mulligan on the June 23 vote in which Leave triumphed. A second referendum is “not remotely on the cards,” Cameron’s spokesman said on June 27, responding […]

Airstrikes by Russia and Syrian regime kill 58 civilians near ISIL-held Deir Ezzor

By World Tribune on June 26, 2016 Africa / Europe, BB Middle East, Exclusives, Hizbullah, Mideast, Rest of The Best, Russia, Syria, Terrorism, World Links, World Tribune

by WorldTribune Staff, June 26, 2016 Russian and Syrian warplanes pounded an area in eastern Syria held by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), killing at least 82 people, including 58 civilians, a monitoring group reported on June 26. “Three Russian and Syrian regime air raids on the region of Al-Quriyah, southeast of Deir […]

Brexit and the globalists: EU’s business model worked: Its power grab backfired

By World Tribune on June 24, 2016 Africa / Europe, BB Backgrounder, BB Top Stories, Dr. Jack Caravelli, Great Britain, Guest Columnists, Top Stories, UK

Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct Voters in the United Kingdom have chosen to leave the European Union by a 52-48 percent margin, making Great Britain the first nation to leave the EU. The turnout was large with over 70 percent of eligible voters going to the polls. The process of doing so […]

The British opt to pass their own laws, control their own borders

By World Tribune on June 24, 2016 Africa / Europe, BB Africa, EU, Exclusives, Great Britain, Top Story, UK, World Links, World Tribune

by WorldTribune Staff, June 24, 2016 Leave has won the EU referendum by 52 to 48 percent. The final tally was 17,410,742 for Leave and 16,141,241 for Remain, the highest turnout at a UK-wide vote since 1992. Tory MP Liam Fox, a Leave supporter, said voters had shown great “courage” by deciding to “change the […]