by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2016 BP and Italy’s Eni have reported a gas discovery off the coast of Egypt that holds 70 to 80 billion cubic meters of gas. The discovery in the Baltim South West area is jointly owned by both companies, Eni said in a press release on June 9. “Baltim South […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2016 A Canadian scholar on gender issues and Islam was arrested on June 6 while visiting Iran. Homa Hoodfar, who teaches at Concordia University in Montreal, is at least the fifth dual-national detained in Iran in recent months, according to the New York-based International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2016 Hillary Clinton, in a June 8 interview with PBS, claimed no American lives were lost in the U.S. intervention in Libya and hinted that “pre-existing rivalries” were the primary cause of the chaos that followed. “After due diligence, we came up with a way of supporting their efforts that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com North Korea, that is the people who run the place, likes nothing better than endorsements from foreign visitors. The list of foreigners paying obeisance to the Kim regime, Kim Jong-Un and his father and grandfather before him, is quite long. The operator of a website in Los Angeles […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 A group of Yazidi girls who refused to become Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) sex slaves were locked in cages and burned alive, reports say. ISIL jihadists publicly executed the 19 Yazidi girls in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, according to the Kurdish ARA news […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 Rights groups are blasting the UN’s decision to remove Saudi Arabia from a blacklist of nations accused of harming children in armed conflict. “It appears that political power and diplomatic clout have been allowed to trump the UN’s duty to expose those responsible for the killing and maiming of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 Israeli warplanes struck a facility storing surface-to-air missiles near the Syrian city of Homs, a report said on June 7. If confirmed, the Israeli Air Force mission would be the first carried out in Syria under new Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman. According to Syrian website Zaman Al Wasl, which […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 Iraq’s advance on Fallujah has been delayed by strategy disagreements among the nation’s splintered forces. The Iraqi forces, having secured the southern edge of the city held by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), have been stalled for two days as commanders of elite counterterrorism special forces and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 Three Republican congressmen who voted against Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers have been denied visas by Teheran. Calling their request to monitor the nuclear deal a “publicity stunt,” Iran on June 7 said it would not grant visas to Reps. Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey, Mike Pompeo of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 7, 2016 Security forces in Jordan have arrested a suspect in the June 6 attack on a Palestinian refugee camp that killed five people, including three Jordanian intelligence officers. After a major manhunt, the suspect was tracked down and taken into custody following the attack at the Baqa’a camp, Jordanian state […]
