Arab states split with Qatar citing its ties with Iran, terrorism

Arab states split with Qatar citing its ties with Iran, terrorism

by WorldTribune Staff, June 5, 2017 Four Sunni Arab states have severed ties with Qatar over its close ties with Iran and terrorism. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain on June 5 announced they would break diplomatic ties with Qatar, Arutz Sheva reported. Saudi Arabia accused Qatar of supporting “multiple terrorist and […]

Settled science: Growing petition of 31,487 U.S. scientists reject global warming hypothesis

Settled science: Growing petition of 31,487 U.S. scientists reject global warming hypothesis

by WorldTribune Staff, June 5, 2017 Several of the U.S.’s top climatologists and at least two Nobel Prize winning physicists are among some 30,000 U.S. scientists to have signed a petition saying that “the human-caused global warming hypothesis is without scientific validity.” The “Global Warming Petition Project” has 31,487 signers and is growing. The petition […]

When push comes to shove: Montenegro joins NATO

When push comes to shove: Montenegro joins NATO

by WorldTribune Staff, June 5, 2017 Moscow had long attempted to derail Montenegro’s entrance into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), but those attempts came to a crashing halt on June 5 when the tiny Balkan nation became the alliance’s 29th member. With the former Yugoslav republic now in the fold, NATO controls the entire […]

ISIS gives up town in northern Iraq that was a known hideout of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

ISIS gives up town in northern Iraq that was a known hideout of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

by WorldTribune Staff, June 5, 2017 The Islamic State (ISIS) caliphate continues to crumble in Iraq with the surrender of the town of Baaj. ISIS’s withdrawal from Baaj leaves just a pocket of Mosul and the town of Bukamal as the only remaining urban centers in the country under the terror group’s control. Bukamal is […]

Russia tests hypersonic missile it says is impervious to U.S. missile defense systems

Russia tests hypersonic missile it says is impervious to U.S. missile defense systems

by WorldTribune Staff, June 5, 2017 Russia has conducted the first test of a hypersonic missile it claims can fly at 6 times the speed of sound and makes U.S. missile defense systems obsolete. Military analyst Vladimir Tuchkov told government-controlled news agency Sputnik: “It (the Zircon missile system) is expected to be added into Russia’s arsenal […]

‘Enough is enough’: Trump responds to London Bridge terror attack with a call for action

‘Enough is enough’: Trump responds to London Bridge terror attack with a call for action

by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2017 UK Prime Minister Theresa May said the nation’s counterterrorism strategy will be reviewed and U.S. President Donald Trump said it’s time to ditch political correctness “and get down to the business of security” after the London Bridge terror attack. May said it is time to say “enough is enough” […]

UK’s May: Tech firms allow ‘safe spaces’ for terrorists to ‘breed’

UK’s May: Tech firms allow ‘safe spaces’ for terrorists to ‘breed’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2017 Technology firms are allowing Islamic extremism “the safe space it needs to breed” online and the international community must step in to regulate the Internet, UK Prime Minister Theresa May said after terrorists killed seven people and injured dozens more in the June 3 London Bridge terror attack. May […]

The human touch: Kellyanne Conway explains key to Trump’s major N.C. win

The human touch: Kellyanne Conway explains key to Trump’s major N.C. win

by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2017 It was Donald Trump’s personal impact, fueled by campaign rallies rather than ubiquitous TV ads, that inspired the “forgotten man and the forgotten woman” to give Trump a key victory in the swing state of North Carolina, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said. “We literally could not have won North […]

Ted Cruz corrects tenured Harvard prof on the subject of America’s founding

Ted Cruz corrects tenured Harvard prof on the subject of America’s founding

by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2017 American Patriots won the Revolutionary War and the Second Continental Congress declared the United States of America a new, independent nation. That’s not how the USA was created, though, according to a professor of American Studies at Harvard. Joyce Chaplin, responding to President Donald Trump pulling the U.S. out […]

Al Gore poppycock: Rise of sea levels called ‘greatest lie ever told’

Al Gore poppycock: Rise of sea levels called ‘greatest lie ever told’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 4, 2017 Researchers are now predicting that sea levels could rise nearly twice as much as previously thought by the year 2100 – with man being the culprit due to unabated emissions of carbon dioxide. Christopher Booker, a columnist for the UK’s Telegraph, contends that the prediction of a catastrophic rise […]