Wonder Woman premier set for Lebanon as Beirut plans ban over Israeli lead actress

Wonder Woman premier set for Lebanon as Beirut plans ban over Israeli lead actress

by WorldTribune Staff, May 31, 2017 Wonder Woman’s invisible jet isn’t in the first installment of the action hero film series, but she may need it to fly over Lebanon. The country, that is officially at war with Israel and has a law banning Israeli products, is seeking to ban Wonder Woman from its movie […]

Escape from New York City: Secessionist movement seeks rare constitutional convention

Escape from New York City: Secessionist movement seeks rare constitutional convention

by WorldTribune Staff, May 31, 2017 Every 20 years, New York voters have the opportunity to call for a constitutional convention. Upstate supporters of a movement to break away from New York City hope to use that opportunity to get a secession vote on the ballot. Voters will decide this November whether to hold a […]

Trump’s break with G7 climate consensus caused melt-down in polite society

Trump’s break with G7 climate consensus caused melt-down in polite society

by WorldTribune Staff, May 30, 2017 At the Group of 7 (G7) summit, agreeing to disagree on shared convictions so strongly-held that they approach religious fervor is not an option. It is simply not cool. Therefore, when U.S. President Donald Trump broke ranks on the Paris Agreement climate accord over the weekend at G7, sophisticates […]

A world of unreported news

A world of unreported news

Special to WorldTribune.com The following was originally published on , April 5, 1998 Robert Morton, The Washington Times Does foreign news still matter now that there is no apparent Soviet threat to U.S. national security? Should Americans debate the implications of the famine in North Korea’s totalitarian never-never land, the proliferation of nuclear weapons fueled […]

Leftist in the Blue House in Seoul, but North Korea is still not happy

Leftist in the Blue House in Seoul, but North Korea is still not happy

by WorldTribune Staff, May 30, 2017 North Korea expressed outrage that the new leftist government in South Korea is considering continuing a unification panel set up by former President Park Geun-Hye, based in part on plans adopted for the reuniting of East and West Germany. On May 22, an official with the newly launched government […]

As Trump returns, McCain embarks on overseas apology tour

As Trump returns, McCain embarks on overseas apology tour

by WorldTribune Staff, May 30, 2017 The 2008 GOP candidate who lost to a two-term U.S. president known for expressing regrets about his country while abroad has gone down under to apologize for Barack Obama’s Republican succcessor. Sen. John McCain, in a May 30 speech in Sydney, Australia, said President Donald Trump had unsettled some […]

Guilt by innuendo: The conviction of Mike Flynn without jury, or indictment

Guilt by innuendo: The conviction of Mike Flynn without jury, or indictment

by WorldTribune Staff, May 30, 2017 Mike Flynn has not been indicted, has not gone to trial and no one has presented any evidence of wrongdoing against the former national security adviser. Jokes and innuendo. That’s all the various pundits, late night talk show hosts, former officials and assorted Trump-haters have, Eli Lake wrote in […]

Egypt launches airstrikes in Libya to answer attack on Christians

Egypt launches airstrikes in Libya to answer attack on Christians

by WorldTribune Staff, May 30, 2017 Egyptian jets hit the Libyan city of Derna on May 29 in attacks targeting terrorists in response to an ambush that killed 29 Egyptian Christians last week. Libyan operational commander Brig. Abdulsalam Al-Hasi told Reuters the strikes targeted Majlis Mujahideen Derna and Abu Salim brigade, two local Libyan groups […]

Trump triumphant on first foreign tour to the disappointment of his many enemies back home

Trump triumphant on first foreign tour to the disappointment of his many enemies back home

Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey Donald Trump may be his own worst enemy, but he has a great many others. The entire Democratic Party, the professoriat, the talking heads, the professional leftists and almost the entire media in the U.S. loath him and in cooperation with the “deep state” of career bureaucrats and Obama […]

U.S. lawmakers say Iran eyes military base near Syria-Israel border

U.S. lawmakers say Iran eyes military base near Syria-Israel border

by WorldTribune Staff, May 26, 2017 Iran is looking to establish a permanent military presence in Syria and is eyeing a potential base near the Syrian border with Israel or Jordan, two U.S. lawmakers said. “A permanent Iranian military base in Syria … would increase Iran’s operational capacity to inflict serious damage against two of […]