by WorldTribune Staff, February 18, 2019 A British teen mother who as a 15-year-old traveled to Syria to become an ISIS bride is seeking to return to the UK and said “a lot of people should have sympathy” for her. Shamima Begum, 19, who recently gave birth to a baby boy in a Syrian refugee […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2019 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned European signatories of the Iran nuclear deal not to break their obligations after U.S. Vice President Mike Pence had called on Germany, France and Great Britain to withdraw from the deal. One day earlier, Pence visited the site of the Auschwitz concentration […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 15, 2019 Iranian leaders are saying the United States and its Middle East allies are responsible for a Feb. 13 suicide bombing which killed 27 members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). “The crime will remain as a ‘dirty stain’ in the black record of the main supporters of terrorism […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 14, 2019 Two-thirds of the 180 countries surveyed in the Transparency International (TI) 2018 global corruption index were rated as corrupt. The failure to curb corruption is “contributing to a worldwide crisis of democracy,” TI says. The 2018 research shows “a disturbing link between corruption and the health of democracies, where […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 13, 2019 A notorious Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist from Indonesia, who was filmed beheading a Western hostage in 2016, was killed in a battle with U.S.-backed forces amid the terror organization’s last stand in Syria, reports say. Muhammad Saifuddin was killed in eastern Deir Ezzor province on Jan. 29 when he […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 13, 2019 Some 80 percent of priests working at the Vatican are homosexual and the more homophobic a cleric was, the more likely he was to be gay, according to the new book “In the Closet of the Vatican”. The book by French journalist and author Frederic Martel unveils “a clerical […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 12, 2019 The Iranian regime should make the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution count, because there might not be many more such celebrations, U.S. national security adviser John Bolton warned. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said last week that the slogan “Death to America”, which Iranians regularly shout at rallies, is […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 10, 2019 A British woman was arrested in her home in front of her two young children on charges of calling a woman transgender activist by her former male name – or “deadnaming” – in a Twitter argument. In comments posted to the Mumsnet online forum, Kate Scottow of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 10, 2019 Iran’s “Death to America” chants are aimed at President Donald Trump and the U.S.’s other “rulers,” and will continue to be used at state-organized rallies and events, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. ” ‘Death to America’ means death to Trump, [national security adviser] John Bolton, and [Secretary […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 8, 2019 U.S. envoy Steve Biegun led an American delegation that arrived in Pyongyang on Feb. 6 for denuclearization talks with North Korean counterpart Kim Hyok-Chol. The U.S. delegation’s arrival in North Korea was one of a flurry of region-wide diplomatic moves ahead of a second summit between President Donald Trump […]
