France first: Le Pen sides with Trump and Brexit against globalization, militant Islam

France first: Le Pen sides with Trump and Brexit against globalization, militant Islam

by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2017 A France enslaved to the European Union risks losing its identity to globalism and Islamic fundamentalism, National Front party candidate Marine Le Pen said on Feb. 5 as she formally launched her presidential campaign. “There will be no other laws and values in France but French,” Le Pen said. […]

White House warns Iran to ‘think twice’ before testing U.S. resolve

White House warns Iran to ‘think twice’ before testing U.S. resolve

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has warned Iran “not to test the resolve” of the Donald Trump administration days after the U.S. imposed new sanctions on the Islamic republic over a ballistic-missile test. Pence made the warning in a Feb. 5 interview amid rising tensions between […]

List of shame: Here are the Republicans who took Soros funding

List of shame: Here are the Republicans who took Soros funding

by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2017 Leftist billionaire George Soros poured millions of dollars into Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential bid and generously padded the campaign coffers of many Democratic Party candidates in 2016. Soros’s donations to GOP candidates, however, have mostly flown under the radar. Soros gave $202,700 to Republican presidential candidate John Kasich, making […]

Average Americans impressed with Trump’s first two weeks in office

Average Americans impressed with Trump’s first two weeks in office

by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2017 President Donald Trump’s quick action on immigration, the economy and the Supreme Court is playing well with the people who put him in the Oval Office, if not his elitist critics. “I am really impressed with all the things he is doing already; they are all the things he talked […]

Left was all a-twitter over anti-Trump Super Bowl commercial

Left was all a-twitter over anti-Trump Super Bowl commercial

by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2017 While Tom Brady was engineering one of the great comebacks in Super Bowl history, the Twitterverse lit up over a commercial by Airbnb that many saw as a shot at President Donald Trump. The ad by Airbnb, an online network and app that helps people list and rent lodging, […]

Reports: Houthi missile hits military base near Saudi capital

Reports: Houthi missile hits military base near Saudi capital

by WorldTribune Staff, February 6, 2017 A surface-to-surface missile launched by Iran-backed Houthi rebels hit a Saudi military camp near Riyadh on Feb. 5, according to regional news reports. The Saudi Ministry of Defense has not commented on the incident, but a number of local citizens reported on Twitter that the missile hit a military camp in […]

Trump’s travel ban finds wide support in the Middle East

Trump’s travel ban finds wide support in the Middle East

by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2017 Middle East countries, which deal with the threat of terrorism on a 24/7 basis, are widely backing U.S. President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations. Mideast governments who are dealing with the consequences of former President Barack Obama’s “fecklessness … want the United States […]

Mattis slams Iran as ‘single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world’

Mattis slams Iran as ‘single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world’

by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2017 Iran’s “misconduct and misbehavior” must be addressed, U.S. Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis said on Feb. 4, a day after the U.S. slapped a new set of sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Mattis, who described Iran as “the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world,” was […]

U.S. Amb. Nikki Haley in debut hits Russia on Ukraine, Europe’s forgotten conflict

U.S. Amb. Nikki Haley in debut hits Russia on Ukraine, Europe’s forgotten conflict

By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The rumble of artillery and the cracks of Kalashnikovs shatter the Winter chill. The refugees, the displaced and the injured have become part of the broken landscape which reflects the agony of previous battles. Yet the wider silence is broken by the unwavering voices who remind us that […]

Mideast passengers scramble to enter U.S. after judge overturns travel ban

Mideast passengers scramble to enter U.S. after judge overturns travel ban

by WorldTribune Staff, February 5, 2017 Thousands of travelers from the Mideast are rushing to enter the United States after a Seattle judge lifted President Donald Trump’s travel ban for citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The Trump administration has suspended the ban’s enforcement in compliance with the Feb. 3 order […]