Ramallah, August 8 (RHC)-- Hundreds of Israeli settlers have stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of East Jerusalem al-Quds under the protection of security forces.... More


Boston, August 8 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Massachusetts, the Boston Police Department is under fire for destroying the wheelchairs of homeless residents as part of “Operation Clean Sweep,” a campaign targeting Boston’s poorest citizens. ... More


Kabul, August 8 (RHC)-- In Afghanistan, the Taliban has claimed responsibility for a massive bomb attack in the capital Kabul Wednesday that killed 14 people and injured 145 others. ... More


San Juan, August 8 (RHC)-- Puerto Rico’s former Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez has been sworn in as governor, becoming the third person to hold the office in less than a week.  This came just hours after the Puerto Rican Supreme Court overturned the swearing-in of Vázquez’s predecessor, Pedro Pierluisi. ... More


New York, August 8 (RHC)-- Amnesty International has issued a travel warning for visitors to the United States, citing the threat of gun violence. ... More


New York, August 8 (RHC)-- Fox News TV personality Tucker Carlson is under fire for insisting that white supremacy is a “hoax” and “not a real problem in America.”  Carlson made the remarks on his television program earlier this week. ... More


Atlanta, August 8 (RHC)-- In the United States, the Southern Poverty Law Center has linked a State Department employee to violent and hateful white nationalist messages posted online under a pseudonym. ... More


New York, August 8 (RHC)-- On the campaign trail in the United States, Democratic presidential candidates are linking Trump’s racist rhetoric to massacres by white nationalists in Texas, California and elsewhere. ... More


Neo-Nazis with Heil Hitler salute  (Photo: File)

El Paso, August 8 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Texas, El Paso police arrested a Trump supporter Wednesday as he sat outside an organizing space for immigrant activists, wearing blue latex gloves and brandishing a knife.... More


Jackon, August 8 (RHC)-- U.S. immigration authorities arrested nearly 700 people at seven food processing plants across Mississippi on Wednesday in what federal officials said could be the largest worksite ICE raid to ever happen in a single state.... More


La Paz, August 8 (RHC)-- Former Uruguayan president, Jose 'Pepe' Mujica, during his visit to Bolivia to help the Andean nation celebrate its 194 year of independence, affirmed his support for the re-election of incumbent Evo Morales.... More


Gaza City, August 8 (RHC)-- Israeli forces made deadly use of crowd control weapons against Palestinians attending the Great March of Return rallies including tear gas canisters which are not designed to hit people directly.... More


Dallas, August 8 (RHC)-- A series of new firearm laws will go into effect in the U.S. state of Texas next month, further loosening gun restrictions in a state that's had four of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history.... More


Caracas, August 8 (RHC)-- The Bolivarian Government of Venezuela has decided not to send its delegation to the dialogue meetings scheduled for this Thursday and Friday, August 8th and 9th, in Barbados.  ... More


Brasilia, August 8 (RHC)-- Brazil’s Supreme Court (STF) decided Wednesday afternoon to suspend a ruling rendered by Carolina Lebbos, the substitute judge of the 12th Federal Court of Curitiba, to transfer former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, from federal jail in Curitiba to a penitentiary in the state of Sao Paulo.... More


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