The picture shows medics treating injured Palestinian protesters on the Gaza beach.  Photo: via social media

Gaza City, September 11 (RHC)-- The Israeli navy has opened fire on a group of Palestinian fishing boats that sailed off the shore of Gaza to break the years-long siege on the coastal enclave. ... More


 Diosdado Cabello Rondón is a Venezuelan politician, member of the National Assembly of Venezuela and a former Speaker of the country's legislature.  Photo: Pre

Caracas, September 11 (RHC)-- Diosdado Cabello, speaker of the ruling Constituent Assembly of Venezuela has asserted that the U.S. was behind the failed drone assassination of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on August 4th.... More


 Ahed Tamimi and her family banned by Israeli authorities from travel.  Photo: EFE

Ramallah, September 10 (RHC)-- Bassem Tamimi, the father of recently released Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, has confirmed that Israel has banned the Tamimi family from traveling abroad. According to Bassem, his family had planned to travel to Europe via Jordan but were unable to do so because of the travel ban. ... More


This undated video grab-shot purportedly shows U.S. Marines stationed in Syria firing artillery shells in an unknown area.  Photo: Press TV

Washington, September 10 (RHC)-- U.S. Marines stationed in Syria have reportedly fired air and artillery shots into a desert area in south to send Russian forces a warning.  The air assault in the southern Syrian desert backed by artillery fire aimed to send a strong message to Russia, two U.S. defense officials told Fox News over the weekend.  They said: The message we want to convey to Russia is to not send your forces inside a restricted area near an American military outpost in southern Syria.... More


The area in Mexico's central Veracruz where a mass grave containing 166 human skulls was found in August.  Photo: EFE

Mexico City, September 10 (RHC)-- Over the past 18 months, 696 bodies have been recovered from 163 clandestine mass graves in Mexico, according to a new report by the National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH). ... More


 The undated photo shows a teenage Palestinian girl who suffers from cancer at the Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem.  Photo: Press TV

Washington, September 10 (RHC)-- The United States has decided to cut off financial aid to East Jerusalem hospitals that provide cancer treatments and other critical care for Palestinians, amid warnings of the “collapse” of medical centers. ... More


Still photo shows suspected white phosphorus munitions raining down on the northern Syrian city of Raqqah in June 2017.  Photo: Via the New Arab

Moscow, September 10 (RHC)-- U.S. warplanes have reportedly dropped phosphorous bombs on a village in the eastern Syria province of Dayr al-Zawr.  Vladimir Savchenko, the chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria, announced the development on Sunday, Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency reported.... More


Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza attends the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, September 10, 2018.  Photo: Reuters

Geneva, September 10 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said Monday that "there is no humanitarian crisis in Venezuela," but rather an "economic crisis" as a consequence of the sanctions and the blockade exercised by sectors of the international political right against the South American nation.... More


Activists around the world rally to demand action on climate change.  Photo: Democracy Now

Paris, September 10 (RHC)-- Activists held hundreds of protests over the weekend in more than 90 countries as part of a worldwide day of action demanding urgent action to address climate change.... More


 Participants paraded to the General Cemetery where a memorial for victims of the 1970 coup was decorated with flowers.  Photo: EFE

Santiago de Chile, September 10 (RHC)-- Tens of thousands filled the streets of Santiago de Chile on Sunday during a march in solidarity with the victims from the Augusto Pinochet era, a 17-year dictatorship which began on September 11, 1973. ... More


Bob Woodward's new book is already a Best Seller.  Photo: Google

Washington, September 8 (RHC)-- A highly anticipated book by longtime Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward depicts the Trump administration as an out-of-control operation, with Chief of Staff John Kelly reportedly calling the White House a "crazytown."  ... More


Nearly 500 migrant children remain separated from their parents.  Photo: AFP

Washington, September 7 (RHC)-- In immigration news in the U.S., nearly 500 children remain separated from their parents, more than a month after a court-imposed deadline mandating the Donald Trump administration reunite all children immigration officials forcibly separated from their parents at the border. ... More


 U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.  Photo: AP

Washington, September 7 (RHC)-- In the U.S., on Capitol Hill, Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearing continues before the U.S. Senate.  Earlier, Kavanaugh was questioned for the first time by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.  He faced inquiries on gun control and acknowledged he has said some semi-automatic rifles cannot be banned. ... More


Unnamed Trump official cites "quiet resistance" within administration, gives Donald a headache.  Photo: Reuters

Washington, September 7 (RHC)-- In the United States, the White House is scrambling to ferret out disloyal members of President Donald Trump's inner circle, after the New York Times published an anonymous op-ed piece it says was written by a senior administration official claiming that a "quiet resistance" is underway seeking to constrain Trump's worst impulses.... More


Tel Aviv, September 7 (RHC)-- The Israeli army has admitted, for the first time, that it provided large amounts of cash, weapons and ammunition to foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists operating in the occupied Golan Heights.... More


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