This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency, SANA, on July 29, 2018, shows displaced Syrians returning to their villages in the provin

Damascus, July 31 (RHC)-- Syrian army troops have liberated yet another town in al-Yarmouk basin in the country’s southwestern province of Dara’a, further tightening the noose around the last remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the area. ... More


Palestinian resistance icon Ahed Tamimi freed.  Photo: AP

Ramallah, July 30 (RHC)-- Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi was released from Israeli custody on Sunday after nearly eight months of incarceration.... More


 Julian Assange faces deportation to the U.S.   Photo: Reuters

Quito, July 30 (RHC)-- Ecuador's former president Rafael Correa said in an interview with RT that Julian Assange’s days in the Ecuadorean embassy in London are numbered, a claim which contradicts the statements made by Ecudorean President Lenin Moreno last week. ... More


United Nations chief says UN running out of cash.  Photo: AFP

United Nations, July 30 (RHC)-- United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned that the world body is confronted with an unprecedented funding shortage for its core budget.  ... More


Ecuadorean social groups, international delegations defend UNASUR.   Photo: Logo UNASUR

Quito, July 30 (RHC)-- Social and political organizations held an international forum over the weekend in defense of the Union of South American countries (UNASUR), in Quito, Ecuador.... More


Children remain separated from parents at U.S.-Mexico border.   Photo: Reuters

Washington, July 30 (RHC)-- The Donald Trump administration may have deported up to 463 parents of children separated by immigration officials at the border, even as their children remain in U.S. custody.  ... More


Trump may shut down government if he doesn't get his wall.  Photo: AP

Washington, July 30 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to shut down the government if Congress doesn’t allocate $25 billion for the border wall.  ... More


Wildfires rage across U.S. state of California.  Photo: AFP

Sacramento, July 30 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, at least eight people have died as climate change-fueled wildfires rage statewide. ... More


Activist stops Afghan extradition flight in Sweden.  Photo: Facebook

Oslo, July 30 (RHC)-- In Sweden, a student activist halted an Afghan asylum seeker’s deportation back to Afghanistan by refusing to sit down on a flight, preventing the plane from taking off. ... More


Newspaper owner fires half of his staff.  Photo: AP

New York, July 30 (RHC)-- In the United States, the new owner of the New York Daily News says he will fire half the staff of the longtime newspaper.  ... More


New York, July 28 (RHC)-- In the U.S., nationwide protests have been held against Donald Trump’s so-called “zero tolerance” immigration policies. ... More


Tel Aviv, July 28 (RHC)-- Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi, who has been held in an Israeli prison for slapping a fully armed Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank town of Nabi Saleh, will be released this Sunday, a spokesman for the Israel Prisons Service told The Times of Israel.... More


London, July 28 (RHC)-- An online petition to provide WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange political asylum in New Zealand has been extended to August 7th. It reads that the “House of Representatives urges the Government to provide Julian Assange with permanent political asylum in New Zealand, including a guarantee of safe passage from the United Kingdom to New Zealand.”... More


Washington, July 28 (RHC)-- On Capitol Hill, a majority of House Democrats joined Republican to vote in favor of a massive, $717 billion military spending bill, the National Defense Authorization Act. ... More


Rabat, July 28 (RHC)-- In North Africa, about 800 migrants rushed a heavily fortified border separating Morocco from the tiny Spanish enclave of Ceuta, in a coordinated push to reach European soil, where they could apply for political asylum. ... More


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