Manila, February 8 (RHC)-- Thousands of people have been displaced after a huge fire ripped through a crowded shantytown in the Philippine capital, Manila. ... More
London, February 7 (RHC)-- British Prime Minister Theresa May has reaffirmed her support for the Iran nuclear deal, defying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pressure to violate the multilateral agreement by imposing new sanctions against the Islamic Republic. ... More
Tokyo, February 7 (RHC)-- Japanese police have scuffled for the second day in a row with protesters demonstrating against the relocation of a U.S. military base on the southern island of Okinawa. ... More
an Salvador, February 7 (RHC)-- The movement against destructive mining activity in El Salvador has received a boost as leaders of the Catholic church in the Central American country presented a bill in Congress aimed at blocking mining and protecting citizens from “serious contamination.” ... More
London, February 7 (RHC)-- Marking the one year anniversary of the U.N.’s ruling that he was arbitrarily detained and must be freed, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks Julian Assange called on Sweden and the United Kingdom to abide by the decision... More
Ramallah, February 7 (RHC)-- The Palestine Liberation Organization, the PLO, says Israel’s newly approved law legalizing Jewish settler outposts actually legalizes the “theft” of private Palestinian land. ... More
Paris, February 7 (RHC)-- Clashes have erupted between protesters and police in a suburban Paris neighborhood as hundreds rallied to protest police brutality after a Black youth was allegedly sodomized with a baton following his arrest. ... More
Washington, February 6 (RHC)-- In the United States, a judicial showdown is expected as courts have temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order banning people from seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the United States. ... More
Berlin, February 6 (RHC)-- A German official says next month Berlin will begin returning newly-arrived refugees from Greece to their first landing location in the European Union.... More
United Nations, February 6 (RHC)-- World food prices rose to a near two-year high in January and look set to be higher and more volatile in 2017, according to the United Nations food agency -- the Food and Agriculture Organization, the FAO. ... More
New York, February 6 (RHC)-- The Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio has said that the media had been building "preconditions" for many years for U.S. President Donald Trump to win last November's presidential elections. ... More
Washington, February 6 (RHC)-- A former top aide to Donald Trump says the president will "definitely" pull out of the Paris climate deal. ... More
Rome, February 6 (RHC)-- More than 181,000 migrants arrived in Italy by boat in 2016, an increase of almost 18 percent compared with 2015. ... More
Washington, February 6 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has appointed Thomas Homan to be the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. ... More
United Nations, February 4 (RHC)-- United Nations human rights experts say that U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban on nationals from seven Muslim-majority states contravenes international law and could lead to people denied asylum being sent home to face torture.... More
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