Washington, June 21 (RHC)-- The Israeli air defense systems were "caught off guard" by simple and low-tech drones used by Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement and its allies in the region, an American newspaper reports. ... More


Niamey, June 21 (RHC)-- Niger has canceled the operational permit of French nuclear fuel producer Orano at one of the largest uranium mines globally amid the African country's strained relations with the West.... More


Yerevan, June 21 (RHC)-- Armenia has announced its recognition of the State of Palestine, becoming the latest country to take the measure during the ruthless Israeli ground and aerial invasion of Gaza.... More


United Nations, June 21 (RHC)-- Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur for the right to food, has urged arms companies to “cease all arms exports to Israel now”.  “They are complicit in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide,” he wrote in a post on X.... More


Paris, June 21 (RHC)-- Anti-racism groups joined French unions and a new left-wing coalition in protests across France against the surging nationalist far right as frenzied campaigning is under way in advance of snap parliamentary elections.... More


United Nations, June 21 (RHC)-- The top United Nations human rights official has warned of the worsening situation for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the “unconscionable death and suffering” in the Gaza Strip.... More


United Nations, June 21 (RHC)-- James Elder, a spokesman for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has said that “we are all poorer” for Israel’s assault on Gaza and has described Israel’s relentless bombardment of the Palestinian territory as an attack on “our shared humanity”.... More


New York, June 21 (RHC)-- Leading shipping industry groups have called for action to halt Houthi attacks on vessels in the Red Sea after the sinking of a second ship.  The organizations condemned the incidents as a violation of freedom of navigation and said in a joint statement that it targets what they called  “innocent seafarers.”... More


Paris, June 21 (RHC)-- The French government has authorized the sale of electronic equipment for drones used by Israel to bomb civilians in the Gaza Strip, an investigative report says.  The French nonprofit media outlet Disclose said in a recent report that the export license for this war equipment “approved by the upper reaches of power” in the country.... More


Gaza City, June 21 (RHC)-- Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Palestinians in Gaza have told them that death is preferable to being wounded in Israel’s war on the territory because the injured “suffer so acutely due to the Israeli authorities’ blockade of lifesaving aid.”... More


United Nations, June 21 (RHC)-- Air pollution is the second leading risk factor for death globally, according to the fifth edition of the State of Global Air (SoGA) report, published by the Health Effects Institute (HEI), an independent non-profit research organization, in collaboration with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).... More


São Paulo, June 21 (RHC)-- The world-renowned linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky was discharged from a São Paulo hospital in Brazil, as he continues to recover from a stroke last year that impacted his ability to speak. ... More


Geneva, June 21 (RHC)-- The humanitarian crisis in southern Gaza is “quickly deteriorating” for tens of thousands of displaced people crammed into an area along Gaza’s coast amid “burning summer heat” and where “active conflict and lawlessness” are making it almost impossible for relief workers to meet the “soaring needs.”... More


Beirut, June 21 (RHC)-- A senior Hamas official says remarks by Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari on the impossibility of eliminating the Palestinian resistance group shows that the regime has failed in its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.... More


New York, June 21 (RHC)-- Four in five people want their countries to ramp up efforts in the fight against climate change, according to a United Nations survey billed as the largest yet on the issue.... More


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