Geneva, September 4 (RHC)-- The United Nations’ Children Fund (UNICEF) says even with a partial pause in hostilities in Gaza, polio vaccination of Palestinian children was among the most difficult and dangerous campaigns in the world.... More
Geneva, September 4 (RHC)-- An independent UN expert has warned that Israel's "genocidal violence" in Gaza risks spreading to the occupied West Bank and other parts of Palestine. In a statement released on Tuesday, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories, said Israel's recent intensification of military assaults in the West Bank marked "a dangerous escalation."... More
Gaza City, September 4 (RHC)-- The aid group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, has stressed that Israel’s strikes and decimation of Gaza's infrastructure were behind the polio outbreak in Gaza, calling for an immediate ceasefire in the besieged strip.... More
Tel Aviv, September 4 (RHC)-- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed back against pressure for him to do more to secure the release of Israelis held captive in the Gaza Strip after 11 months of fighting. Netanyahu is facing mass protests at home and pressure from United States President Joe Biden after Israeli forces at the weekend recovered the bodies of six captives, including 23-year-old American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin.... More
Oslo, September 4 (RHC)-- Sudan is facing “a starvation crisis of historic proportions” amid its civil war, three humanitarian groups have warned. The international community is failing “to address the immense hunger,” the Norwegian Refugee Council, the Danish Refugee Council, and Mercy Corps said in a joint statement on Tuesday.... More
Havana, September 4 (RHC) The Cuban ambassador to Sri Lanka, Andrés Garrido, and directors of the company Pharmaceuticals (Pvt) Ltd discussed cooperation with Cuban institutions in biotechnology and pharmacology.... More
Washington, September 4 (RHC)-- The U.S. government admits that it is "considering what actions to take against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro."... More
Havana, September 4 (RHC)-- The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) reports that its traditional International Campaign for Peace, Against the Blockade and Terrorism begins Wednesday at the Copacabana Hotel, with the evocation of the young Italian Fabio Di Celmo, victim of a terrorist act on September 4, 1997, in that Havana tourist facility.... More
Caracas, September 4 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Transport Minister Ramón Velásquez Araguayán reported on Tuesday that an act of sabotage was carried out at the Libertador Simón Bolívar station of the Ezequiel Zamora I Railway System, located in La Rinconada, where a fire broke out that was controlled by the Caracas Fire Department.... More
Caracas, September 4 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López warns that a coup against the South American nation is still underway in the context of the post-presidential elections on July 28th, in which Nicolás Maduro was re-elected.... More
Tegucigalpa, September 4 (RHC)-- Honduran President Xiomara Castro says that her government condemns all forms of negotiations between drug traffickers and politicians. She also confirmed that the peace and internal security of the Republic is at risk and stated that a new coup d’état is being planned which the people will repel.... More
Dozens reported killed, injured and arrested as Israeli forces continue to attack Jenin and Tulkarem refugee camps.... More
Tel Aviv, September 4 (RHC)-- Anger is rising in Tel Aviv amid the failed Gaza truce talks, with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing mounting domestic and international pressure after the killing of six captives in Israeli attacks. And U.S. President Joe Biden now says Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure the release of captives.... More
Izmir, September 4 (RHC)-- Turkish citizens have taken to the streets in Izmir to demonstrate against the docking of an American warship, expressing solidarity with Palestinians and their opposition to US all-out military support for Israel amid the Gaza genocide.... More
Gaza City, September 3 (RHC)-- Israel continues to commit more massacres against Palestinians in Gaza, as its genocidal war on the besieged strip continues unabated. Palestinian media reports said dozens of people were killed and injured in Israeli air and artillery strikes that hit residential buildings, tents sheltering displaced people and streets across Gaza on Tuesday.... More
