Caracas, August 16 (RHC)-- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, in meeting with a group of Venezuelan entrepreneurs, stressed this Thursday that the real economy of the country is growing and said that in the first half of 2024 increased.... More


Buenos Aires, August 16 (RHC)-- The Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity (REDH) - Argentina Chapter on Thursday described as offensive the proposal of the presidents of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to institute a “transitory cohabitation government and new free elections” in Venezuela.... More


Caracas, August 16 (RHC)-- The president of the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), Caryslia Rodríguez Rodríguez, reported on Thursday that the National Electoral Council began to examine the electoral material used in the presidential elections held on July 28.... More


Ramallah, August 16 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have shot at point-blank three Palestinians, including a 17-year-old boy, who had been severely injured in an earlier drone strike in the northern occupied West Bank.... More


United Nations, August 16 (RHC)-- Israeli settlers kidnapped and abused two 15-year-old Palestinian boys in the occupied West Bank earlier this week, the UN says.   In a “Humanitarian Situation Update” on Thursday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the boys were assaulted as they were herding sheep around the suburb of Irtas south of Bethlehem on August 12. ... More


New York, August 16 (RHC)-- It was an abrupt departure for one of the Ivy League’s most embattled leaders: On Wednesday evening, Columbia University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik announced she would resign, effective immediately.... More


Tehran, August 16 (RHC)-- Former Iranian diplomat Amir al-Mousawi reported on Wednesday, in an interview with the Arab media Al Mayadeen, that his nation has received threats of a nuclear attack... More


Caracas, August 15 (RHC)-- The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello denounced this Thursday that the extreme right opposition is conceiving a plan to generate new violent events in the country on Saturday, August 17th.... More


Amid Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians so far, the majority of them children, resistance groups in Palestine and across the region continue their operations against the Tel Aviv regime and its Western backers.... More


Beirut, August 15 (RHC)-- The Lebanese Health Ministry says the death toll from Israeli strikes on towns and villages in the southern part of the country following the onset of a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip now stands at nearly 550.... More


New York, August 15 (RHC)-- The embattled president of Columbia University has stepped down after just one year on the job.  Minouche Shafik’s resignation comes in the wake of her widely condemned crackdown on campus protests against the war on Gaza, during which she called in the NYPD to violently clear tents and arrest scores of peaceful student protesters. ... More


Ankara, August 15 (RHC)-- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has promised to go to the besieged Gaza Strip, saying he will stand by the Palestinian people even if it costs him his life.... More


Chicago, August 15 (RHC)-- In the U.S., five University of Chicago graduates who participated in Palestinian rights protests finally received their diplomas more than two months after graduation.  ... More


Gaza City, August 15 (RHC)-- Israel has now killed over 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7th last year, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. ... More


Gaza City, August 15 (RHC)-- The overall death toll from the Israeli-U.S. campaign of death, destruction and genocide in Gaza has surpassed the grim milestone of 40,000, the Gaza Health Ministry says.... More


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