Barcelona, August 8 (RHC)-- Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has returned to Spain after seven years of self-imposed exile and despite a pending warrant for his arrest.... More
New York, August 8 (RHC)-- The news outlet +972 has revealed the Israeli army has been using Amazon’s cloud services to store massive amounts of surveillance information on the population in Gaza. ... More
Washington, August 8 (RHC)-- The United States tries to protect Israel against Iran’s potential retaliatory strikes by dispatching several ship-based navy fighter jets to a base in West Asia, a U.S. official says.... More
Nagasaki, August 8 (RHC)-- Western ambassadors in Japan, including those from the United States and Britain, will boycott Japan’s annual peace memorial ceremony in Nagasaki since Israel was not invited. Japan holds a ceremony on Friday marking the 79th anniversary of the US bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.... More
Amid Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed nearly 39,700 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
Geneva, August 8 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is working on a campaign against polio in Gaza after the virus was detected there, but the continuing war presents multiple hurdles to the effort. While no clinical cases have been diagnosed so far, polio was detected in sewage in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis areas, WHO polio specialist Hamid Jafari said in a news conference on Wednesday.... More
Sydney, August 8 (RHC)-- Ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef have hit their highest level in 400 years over the past decade, researchers say, warning that the largest living ecosystem on Earth likely will not survive if planetary warming is not stopped.... More
Ankara, August 8 (RHC)-- Turkey has submitted a formal bid to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), a move that adds to the international pressure on the Israeli government to end its atrocities in Gaza.... More
Gaza City, August 8 (RHC)-- The Israeli military has issued new evacuation orders for Palestinians in northern Gaza, as Gaza City braces for a possible ground operation. On Wednesday, army spokesperson Avichay Adraee posted the evacuation orders for several districts in Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya, areas that were among the most affected by Israel’s ground invasion at the onset of the war 10 months ago.... More
Beirut, August 8 (RHC)-- The Palesintian resistance group Hamas has announced that Yahya Sinwar will become the new leader of the group’s political wing following Israel’s assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week.... More
St. Louis, August 8 (RHC)-- In St. Louis, Missouri, county prosecutor Wesley Bell has defeated Congressmember Cori Bush in a closely watched primary. ... More
San Francisco, August 8 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, a group of migrants jailed at two private Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers have relaunched a labor and hunger strike, protesting dire conditions and demanding fair wages for detained migrant workers. ... More
New York, August 7 (RHC)-- In the U.S. -- that self-proclaimed champion of human rights and freedom -- New York police have arrested Samuel Seligson, a local journalist, and charged him with felony hate crime charges after he filmed pro-Palestinian activists hurling red paint at the homes of top officials at the Brooklyn Museum. ... More
Madrid, August 7 (RHC)-- In Spain, climate activists spray-painted the mansion of Argentinean football star Lionel Messi on the island of Ibiza. ... More
United Nations, August 7 (RHC)-- High-ranking officials from the United Nations have made a formal appeal to the Security Council to seek assistance in facilitating humanitarian aid access in Sudan, emphasizing the need for aid to reach the affected areas in order to combat the famine that has emerged in at least one location in North Darfur.... More
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