Cairo, April 19 (RHC)-- The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has slammed the United States for blocking Palestine’s request for full membership in the United Nations, amid a genocidal Israeli war on Gaza.... More


Tehran, April 19 (RHC)-- Officials say Iran's air defense systems fired at suspicious objects in Isfahan and Tabriz early Friday.  The sound of explosions have been heard near the central Iranian city of Isfahan and Tabriz in the country's northwest after air defense systems fired at "suspicious objects" early Friday. ... More


Damascus, April 19 (RHC)-- Israeli military aircraft have reportedly carried out a string of airstrikes against positions in Syria’s southwestern provinces of Daraa and As-Suwayda as well as neighboring Iraq.... More


Tehran, April 19 (RHC)-- Explosions have been heard near the central Iranian city of Isfahan due to the activation of air defenses, informed sources say.... More


Cairo, April 19 (RHC)-- Egyptian officials have told a Qatari outlet that the U.S. has accepted Israel’s plan for an operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, in return for not carrying out a large strike in Iran in response to Tehran’s unprecedented missile and drone attack.... More


Tel Aviv, April 19 (RHC)-- Itamar Ben Gvir, a notorious far-right Israeli minister, has called for the execution of Palestinian prisoners to ease overcrowding in the jails.  The minister said in a social media post on Thursday that applying the death penalty to Palestinian detainees was the “right” solution to tackle the problem of prison overcrowding.... More


The Hague, April 19 (RHC)-- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has announced that hearings are scheduled for April 30th and May 1st, where the lawsuit of Mexico against Ecuador, for the assault on its embassy in Quito, will be tried.... More


New York, April 18 (RHC)-- New York City police have forcibly removed a protest encampment at Columbia University and arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including Isra Hirsi, the daughter of prominent U.S. congresswoman Ilhan Omar.... More


Sunnyvale, April 18 (RHC)-- Google has fired 28 employees who protested its $1.2 billion contract with Israel. Project Nimbus provides computing services to the Israeli military.  This comes after peaceful sit-ins this week by Google workers at their New York City and Sunnyvale, California, offices, which resulted in nine arrests. ... More


United Nations, April 18 (RHC)-- The United States has predictably cast its veto against a bid by the Palestinian Authority (PA) for Palestine to be recognized as a full member of the United Nations.... More


Quagadougou, April 18 (RHC)-- Burkina Faso has ordered three French diplomats to leave the coup-hit country within two days over “subversive activities”, a year after the junta ruling the African nation cut off ties with France, the landlocked country’s former colonial ruler.... More


Gaza City, April 18 (RHC)-- The medical crisis in Gaza's hospitals, or what remains of them, is catastrophic. Hospitals can barely treat patients, and staff don't have the equipment, medicine or even beds necessary to take care of Palestinians in the enclave, who are struggling to survive under relentless Israeli bombing.... More


Caracas, April 18 (RHC)-- Representatives of countries that make up the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), social movements and intellectuals attended this Thursday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, at the beginning of the Meeting for a World Social Alternative.... More


Geneva, April 18 (RHC)-- The United Nations refugee agency UNRWA has accused Israeli security forces of torturing imprisoned UN workers in an effort to extract false confessions about the agency’s ties to Hamas. ... More


Gaza City, April 18 (RHC)-- A 13-year-old Palestinian boy who survived an Israeli airstrike on his home in November has now died after being hit in the head with a package that was being dropped from the sky. ... More


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