Paris, August 1 (RHC)-- The government of France has formally recognized Morocco’s claims of sovereignty over the northwest African territory of Western Sahara.... More
Tel Aviv, July 31 (RHC)-- In Israel, a group of far-right protesters, including at least one member of the Knesset, broke into two Israeli military bases in an effort to prevent Israeli military police from detaining nine soldiers suspected of torturing Palestinian prisoners.... More
Ramallah, July 31 (RHC)-- Thousands of people have marched across the occupied West Bank as well as in Lebanon and Iran to protest against the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.... More
Khan Younis, July 31 (RHC)-- Palestinian rescue workers in the Gaza Strip have collected dozens of bodies from the ruins of Khan Younis after Israeli forces devastated the city during an eight-day ground assault. ... More
Washington, July 31 (RHC)-- In Washington, D.C., dozens of interfaith activists on Tuesday disrupted a gathering on Capitol Hill by members of the lobby group Christians United for Israel — one of the largest pro-Israel organizations in the U.S. with some 11 million members. ... More
Chicago, July 31 (RHC)-- Members of the National Association of Black Journalists are protesting their organization’s decision to invite Donald Trump to the stage when the NABJ holds its annual convention and career fair in Chicago today. ... More
Miami, July 31 (RHC)-- Prisoners in the U.S. state of Florida at the largest federal prison complex in the United States announced that they have launched a hunger strike to demand external intervention to address health and safety violations, abuse of power by guards, and denied visits.... More
Washington, July 31 (RHC)-- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) advocacy group says discrimination and attacks against Muslims and Palestinians in the US increased by about 70% in the first half of 2024, amid Washington’s unwavering support for Israel's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.... More
Geneva, July 31 (RHC)-- Israel has detained thousands of Palestinians during the war in Gaza and stands accused of numerous cases of torture, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says in a new report.... More
Caracas, July 31 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab has provided an update on the acts of violence that occurred on Monday in Venezuela, a day after the presidential elections in which President Nicolas Maduro received 51 percent of the votes.... More
Caracas, July 31 (RHC)-- The Government of Venezuela, through its Foreign Minister Yván Gil, made the decision to break ties with Peru, after the Peruvian authorities questioned the recent results of the presidential elections.... More
Ramallah, July 31 (RHC)-- Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Iran’s capital Tehran. His death has been confirmed in separate statements by the Palestinian group that runs the Gaza Strip and Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.... More
Tehran, July 31 (RHC)-- Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, has been killed in an attack in the Iranian capital, Tehran.... More
Beirut, July 31 (RHC)-- A large explosion ripped through a southern suburb in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, as the Israeli military carried out a targeted strike against a senior Hezbollah commander, who survived the attack.... More
Gaza City, July 31 (RHC)-- A human rights organization has warned that over one million children in Gaza are at risk of dying if not vaccinated amid Israel's “weaponization” of sanitation facilities, which has led to the classification of the region as a "polio epidemic zone."... More
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