Gaza City, March 8 (RHC)-- Fighters with the Gaza Strip-based resistance movement of Hamas announce attacking an Israeli command center in the northern part of the coastal sliver, and killing as many as seven Israeli forces elsewhere across the Palestinian territory.... More


New York, March 8 (RHC)-- Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been found guilty in a New York federal courtroom of participating in a scheme to ship cocaine through his country and into the United States.... More


Gaza City, March 8 (RHC)-- Five people were killed and several injured after a parachute landing a humanitarian airdrop failed to open, bringing a pallet crashing down into a crowd of people waiting for food north of Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp.... More


United Nations, March 8 (RHC)-- Iran's Permanent Mission to the United Nations has called for the ouster of Israel from the United Nations women’s rights body, citing the regime's killing of thousands of Palestinian women in relentless strikes against the Gaza Strip.... More


Washington, March 8 (RHC)-- Hundreds of protesters in Washington, DC blockaded roads outside the White House and near the Capitol Thursday evening, delaying U.S. President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech. ... More


Ramallah, March 8 (RHC)-- United Nations experts are calling for a probe into reports of sexual assault, torture and killing of Palestinian women prisoners by Israeli forces.  The Palestinian Prisoner Society says an estimated 240 Palestinian women have been detained since October 7th.  ... More


Geneva, March 8 (RHC)-- Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories have expanded by a record amount and risk eliminating any practical possibility of a Palestinian state, the United Nations rights chief warns.... More


Gaza City, March 8 (RHC)-- As the world marks International Women's Day, the government media office in Gaza has mourned 8,900 Palestinian women killed by Israel since October amid the silence of the international community.... More


Washington, March 8 (RHC)-- In Washington, DC Thursday night, protests took place both inside and outside the Capitol as U.S. President Joe Biden delivered his annual State of the Union address.... More


Rafah, March 8 (RHC)-- An international aid organization says many women in the Gaza Strip, which is enduring a genocidal Israeli war and siege, are giving birth to stillborn children as famine stalks the territory.  "There are many operations that have been performed, like caesarean sections to remove fetuses, [which] died due to malnutrition among women," ActionAid International said in a statement on Thursday.... More


London, March 8 (RHC)-- UK news chiefs have defended their biased coverage of Israel’s brutalities in Gaza even as a new report has exposed significant distortions in the Western coverage of the war.  The report, Media Bias Gaza 2023-24, by Center for Media Monitoring (CFMM) was launched on Wednesday and analyzed data from 28 UK online media websites for a period of one month starting from October 7, 2023.... More


Miami, March 8 (RHC)-- The Miami Herald is reporting the Joe Biden administration is pressuring Haiti’s unelected Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign amid an armed uprising against his rule. ... More


Geneva, March 8 (RHC)-- The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) says the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has displayed a “clear double standard” in dealing with the crimes of Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza.... More


New York, March 8 (RHC)-- Ocean temperatures hit a record high last month, which was also the warmest February on record globally, scientists in the European Union have said.  The average global sea surface temperature stood at 21.06 degrees Celsius (69.91 degrees Fahrenheit) in February, surpassing the previous record of 20.98C (69.77F) set in August 2023, in a dataset that goes back to 1979, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday.... More


Cairo, March 7 (RHC)-- News reports from Cairo say that Tel Aviv has thwarted all efforts by mediators to reach a ceasefire agreement in the besieged Gaza Strip.... More


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