United Nations, March 1 (RHC)-- The United States has once again backed Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, blocking a UN Security Council statement that would have blamed the Israeli forces for killing Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in the besieged strip.... More


Tel Aviv, March 1 (RHC)-- Israel plans to seize hundreds of acres of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank to expand a settlement. It is viewed as one of the regime’s biggest land-grab schemes.  The regime’s authorities on Thursday appropriated several tracts of land near the settlement.  The territory would now be designated as part of the Maale Adumim settlement, east of al-Quds.... More


Kingstown, March 1 (RHC)--The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, arrived Thursday in St. Vincent and the Grenadines to participate in the VIII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).... More


Havana, March 1 (RHC) -- St. Vincent and the Grenadines today seals a year at the head of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) with the eighth summit of the bloc and the premise of leaving as a legacy a more inclusive mechanism.... More


Geneva, March 1 (RHC)-- "There appear to be no bounds to -- no words to capture -- the horrors that are unfolding before our eyes in Gaza," Volker Turk told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday.... More


Rafah, March 1 (RHC)-- Nearly five months into Israel's devastating onslaught on Gaza amid a muted response from the self proclaimed supporters of peace and human rights, Israel has launched a massive ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza while rendering the Palestinian territory uninhabitable.... More


Tehran, March 1 (RHC)-- Iran has lashed out at the U.S. and the Europeans for their silence over the “genocide” in Gaza, after Israeli forces fired on people on an aid convoy in Gaza City and killed more than 100 Palestinians on Thursday.... More


Ramallah, March 1 (RHC)-- Palestinian leaders and countries around the world have condemned Israel’s targeting of unarmed Palestinians collecting aid in Gaza, in an attack that has killed more than 100 people.... More


Geneva, March 1 (RHC)-- More than 120 individuals and organizations have demanded a UN investigation into Israel’s assaults on reporters in southern Lebanon.  The appeal, addressed to UN rights chief Volker Turk, expressed concern over Israel’s “apparent deliberate targeting of journalists and media workers in Lebanon.”... More


New York, February 29 (RHC)-- In New York City, activists are observing a 24-hour vigil in front of City Hall.  Participants are reading the names of the 30,000 Palestinians killed since October 7th. ... More


St. Louis, February 29 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Missouri, a Girl Scout troop has split from the organization after the group made legal threats against the girls for running a fundraiser benefiting Palestinian children. ... More


Chicago, February 29 (RHC)-- A judge in the U.S. state of Illinois has barred former President Donald Trump from appearing on Illinois’s Republican presidential primary ballot because of his role in the attack at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.... More


Damascus, February 29 (RHC)-- The Syrian military has eportedly confronted an Israeli airstrike on a suburb of the Arab country's capital of Damascus.    The act of aggression was carried out on Wednesday from the direction of the country's Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported, citing a military source.... More


San Francisco, February 29 (RHC)-- The city of San Francisco has issued a formal apology to Black residents for supporting policies that perpetuated decades of racism and discrimination. ... More


Oslo, February 29 (RHC)-- The head of a Norway-based NGO has been “shocked” after witnessing the catastrophic humanitarian conditions in Rafah in southern Gaza, caused by the Israeli regime’s months-long genocidal war on the besieged Palestinian territory.... More


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