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

London, February 29 (RHC)-- “What we are witnessing in Gaza right now is the mass killing of children in slow motion,” says Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy and advocacy at Save the Children International.... More

Geneva, February 29 (RHC)-- Israeli troops continue to sexually assault the Palestinian women they abduct as part of a larger vicious campaign to dehumanize all the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, especially women and children, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says.... More

London, February 29 (RHC)-- On February 20 and 21, as hundreds of Julian Assange’s supporters gathered outside the London courthouse, a two-judge panel of the High Court of Justice presided over a “permission hearing.”  Assange’s lawyers asked the judges to allow them to appeal the home secretary’s extradition order and raise issues that the district court judge had rejected without full consideration.... More

United Nations, February 28 (RHC)-- Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations says an alternative draft resolution Washington has proposed on the situation in the besieged Gaza Strip simply paves the way for more Palestinian civilian deaths.... More

Mexico City, February 28 (RHC)-- In Mexico, two mayoral candidates from the state of Michoacán were killed Monday, within hours of each other.  Miguel Ángel Zavala and Armando Pérez Luna were preparing to begin their campaigns for mayor of Maravatío in the coming days when they were gunned down in separate incidents.  Both candidates were found shot to death in their cars.... More

Dublin, February 28 (RHC)-- Ireland’s senate has unanimously voted to impose sanctions against Israel and prevent the passage of U.S. weapons to Israel via Irish airspace.  Senators also voted to call for an international arms embargo against Israel. ... More

Rafah, February 28 (RHC)-- Running out of options and solutions, parents in Gaza have resorted to putting their children in the white medical coveralls that were part of COVID-19 PPE kits, in a desperate bid to keep them warm and dry.... More