London, February 22 (RHC)-- The UK’s House of Commons has descended into chaos as the government and the Scottish National Party (SNP) condemned Speaker Lindsay Hoyle for his handling of a key vote on support for a ceasefire in Gaza.... More


New York City, February 22 (RHC)-- The drug trafficking trial of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is underway.  Prosecutors accuse Hernández of ruling Honduras like a “narco-state” as he accepted millions of dollars in bribes from cocaine traffickers in exchange for protection. ... More


Washington, February 22 RHC)-- A court in Washington, D.C., is hearing arguments in a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of racial discrimination and rights violations of Haitian asylum seekers. ... More


United Nations, February 22 (RHC)-- The death toll in Gaza since October 7th is nearing 30,000, not counting thousands more who are missing, presumed dead and buried beneath the rubble. ... More


New York, February 22 (RHC)-- The movement for a ceasefire to end Israel’s war on Gaza has shone a spotlight on the role of corporate media in spreading pro-Israel narratives and minimizing the U.S. public’s access to accurate information about pro-Palestinian perspectives and those organizing in solidarity with Palestine. ... More


Geneva, February 22 (RHC)-- The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has warned that Israel’s bloody campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip has traumatized all the children in the Palestinian territory.  In a post on X on Wednesday, Secretary-General Jan Egeland of the international humanitarian organization, said, “NRC has for many years worked with and for the repeatedly war-traumatized #Gaza children through our school-based Better Learning Program. Most children got better.”... More


Beirut, February 22 (RHC)-- Iran’s foreign minister has censured Washington for vetoing, for the third time, a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip.  Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said “diplomatic catastrophe of the century” had taken place and the United States remains responsible for Israel’s savage campaign in Gaza since early October.... More


Rafah, February 22 (RHC)-- The Israeli military has conducted fresh aerial assaults on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 99 people in the besieged Palestinian territory.  The Gaza Health Ministry said on Thursday that most of the victims of Israel’s overnight air raids were women, children and elderly people.... More


London, February 22 (RHC)-- Britain’s appeals court has concluded a two-day public hearing regarding the proposed extradition of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to stand trial in the U.S. for ‘espionage.’... More


Washington, February 22 (RHC)-- U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders says Washington cannot continue to be complicit in Israel’s horrific war in the Gaza Strip, while the whole world is watching.  "The whole world is watching.  Netanyahu is starving the children of Gaza.  We cannot be complicit in this atrocity,” Sanders said in a video message on X.... More


Tel Aviv, February 22 (RHC)-- Israeli lawmakers have voted to back Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of any “unilateral” recognition of a Palestinian state as international calls have grown for the revival of Palestinian statehood negotiations.... More


United Nations, February 22 RHC)-- Condemnations have poured in from world countries after the United States once again vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that demanded an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s months-long genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip.... More


United Nations, February 22 (RHC)-- UN experts have expressed alarm over “credible allegations” of egregious human rights violations that Palestinian women and girls continue to face in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Anadolu Agency reports.... More


Geneva, February 21 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the alarm over the “inhumane” humanitarian situation in Gaza, which continues to deteriorate as Israel’s bombs keep falling on the besieged territory.... More


Tel Aviv, February 21 (RHC)-- Israel will impose some restrictions on access to Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan according to “security needs”,  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says.... More


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