New York, February 16 (RHC)-- A number of Arab countries are reportedly “increasingly restricting” the United States and its allies from conducting attacks from their soil against Iran and resistant groups in the West Asia region amid the Israeli onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip.... More
United Nations, February 16 (RHC)-- Fears are mounting over a planned Israeli ground attack on some 1.4 million people in Rafah. Even the U.S. has said the move would be a “disaster” without a realistic evacuation plan. The U.N. and others say there is no plausible way to evacuate Rafah.... More
Washington, February 16 (RHC)-- In the U.S., climate groups have sued the Biden administration over its failure to adequately assess the public health impacts on frontline communities in its five-year plan for offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. ... More
San Francisco, February 16 (RHC)-- Students at Stanford University near San Fransisco, California, are ending a months-long sit-in to demand the university call for a ceasefire in Gaza and divest from Israeli companies complicit in war crimes, among other demands.... More
New York, February 16 (RHC)-- Seventy-two of the 99 journalists killed worldwide in 2023 were Palestinians reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza, making those 12 months the deadliest for the media in almost a decade, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).... More
Rome, February 16 (RHC)-- A number of lawmakers from the once anti-establishment Five Star Movement, the Italian left and Green Europe parties, and the Democratic Party, gathered in Parliament Square chanting that the Israeli bombardment of Gaza must stop now.... More
Geneva, February 16 (RHC)-- The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has denounced “short-sighted” calls to have the agency dismantled amid the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. The agency’s chief Philippe Lazzarini said he warned the member states at a meeting in Geneva “about all these calls to have UNRWA dismantled, to be terminated.”... More
Tehran, February 16 (RHC)-- Iran has called for an emergency meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) amid the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, especially Rafah which faces an imminent Israeli invasion.... More
Khan Younis, February 16 (RHC)-- Medical authorities in the Gaza Strip say at least four patients have lost their lives at a hospital in southern part of the territory because power to the facility was cut during an Israeli raid and oxygen supplies were subsequently restricted.... More
Dublin, February 16 (RHC)-- Ireland’s foreign ministry has announced that the country is pledging €20 million, or about $21.5 million, to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) as Israel escalates its genocide of Palestinians and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza becomes yet more dire.... More
Caracas, February 16 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday expressed his rejection of the theft of the plane belonging to Empresa de Transporte Aerocargos del Sur (Emtrasur S.A.), a subsidiary of state airline Conviasa, and reiterated the call to the people for unity.... More
Brasilia, February 16 (RHC)-- Brazil's Federal District Civil Police filed charges on Thursday against Renan Bolsonaro, the youngest son of former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), in relation to money laundering and other offences, according to local media reports.... More
Cairo, February 16 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said Israel's behavior in the Gaza Strip, which is enduring a genocidal war by the occupying regime, is beyond explanation. "Israel's behavior has no explanation," he said after a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Thursday.... More
London, February 16 (RHC)-- One of the UK’s top rabbis has lent his voice to the growing opposition to Israel’s planned assault on Rafah.... More
London, February 16 (RHC)-- The wife of Julian Assange said Thursday the WikiLeaks founder would die if extradited to the United States, ahead of his latest appeal against the UK ruling. Jullian Assange, 52, is wanted on espionage charges in the US and has been detained in the high-security Belmarsh Prison in southeast London since April 2019.... More
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