Jerusalem, February 8  (RHC)-- Argentina's President Javier Milei is wrapping up a controversial visit to Israel, where he pledged to move his country's embassy to Jerusalem and compared Hamas's 7 October attacks in southern Israel to the Holocaust.... More


Sanaa, February 8 (RHC)-- The United States and Britain have carried out fresh aerial bombings against two western Yemeni provinces in response to the Arab Peninsula country's pro-Palestinian strikes.  The assaults took place on Thursday, targeting Sa'ada Province in Yemen's extreme northwest and the coastal province of al-Hudaydah.... More


Gaza City, February 8 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in the Gaza Strip has called on the international community to exert pressure on the Israeli regime to reveal the fate of two of its staff and a six-year-old Palestinian girl who have been missing for a week.... More


Rafah, February 8 (RHC)-- Fears have mounted over a new carnage against Palestinians as the Israeli military prepares to conduct an offensive in the overcrowded Gaza city of Rafah.... More


Tel Aviv, February 8 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a proposal by Hamas for a three-phase ceasefire where Hamas would release all hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. Hamas is seeking an end to the Israeli assault and for all Israeli troops to leave Gaza.  ... More


Baghdad, February 8 (RHC)-- Iraq has denounced a US drone strike in Baghdad that killed a commander of an Iran-aligned group, saying the United States-led military coalition in the country is becoming a “factor for instability.”... More


Lima, February 8 (RHC)-- The former president of Peru, Pedro Castillo Terrones, addressed this Wednesday a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres, in which he denounced his detention and the repeated violations of his human rights.... More


Managua, February 8 (RHC)-- Nicaragua could move to take Germany, Canada, the U.K. and the Netherlands to the International Court of Justice over their role in aiding Israel’s genocide in Gaza.  Nicaragua called on the four nations to immediately stop providing arms, munitions and technology to the Israeli army.... More


New York, February 8 (RHC)-- The U.S. giant food chain McDonald’s and coffee chain Starbucks both blamed pro-Palestine boycott campaigns for weaker than expected same-store sales after protests over their pro-Israeli stance in the Gaza war escalated.... More


Caracas, February 7 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez rejected on Wednesday the statements made by the president of the US company ExxonMobil, Alistair Routledge, and affirmed that this transnational "intends to protect its illicit operations in a sea pending to be delimited" with Guyana.... More


Cairo, February 7 (RHC)-- The Arab Parliament has censured a plan by Argentina’s right-wing President Javier Milei to relocate the country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to the occupied al-Quds.  In a statement released on Wednesday, the Parliament said the legal, historical and religious status of the city is not subject to review.... More


Beirut, February 7 (RHC)-- As a show of staunch support for Palestinians amid the relentless Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip, fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement have launched two attacks targeting Israeli military positions.... More


New York, February 7 (RHC)-- In the United States, the former head of Honduras’s National Police pleaded guilty Tuesday to cocaine trafficking charges.  Juan Carlos “El Tigre” Bonilla appeared in a New York City court just days before he was scheduled to go on trial with former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández. ... More


United Nations, February 7 (RHC)-- The Palestinian ambassador to the UN has criticized the Security Council for its inaction in the face of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, expressing disappointment over the body's inability to fulfill its mandate to protect peace and security.... More


Baghdad, February 7 (RHC)-- A drone strike targeting the eastern section of the Iraqi capital Baghdad has killed three people, including a senior commander of Iraq's Kata'ib Hezbollah resistance group, a report says.  Reuters news agency carried the report on Wednesday, citing "two security sources."... More


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