Gaza City, October 8 (RHC)-- A senior Hamas leader has said that the group had captured enough Israeli soldiers during an unprecedented attack against Israel to make Israeli authorities free all Palestinian prisoners in its jails. “We managed to kill and capture many Israeli soldiers. The fighting is still on,” Saleh al-Arouri, deputy chief of Hamas’s political bureau, told Al Jazeera on Saturday.... More
Caracas, October 8 (RHC)-- The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Philip J. Pierre, on an official visit to the South American country, signed this Friday three documents to strengthen strategic relations, which will allow progress in the construction of a new region.... More
United Nations, Oct 8 (RHC) United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Tor Wennesland on Saturday called for maximum restraint and the protection of civilian lives due to increasing tension in the Gaza Strip.... More
Gaza City, October 8 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime has cut electricity to the Gaza Strip as it intensifies its attacks against the besieged Palestinian territory. The regime’s energy minister said he ordered the Israeli electricity company to halt power supply to the Gaza Strip on Saturday.... More
Gaza City, October 7 (RHC)-- Palestinians have launched their biggest operation against Israel in years in a surprise offensive that combined fighters crossing the fence into Israeli occupied cities with a heavy barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip.... More
Washington, October 7 (RHC)-- More than 60 Australian federal MPs have expressed their support for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange has been in a UK jail since 2019 fighting his extradition to the United States. He previously spent seven years as a refugee in Ecuador's London embassy. In the United States, he faces charges of conspiracy and espionage.... More
Gaza City, October 7 (RHC)-- Palestinian fighters have launched the largest attack on Israel in years, infiltrating areas of southern Israel amid a barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip that killed at least one woman and injured 15 others, Israeli medical workers said.... More
Ramallah, October 7 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have attacked hundreds of Palestinians attending the funeral procession of a youth in the West Bank, injuring over 50. The crowd was mourning the 19-year-old Labib Dumaidi, who in the early hours of Friday succumbed to injuries sustained in a raid by Israeli settlers on the town of Huwara, south of Nablus.... More
Gaza City, October 7 (RHC)-- Emergency medical workers in Gaza have reported a spike in ankle injuries among protesters. Israeli forces, including snipers, appear to be deliberately shooting at Palestinians’ legs and ankles — wounds that are extremely difficult to treat and can lead to amputations. ... More
Washington, October 7 (RHC)-- In the U.S., as Republican lawmakers and the gun lobby have fought tooth and nail against proposals to reduce access to firearms in the U.S. and ensure they are kept out of the hands of children over the last decade, the number of child deaths from gun violence has almost doubled, rising 87% between 2011-21.... More
Washington, October 7 (RHC)-- In climate news, new data show global average surface temperatures last month shattered the previous record for September, rising to a staggering 1.8 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. That’s well above the Paris Climate Agreement’s limit of 1.5 degrees of warming — and half a degree warmer than the previous record. This follows the hottest August and the hottest July ever recorded.... More
Washington, October 7 (RHC)-- Damning new information has emerged in the bribery indictment against New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, his wife Nadine and two of their three co-defendants. ... More
Detroit, October 6 (RHC)-- The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has said that it will not further expand its strike after winning a major breakthrough, bringing electric vehicle battery plants into the union’s national contract.... More
Ramallah, October 6 (RHC)-- Israeli settlers, backed by the regime’s forces, have killed another Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, bringing to four the number of Palestinians killed at the hands of Israelis in just 24 hours.... More
Washington, October 6 (RHC)-- The Joe Biden administration has waived 26 environmental laws to speed the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Texas. T he waivers circumvent the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Endangered Species Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, among others. ... More
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