Tel Aviv, August 6 (RHC)-- A surge in requests from Israeli doctors to leave the occupied territories at any cost has been reported since the Knesset (the parliament) passed a bill late last month that would overhaul the judiciary and limit its powers.... More
Tel Aviv, August 6 (RHC)-- Tens of thousands of protesters have rallied for the 31st straight week against the policies of Israel's hard-right cabinet, including the highly controversial judicial overhaul bill. The latest rallies took place on Saturday in around 150 locations throughout the occupied territories, local media outlets said.... More
Brasilia, August 6 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a decree that guarantees the purchase of energy from Venezuela, thus resuming a supply interrupted in 2019 by former President Jair Bolsonaro.... More
Sucre, August 6 (RHC)-- Bolivian President Luis Arce evoked this Sunday the independence struggle of the Bolivian people on the 198th anniversary of the achievement of their freedom, during a ceremony held at the Casa de la Libertad in Sucre.... More
Hiroshima, August 6 (RHC)-- The mayor of Hiroshima mayor has slammed the nuclear deterrence claims of world's Western powers as "folly" while Japan marks the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on the city that massacred nearly 140,000 people and has never apologized for the terrorist crime. ... More
Tehran, August 6 (RHC)-- Tehran has lashed out at the United States as the only country using nuclear weapons and massacring hundreds of thousands in Japan as well as being the key supporter of the nuke-armed Israeli regime while still purporting to advocate global nuclear disarmament.... More
Paris, August 6 (RHC)-- The French government has refused to pull its troops out of coup-hit Niger, saying it backs regional countries' push to reinstate the ousted pro-West president Mohammad Bazoum. Last Wednesday, Bazoum was taken into custody at the presidential palace in the capital Niamey by Niger’s Presidential Guard (PG), and two days later, PG's head, General Abdourahamane Tiani, declared himself as the new leader of the former French colony.... More
Tel Aviv, August 6 (RHC)-- A gunman opened fire in central Tel Aviv and killed an Israeli police inspector before he was shot dead by a responding officer. Amateur video circulated online of police and civilians on Saturday running through the cafe-lined streets in the seaside metropolis.... More
Ottawa, August 6 (RHC)-- Canada is the first country in the world to require every cigarette to have health warnings in order to "reduce the appeal of tobacco," the North American nation's Health Ministry said.... More
Mexico City, August 6 (RHC) -- State and municipal governments, senators and deputies of the National Action Party (PAN) escalated their confrontation with President Andres Manuel to affect the free distribution of school books.... More
Gaza City, August 5 (RHC)-- A Palestinian boy has sustained several bruises and fractures after an Israeli settler ran him over with his car in the occupied southern West Bank city of al-Khalil. The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing local sources, reported that the four-year-old victim, identified as Joud al-Fakhori, was struck in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of al-Khalil on Friday evening.... More
Miami, August 5 (RHC)-- Former U.S. President Donald Trump has set off a social media firestorm by issuing an apparent threat against unidentified enemies just one day after he was indicted for the third time in four months.... More
Houston, August 5 (RHC)-- A health care provider in the United States has come under a cyber attack, disrupting its computers and causing chaos in medical facilities in several states across the country.... More
Paris, August 5 (RHC)-- France will support efforts by the West African regional bloc ECOWAS to make the military coup in Niger fail, the French foreign ministry said on Saturday. French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna met with Niger Prime Minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou and the Niger ambassador in Paris on Saturday.... More
Brussels, August 5 (RHC)-- The world’s oceans have set a new temperature record with the potential to threaten Earth’s climate, marine life and coastal communities. The temperature of the oceans’ surface hit 20.96 degrees Celsius (69.71 Fahrenheit) on Friday, according to European Union climate observatory data.... More
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