Vilnius, July 12 (RHC)-- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attended his first NATO-Ukraine Council meeting on Wednesday at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. On Tuesday, NATO said it planned to grant Ukraine membership in the future, but did not offer a timetable.... More
Berlin, July 12 (RHC)-- The Akademie der Künste in Berlin has said it will award its annual Konrad Wolf Prize to Julian Assange. Though the Australian activist and founder of WikiLeaks is unlilkely to be able to attend the October ceremony as he is currently held at Belmarsh top security prison in London.... More
United Nations, July 12 (RHC)-- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) says some 900 Palestinian houses have been damaged and many of them have become uninhabitable in the wake of the Israeli military’s two-day raid on the Jenin refugee camp that killed at least 12 Palestinians and wounded dozens more.... More
Tel Aviv, July 12 (RHC)-- Thousands of Israeli protesters took to the streets on Tuesday, blocking major highways and thronging the country’s main international airport, in countrywide demonstrations against the government’s contentious plan to change the country’s judicial system.... More
Geneva, July 12 RHC)-- The United Nations Human Rights Council has approved a resolution on religious hatred and bigotry in the wake of a Quran-burning stunt in Sweden that led to protests across the Muslim world.... More
Caracas, July 12 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has denounced that opposition politician Henrique Capriles Randonski continues to conspire against the country, again encouraging the economic war.... More
Ramallah, July 12 (RHC)-- Every morning, Fatima Salahat, a mother of four, would wake up at 7 a.m., get out of bed and tiptoe into the kitchen of her home in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. With her husband, Zeid, still lost in slumber, she would start her day with the music of Lebanese icon Fairuz – often the same song, on repeat.... More
United Nations, July 12 (RHC)-- The United Nations is warning the next five years are likely to be the warmest on record, with far-reaching repercussions for health, food security, water management and the environment. ... More
La Paz, July 11 (RHC)-- The President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, has enacted the Law of Partial Deferral of the Prenatal Period to the Postnatal Period in a ceremony at the Casa Grande del Pueblo, where dozens of working women from different fields were present.... More
United Nations, July 11 (RHC)-- Israel has detained more than 800,000 Palestinians in the occupied territory since 1967, including tens of thousands of children, and of the current 5,000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons about 1,100 are being held without charge or trial, an expert has told the UN Human Rights Council.... More
Geneva, July 11 (RHC)-- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says any kind of delay in condemning and preventing the desecration of the Holy Qur’an bespeaks of “double standards” by the international community.... More
Caracas, July 11 (RHC)-- The foreign ministers of Suriname, Albert Ramdin, and Venezuela, Yván Gil, held a meeting on Monday in Caracas to review the common agenda for regional integration and cooperation.... More
Ramallah, July 11 (RHC)-- In the occupied West Bank, Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man Monday, alleging he threw a handmade explosive device at soldiers and fired on them at a checkpoint outside an illegal Israeli settlement west of Ramallah. ... More
Oklahoma City, July 11 (RHC)-- A judge in the U.S. state of Oklahoma has dismissed a reparations lawsuit from the last three living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, in which a white mob burned down what was known as “Black Wall Street,” the thriving African American neighborhood of Greenwood. ... More
El Paso, July 11 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Texas, the white nationalist gunman who killed 23 people at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 has been sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms, after pleading guilty to federal hate crimes and weapons charges. ... More
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