Pittsburgh, June 18 (RHC)-- A man has been found guilty of a hate-fuelled 2018 attack on a synagogue in the United States city of Pittsburgh that killed 11 people. The mass shooting on October 27, 2018, at the Tree of Life synagogue represented the deadliest targeting of Jews in US history.... More
New Delhi, June 18 (RHC)-- At least 34 people have died in the past two days as a large swath of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh swelters under severe heat, officials said on Saturday, prompting doctors to advise residents over 60 to stay indoors during the daytime.... More
United Nations, June 18 (RHC)-- The number of people displaced around the world has reached a record 110 million, with the wars in Ukraine and Sudan forcing millions from their homes, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said.... More
Gaza City, June 18 (RHC)-- The resistance movement Hamas has condemned attempts by the Israeli regime to approve a bill aimed at handing down prison sentences to Palestinian minors aged 12 or older. The group said in a statement on Saturday that the bill was a “reflection of the occupying regime’s racist and brutal nature.”... More
Arlee, June 17 (RHC)-- In Arlee, in the U.S. state of Montana, community members engaged in a series of “awareness walks” this week to demand justice for Mika Westwolf, a 22-year-old Indigenous woman who was struck and killed in March by a driver as she was walking home along a highway in the early morning hours.... More
New York, June 17 (RHC)-- A longtime producer for Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News after he was deemed responsible for the on-air headline that referred to President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator” because of the indictment of former President Donald Trump. ... More
Quito, June 17 (RHC)-- Councilman Jairo Olaya, from the Ecuadorian city of Esmeraldas and a militant of the Citizen Revolution (RC) movement, died Saturday after being shot four days ago.... More
United Nations, June 17 (RHC)-- United Nations agencies have called for “urgent and decisive action” to be taken by the Europe Union to prevent further deaths in the Mediterranean following the presumed drowning of hundreds of people this week off the coast of Greece.... More
Brasilia, June 17 (RHC)-- Brazil’s Federal Police has released a report detailing evidence that an aide to former President Jair Bolsonaro was involved in a plan to stage a military coup, following the far-right leader’s defeat in the 2022 elections.... More
Ramallah, June 17 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have attacked anti-settlement Palestinian protesters in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Clashes ensued after the forces attacked the protesters in the village of Beit 'Amra, which is located 12 kilometers (seven miles) southwest of the city of al-Khalil (Hebron), in the southern West Bank on Friday.... More
Brussels, June 17 (RHC)-- Average global temperatures at the start of June were the warmest ever recorded for the period, trouncing previous records by a “substantial margin”, the European Union’s climate monitoring unit said. “The world has just experienced its warmest early June on record,” Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), said in a statement on Thursday.... More
Tehran, June 17 (RHC)-- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has returned from a tour of Latin America, where he signed dozens of agreements with three allies who share Tehran’s defiance of Western powers. The Iranian president, who was accompanied by his ministers of foreign affairs, defence, petroleum and health, arrived in Tehran on Friday after a five-day trip that took him to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.... More
Kingston, June 16 (RHC)-- The president of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and prime minister of the Bahamas, Philip Davis assured on behalf of the organization that there is no intention to send military forces to Haiti.... More
Berlin, June 17 (RHC)-- While the Israeli regime carried out routine bombardments of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip last month, German government authorities in Berlin were busy repressing public gatherings that aimed to commemorate the Palestinian Nakba. ... More
United Nations, June 17 (RHC)-- United Nations experts have expressed concern over reports of excessive use of force during protests in France earlier this year over controversial pension reform plans by President Emanuel Macron.... More
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