New York, March 22 (RHC)-- In New York City, dozens of community organizers, parents, teachers and students rallied at a Bronx high school Monday, protesting a military recruitment and job fair event hosted by U.S. Congressmembers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Adriano Espaillat. ... More
Ramallah, March 22 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Authority, Egypt and Jordan have condemned as “racist” a firebrand Israeli minister’s remarks denying the existence of the Palestinian people, with Amman summoning Israel’s ambassador for a rebuke.... More
La Paz, March 22 (RHC)-- President Luis Arce defended the Bolivian state’s sovereignty over lithium during the Farmer Women National Confederation Congress in Tarija city. “Lithium has great importance for the technological change required nowadays,” Arce recalled, stressing that this metal is used to produce electric car and motorcycle batteries.... More
London, March 22 (RHC)-- Britain’s biggest police force is institutionally racist, misogynist and homophobic, according to an independent review commissioned after a young woman was raped and killed by a serving officer. The Metropolitan Police Service, which has more than 34,000 officers, must “change itself” or risk being broken up, the report published on Tuesday said.... More
Damascus, March 22 (RHC)-- An Israeli air attack has hit Syria’s Aleppo airport causing some “material damage” in the second strike on the facility this month, the Syrian defense ministry has said, according to news reports.... More
Paris, March 22 (RHC)-- The French government narrowly survived a pair of no-confidence votes in Parliament, after President Emmanuel Macron rammed through an unpopular law by executive fiat, raising the retirement age from 62 to 64.... More
Buenos Aires, March 21 (RHC)-- The III World Forum on Human Rights was inaugurated on Monday in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, in the National Auditorium of the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK). ... More
Tampa, March 21 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Florida, hundreds of farmworkers and their supporters led a five-day, 50-mile march demanding humane working conditions and better protections. Workers are calling on food retailers to join the Fair Food Program, an initiative launched by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in 2011 to improve conditions for farmworkers and end modern-day slavery. ... More
Caracas, March 21 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan sector vice-president of Economy and Oil Minister, Tareck El Aissami, announced on Monday his resignation due to the investigations opened for alleged acts of corruption in the state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).... More
Caracas, March 21 (RHC)-- The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said this Monday that his government had taken a frontal position in the fight against corruption and corrupt people in the framework of the cases investigated in the country.... More
United Nations, March 20 (RHC)-- A major new United Nations report provides a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing a dangerous global warming threshold. The report by hundreds of the world’s top scientists is the capstone of a series that summarises the research on global warming compiled since the Paris climate accord was agreed upon in 2015.... More
London, March 20 (RHC)-- Four out of ten of the public hospitals in Britain are using outdated medical equipment such as X-ray machines, CT scanners and radiotherapy treatment devices, Britain's Liberal Democrat lawmakers have reported, citing a new research.... More
Canberra, March 21 (RHC)-- A former member of the Australian military has been charged with a war crime over the killing of an Afghan civilian. The 41-year-old man was arrested in New South Wales and charged with murder following a joint investigation between the Office of the Special Investigator (OSI) and the Australian Federal Police, according to a joint statement from the OSI and the police.... More
Tel Aviv, March 21 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a softening of his hard-right government’s judicial changes plan, an apparent concession to more than two months of unprecedented nationwide protests and misgivings voiced by Western allies.... More
Washington, March 20 (RHC)-- Protests have taken place across the U.S. calling for an end to Washington's involvement in the Ukraine war as the world marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. ... More
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