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London, March 17 (RHC)-- Britain and a dozen other EU member states condemn the Israeli parliament’s approval of a bill that will enable settlers to return to areas of the West Bank evacuated in 2005 as part of the so-called Disengagement Law.... More
Paris, March 17 (RHC)-- Police fired tear gas at protesters on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, where some 7,000 people demonstrated against the government's pension changes in a spontaneous and unplanned rally. Reports said cobble stones were being thrown at the police, who charged to break up groups of protesters.... More
Tel Aviv, March 17 (RHC)-- Protesters have taken to the streets of Israeli cities again to reject a plan by the far-right and coalition cabinet led by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reform the regime’s court system and curb the Supreme Court’s powers.... More
London, March 16 (RHC)-- Germany is showing complete disdain for international conventions on human rights by sending away asylum-seekers to Africa or Eastern Europe with sheer impunity, according to an analyst. ... More
Bogota, March 16 (RHC)-- The death toll from an explosion at a series of connected coal mines in central Colombia has risen to 21, President Gustavo Petro says, after large-scale rescue efforts to free 10 miners who were trapped underground had failed.... More
Tel Aviv, March 16 (RHC)-- Israeli protesters have pressed ahead with demonstrations against a plan by the far-right government to weaken the independence of the judiciary, pushing back against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he rejected a compromise proposal from President Isaac Herzog that was meant to diffuse the crisis.... More
Bogota, March 16 (RHC)-- Colombia's Institute for Peace Development Studies (INDEPAZ) denounced Wednesday the discovery of the lifeless body of a peace signatory, as well as the murder of a community defender.... More
Vatican City, March 16 (RHC)-- Back on March 8, 2021, the pontiff held a meeting with the spiritual leader of Iraqi Shias during his unprecedented visit to the Arab country in what is seen as a landmark interfaith meeting. Pope Francis addressed Ayatollah Sistani as his "dear brother" in the letter, describing the meeting as "a milestone on the path of interreligious dialogue and understanding between peoples."... More
Caracas, March 16 (RHC)-- Chinese President Xi Jinping and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held a video conference and discussed their positions regarding the need to reform current global governance systems.... More
Maputo, March 16 (RHC)-- Tropical Cyclone Freddy hit the coast of Southern Africa for a second time over the weekend, bringing its total death toll to more than 220 people in Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar.... More
Tegucigalpa, March 16 (RHC)-- Honduran President Xiomara Castro has said she wants her country to open official diplomatic ties with China, in a move that would end its official relationship with the self-ruled island of Taiwan. Xiomara Castro, who said during her election campaign in 2021 that she would switch ties to Beijing before later backtracking, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday night that she had instructed her foreign minister to begin the process of recognizing the People’s Republic of China.... More
United Nations, March 16 (RHC)-- The United Nations and other actors are responsible for delays in getting emergency aid to Syrians after the devastating earthquakes last month, a UN-appointed commission of inquiry says.... More
London, March 16 (RHC)-- Police misuse of rubber bullets and other less lethal weapons against peaceful protesters has killed dozens of people and maimed thousands in more than 30 countries over the last five years, Amnesty International has said.... More
United Nations, March 15 (RHC)-- Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years but deadly heatwaves, storms and floods amplified by global warming could be a foretaste as planet-heating fossil fuels put a “liveable” future at risk. So concludes the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that started a weeklong meeting to distil six landmark reports totalling 10,000 pages prepared by more than 1,000 scientists over the last six years.... More
New York, March 15 (RHC)-- Meta Platforms has announced it will slash a further 10,000 jobs in a second round of mass layoffs as the Big Tech industry braces for a deep economic downturn. The Facebook-parent company said on Tuesday that it will reduce the size of its recruiting team and make further cuts in its tech groups in late April, and then its business groups in late May.... More
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