Jeddah, March 14 (RHC)-- Oil giant Saudi Aramco has reported earning $161 billon last year, claiming the highest-ever recorded annual profit by a publicly listed company and drawing immediate criticism from activists.... More
Washington, March 13 (RHC)-- Hundreds of demonstrators, led by several American Jewish organizations, protested a visit by Israel’s finance minister to Washington, D.C., Sunday, after the Biden administration granted him a diplomatic visa to speak at an investment conference. ... More
Beijing, March 13 (RHC)-- Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations in a deal brokered by China and signed in Beijing. The agreement ends a seven-year dispute between the two countries, who plan to reopen their embassies within two months. ... More
Tripoli, March 13 (RHC)-- Thirty people are missing and 17 have been rescued in the central Mediterranean after the boat in which they were travelling from Libya capsized in bad weather, Italy’s coast guard has said.... More
Rome, March 13 (RHC)-- Aggressions against nursing staff have increased in Italy in recent years, and already amount to more than 125,000 recent acts of this type, a report indicates.... More
Damascus, March 13 (RHC)-- U.S. forces illegally present in Syria transferred a new group of Islamic State (Daesh) extremists to one of their bases in the northeastern province of Hasakeh.... More
Ramallah, March 13 (RHC)-- The Israeli military says its forces shot and killed three Palestinian men who opened fire on soldiers in the occupied West Bank, the latest bloodshed in a year-long wave of violence in the region.... More
Athens, March 13 (RHC)-- Thousands of people have rallied in central Athens to protest over Greece’s deadliest rail disaster, which killed dozens of people last month. The demonstrators expressed anger over safety deficiencies in Greece’s railway network and demanded punishment for those responsible for the head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train that killed 57 people on February 28. Police said that more than 8,000 people in Athens gathered outside Parliament to protest on Sunday.... More
Brasilia, March 12 (RHC)-- In the Brazilian capital, tthe Court of Accounts of the Union (TCU) has decided to launch an investigation into the waste of millions of COVID-19 vaccines during the administration of Jair Bolsonaro.... More
Damascus, March 12 (RHC)-- At least three soldiers have been wounded in Israeli air attacks targeting locations in central and west Syria. Syria’s state news agency SANA reported that an attack was carried out on Sunday morning.... More
Rome, March 12 (RHC)-- More than 1,000 people have been brought to safety at two Italian ports after the overcrowded boats they were on encountered problems in the Mediterranean, the Italian coastguard has said, almost two weeks after at least 76 people died in a shipwreck.... More
London, March 12 (RHC)-- Thousands of protesters marched through London to the British prime minister’s residence over the weekend to support healthcare workers who have held a series of strikes over pay and conditions in the state-funded National Health Service. Almost 40,000 junior doctors, who form the backbone of hospital care, are walking out across England for three days starting on Monday. ... More
Paris, March 12 (RHC)-- Protesters took to the streets in France for a seventh day of demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms as the Senate resumed debate on the plan. According to interior ministry figures, up to one million people took part in over 200 marches throughout the country on Saturday in an effort to keep up to pressure on Macron’s government to withdraw the reform, whose key measure is to increase the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 years.... More
Maputo, March 12 (RHC)-- Intense rains and winds started to lash parts of Mozambique as Tropical Cyclone Freddy bore down on the country for the second time in as many weeks, authorities have said. Freddy slowed its advance towards the southern African nation and was 60 kilometres (40 miles) off the coast on Saturday morning, according to the Mozambique National Meteorology Institute (INAM).... More
New York, March 11 (RHC)-- In news from New York, Sheldon Thomas, a 35-year-old Black man from Brooklyn who was wrongfully convicted of murder, has been exonerated and freed from prison after nearly 19 years behind bars. ... More
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