Tel Aviv, March 11 (RHC)-- U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders in Israel, where he called for an independent judiciary and for deescalating tensions with Palestine, while reiterating the U.S.'s “deep commitment” to Israel's security.... More
Newark, March 11 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of New Jersey, a monument honoring abolitionist hero Harriet Tubman has been unveiled in Newark, replacing a statue of Christopher Columbus that was removed in 2020 as racial justice protests erupted nationwide in response to the police murder of George Floyd. Washington Park has been renamed “Harriet Tubman Square.” ... More
Atlanta, March 11 (RHC)-- In the United States, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reports that the distribution of white supremacist propaganda increased by 38 percent between 2021 and 2022, which constitutes an all-time record in the United States.... More
Ramallah, March 11 (RHC)-- An Israeli settler has shot dead a Palestinian man near an illegal settlement in the northern occupied West Bank, officials have said. The Israeli military said that the Palestinian had been armed with knives and an explosive device, and had entered a farm on Friday near Karnei Shomron, which is near the Palestinian city of Qalqilya.... More
Rome, March 11 (RHC)-- An Italian interpreter has refused to translate for the "dangerous" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is on a visit to Italy. Olga Dalia Padoa, who had been contacted by the Israeli Embassy in Rome and had initially accepted the job offer, later refused to be the translator for the Israeli regime's prime minister during his speech at an event scheduled at a synagogue in Rome on Friday.... More
New York, March 11 (RHC)-- Former U.S. President Donald Trump may soon face criminal charges in connection with the payment of hush money to the adult entertainer Stormy Daniels, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing four unnamed "people with knowledge of the matter."... More
Mexico City, March 10 (RHC)-- The Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN), signed on Friday the Mexico Agreement, the new agenda of dialogues to achieve peace in the South American country.... More
Hamburg, March 10 (RHC)-- A gunman opened fire and killed at least eight people at a Jehovah’s Witnesses centre in the German city of Hamburg. An unspecified number of others were wounded, some seriously, on Thursday evening in the attack that stunned Germany’s second-biggest city. Police gave the casualty figure on its website, and there was still no word on a possible motive.... More
La Paz, March 10 (RHC)-- Bolivian Justice authorities have approved the prosecution without privileges of former de facto president Jeanine Áñez (2019-2020) for the deaths during her administration.... More
Washington, March 10 (RHC)-- The United States has released a Saudi Arabian engineer who was imprisoned for more than 20 years at Guantanamo Bay military prison despite never being charged with suspected crimes following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.... More
Rome, March 10 (RHC)--At least 14 people from sub-Saharan African countries have drowned off Tunisia as they tried to reach Europe by boat in the latest tragedy on the Mediterranean Sea. Tunisia’s coastguard said in a statement on Wednesday that officers the previous night had intercepted “a group whose boat had sunk, rescuing 54 people of various sub-Saharan African nationalities and recovering 14 bodies.”... More
Caracas, March 10 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan government will not sign any agreement with the opposition of the Unitary Platform until the unilateral coercive measures are lifted, said the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez.... More
Mexico City, March 10 (RHC)-- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has rejected calls for the United States military to intervene to stem drug cartel violence in Mexico, saying such a move would violate the country’s sovereignty.... More
Ramallah, Occupied West Bank, March 10 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have killed three Palestinians in a raid in Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, less than 48 hours after six others were killed in another raid on the city. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said the three men shot dead on Thursday morning were identified as Ahmad Fashafsheh, 22, Sufian Fakhouri, 26, and Nayef Malaysheh, 25.... More
Washington, March 10 (RHC)-- U.S. journalist Vincent Bevins, in his new explosive book "The Jakarta Method," has laid bare mass murders orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world during the Cold War. ... More
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