Tel Aviv, March 8 (RHC)-- Israel’s so-called national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has ordered the regime’s forces to press ahead with the demolition of Palestinian homes that have purportedly been built "without permits" in occupied East al-Quds during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.... More
Paris, March 8 (RHC)-- The majority of French citizens have expressed support for rolling strikes planned against President Emanuel Macron's deeply unpopular pension reforms a new poll says. The results of poll by the Elabe survey group for the BFM news channel showed that a total of 56 percent of respondents backed rolling strikes against bitterly contested plans to reforms pensions and 59 percent said they supported the call to bring the European country to "a standstill."... More
Mexico City, March 7 (RHC)-- Mexican authorities have discovered 343 migrants and refugees, including 103 unaccompanied minors, in an abandoned freight truck container on the side of a highway. The National Immigration Institute (INM) said on Monday the trailer was found in the steamy Gulf coast state of Veracruz. It was on a route often used by smugglers to bring people from southeastern Mexico to the United States border.... More
Asunción, March 7 (RHC)-- Former Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo (2006-2008) was discharged from a hospital on Monday after being hospitalized for months due to a stroke he suffered on August 10th last year.... More
New York, March 7 (RHC)-- Hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers rallied and marched on the home of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to protest his embrace of far-right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid growing violence against Palestinians—violence that demonstrators said is enabled by the U.S. government's unwavering military and diplomatic support.... More
Brasilia, March 7 (RHC)-- The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has ordered a police investigation into allegations that government staff under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, tried to bring millions of dollars worth of jewellery into the country.... More
Addis Ababa, March 7 (RHC)-- The African Union has postponed a conference that was due to take place in Tunisia this month, Bloomberg reports, after criticism over a government crackdown and racial attacks against sub-Saharan nationals.... More
Damascus, March 7 (RHC)-- Israel has launched an air raid on Syria’s Aleppo airport, damaging its runway and taking it out of service, according to Syrian state media. The SANA news agency said the missile attacks took place early on Tuesday morning.... More
Abuja, March 7 (RHC)-- In Nigeria, over 13,000 residents of the oil-rich Niger Delta joined a landmark British lawsuit against Shell and its Nigerian subsidiary earlier this year. ... More
Berlin, March 7 (RHC)-- Climate change could cost Germany up to 900 billion euros ($960 billion) in cumulative economic damage by mid-century, a new study shows, as Europe’s biggest economy searches for ways to cut that bill.... More
United Nations, March 7 (RHC)-- At the United Nations, negotiators from more than 190 countries have agreed to the first-ever international treaty to protect the high seas. ... More
Tel Aviv, March 6 (RHC)-- Ongoing protests against the far-right Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu were larger than ever over the weekend as an estimated 200,000 people or more took to the streets in Tel Aviv and other cities to denounce judicial reforms they warn put the nation on a path towards dictatorship.... More
Santo Domingo, March 6 (RHC)-- The Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (Mispas) of the Dominican Republic confirmed this Sunday the appearance of three new cases of cholera in that Caribbean country.... More
Tehran, March 6 (RHC)-- The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry says the United States is in no position to advocate human rights or democracy, recounting the White House’s record of supporting political systems based on institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination, namely South Africa's dismantled apartheid regime and the Tel Aviv regime.... More
Port-au-Prince, March 6 (RHC)-- Bruno Maes, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) representative in Haiti, has called for solidarity with young Haitians from Port-au-Prince and Artibonite, where violent gang attacks have considerably increased.... More
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