London, February 23 (RHC)-- An “ever-increasing” number of households in UK, including teachers, pensioners, and employees of the NHS, are turning to food banks for assistance as a result of the cost of living issue and country’s high inflation, according to new statistics.... More
Gaza City, February 23 (RHC)-- Israel has carried out airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, a day after the occupying regime’s forces carried out a violent raid on the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. Israeli warplanes pounded targets in the north of Gaza City on Thursday, sending plumes of black smoke rising over one of the targeted locations.... More
Mogadishu, February 23 (RHC)-- Drought trends in the Horn of Africa are now worse than they were during the 2011 famine in which hundreds of thousands of people died. The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center said on Wednesday that below-normal rainfall is expected during the rainy season over the next three months.... More
Washington, February 23 (RHC)-- The Joe Biden administration has proposed a new policy that could block tens of thousands of people from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. The rule would force migrants to first seek protection in Mexico or another country they passed through on their trek to the U.S. ... More
Madison, February 23 (RHC)-- Over 1,500 flights have been canceled as a major winter storm produces historic snowfall in the United States. Powerful winter storms lashed the U.S. on Wednesday, with heavy snow snarling travel across wide areas, even as unusual warmth was expected in others.... More
Ankara, February 22 (RHC)--In a field hospital set up for animals in the southern city of Antakya, a cat meowed in half-hearted protest as he was gently laid on a table, examined, and injected with painkillers and antibiotics by a volunteer veterinarian and her assistant.... More
United Nations, February 22 (RHC)-- The United Nations has called on Israel to “pause” plans to gut the judiciary. The move by Benjamin Netanyahu’s extreme-right government has triggered two months of mass protests.... More
Ankara, February 22 (RHC)-- The theft of a historical manuscript by an Israeli rescue team dispatched to Turkey under the excuse of helping those affected by the earthquake has sparked an ethical scandal. Media reports said the team secretly took the Book of Esther from Turkey’s earthquake-damaged Antakya Synagogue in Hatay province. The theft, however, was later discovered and the manuscript returned to Turkey.... More
Washington, February 22 (RHC)-- In the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Norfolk Southern to clean up the contamination from its derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month, which led to a massive fire and the release of toxic chemicals. ... More
New York, February 22 (RHC)-- Journalism’s prestigious George Polk Awards have been announced. Among 2022’s winners is former Democracy Now! producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous, a reporter for the independent Egyptian outlet Mada Masr. Sharif won the foreign television award for “The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh” along with Al Jazeera “Fault Lines” senior producer Kavitha Chekuru and executive producer Laila Al-Arian. ... More
New York, February 22 (RHC)-- The family of slain African-American leader Malcolm X marked on Tuesday the anniversary of his 1965 assassination by announcing plans to sue agencies including the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and others for $100 million, accusing them of playing a role in his death.... More
Mexico City, February 22 (RHC)-- A former Mexican presidential cabinet member has been convicted in the United States of taking enormous bribes to protect the violent drug cartels he was tasked with combatting.... More
Lima, February 22 (RHC)-- Former President Pedro Castillo has asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to order the State his immediate release and his reinstatement as president of Peru.... More
Nablus, February 22 (RHC)-- Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinians in a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. One hundred others were reported injured.... More
Ankara, February 22 (RHC)-- In Turkey, at least six people were killed as two new, powerful earthquakes shook the southern province of Hatay. ... More
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