Guatemala City, February 15 (RHC)-- In Guatemala, Indigenous human rights defender and presidential hopeful Thelma Cabrera has vowed to fight the decision by Guatemala’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal to block her and her running mate, former human rights ombudsman Jordán Rodas, from the ballot in this year’s presidential elections. ... More
Damascus, February 15 (RHC)-- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says emergency humanitarian aid must be brought into all quake-hit areas in northwest Syria, including those not under the Damascus government’s control. Assad made the remarks in a meeting with Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the United Nations Martin Griffiths and his accompanying delegation in the Syrian capital city of Damascus.... More
Ankara, February 15 (RHC)--Hours after two huge earthquakes and hundreds of aftershocks struck southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria on February 6, some much-needed rescuers began to arrive in Turkey – K9 teams from around the world that had come to lend a hand to GEA, a Turkish volunteer rescue team.... More
Miami, February 15 (RHC)-- U.S. authorities have arrested and charged four people in Florida in connection to the 2021 assassination of former Haitian President Jovenel Moise. U.S. Justice Department officials announced on Tuesday charges of “conspiracy to kidnap or kill outside the United States, resulting in death” against Florida residents Antonio “Tony” Intriago, Arcangel Pretel Ortiz and Walter Veintemilla.... More
Ramallah, February 14 (RHC)-- An Israeli soldier has been filmed assaulting a prominent Palestinian human rights activist in front of a famous American journalist in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil.... More
Ankara, February 14 (RHC)-- The death toll from last week’s massive earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has topped 41,000, as the United Nations warned nearly 900,000 quake survivors are in urgent need of hot food. More than 5 million people in Syria may have been left homeless by the disaster. ... More
Washington, February 14 (RHC)-- In the U.S., former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has announced she’s running for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2024. Haley also served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Donald Trump until she quit the post in December 2018. ... More
Santiago de Chile, February 14 (RHC)-- In Chile, forensic experts have found famed poet and Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda died of poisoning — not cancer — in September 1973, according to his nephew. ... More
Lima, February 14 (RHC)-- According to an Ipsos Peru survey, 70 percent of Peruvians believe that the solution to the country's current social and political crisis is to advance general elections this year, 22 percent in April 2024, and 7 percent in 2026.... More
San Francisco, February 14 (RHC)-- Former Black Panther leader and political prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway passed away Monday in Long Beach, California. His wife, Dominique Conway, announced his passing on Twitter, saying, “It is hard to find the words necessary to convey my sense of loss, and the enormous loss the world has experienced with the death of my husband.” He was 76 years old. ... More
Lisbon, February 14 (RHC)-- In Portugal, more than 150,000 schoolteachers and their supporters marched through Lisbon to protest soaring inflation and low wages. ... More
Wellington, February 14 (RHC)-- New Zealand has declared a state of emergency in several regions, including its largest city of Auckland, as Cyclone Gabrielle roared ashore at high tide, bringing powerful winds, dangerous storm surge and torrential rains. ... More
Tel Aviv, February 14 (RHC)-- Israel’s far-right cabinet has approved the legalization of nine illegal settler outposts in the occupied West Bank, drawing condemnation from the Palestinian Authority (PA), which called the move an “open war” against its people.... More
Lisbon, February 14 (RHC)-- The Portuguese Catholic Church sexually abused at least 4,815 children since 1950, a new report has found. The commission investigating the issue said on Monday that 77 percent of the perpetrators were priests and most of the victims were men.... More
Damascus, February 14 (RHC)-- The United Nations' head of aid operations said the earthquake rescue phase is “coming to a close” and efforts would turn to providing shelter, food and care to survivors, as the combined death toll in Turkey and Syria tops 36,000, though that number is expected to continue rising. ... More
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