Ramallah, January 31 (RHC)-- Israel has sealed off the home of a Palestinian man who alledgelykilled seven people outside a synagogue in occupied East Jerusalem, in a preliminary step ahead of the expected demolition of the building.... More
Peshawar, January 30 (RHC)-- In Pakistan, at least 34 people were killed and 150 others wounded after a suicide bomber attacked a mosque earlier today in the city of Peshawar. Part of the building collapsed as the bomb ripped through the mosque during noon prayers; authorities fear people may still be trapped in the rubble. ... More
Bogota, January 30 (RHC)-- The Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz) denounced on Monday a new massacre that claimed the lives of four people, while six others were injured.... More
Port-au-Prince, January 30 (RHC)-- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates that 2.6 million children and adolescents in Haiti will need immediate humanitarian aid this year 2023 due to the severe crisis that the Caribbean country is going through.... More
Memphis, January 30 (RHC)-- The city of Memphis in the United States has disbanded a police unit that included five officers charged with the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist. Cerelyn ‘CJ’ Davis, the Memphis police chief, announced the move over the weekend, citing a “cloud of dishonour.”... More
Tel Aviv, January 30 (RHC)-- Israel has announced plans to make it easier for Israelis to get firearms amid escalating violence in the occupied Palestinian territory. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the measure late on Saturday after convening a meeting of his security cabinet — filled with hardline politicians — over a pair of shootings that included an attack in occupied East Jerusalem.... More
Tegucigalpa, January 30 (RHC)-- The Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (Ofraneh) and the Committee for the Defense of the Land denounced this Sunday the murder of another Garífuna leader in the Triunfo de la Cruz sector, on the Atlantic coast, in the north of the country.... More
London, January 30 (RHC)-- An independent team of United Nations human rights experts has found racism in the United Kingdom to be systemic and eroding the rights of people of color. Racism in the UK is “structural, institutional and systemic,” the UN human rights experts said on Friday, warning that Black people in the country continue to encounter discrimination and erosion of their fundamental rights.... More
Tel Aviv, January 30 (RHC)-- A far-right Israeli lawmaker has been suspended from Twitter after tweeting his support for a deadly raid by regime forces and urging them to “keep killing them.” Far-right Almog Cohen of the Otzma Yehudit party tweeted: "Nice and professional work by the fighters in Jenin, keep killing them." ... More
The Hague, January 29 (RHC)-- The International Criminal Court says it will resume its investigation into possible crimes against humanity committed as part of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs. The probe was suspended in November 2021 after Philippine officials said they were conducting their own review of the crimes.... More
Lima, January 29 (RHC)-- Police in Peru on Saturday repressed protesters who are demanding the resignation of President-designate Dina Boluarte and tried to reach the Congress headquarters.... More
Lisbon, January 29 (RHC)-- Tens of thousands of public school teachers and school staff have marched through the streets of capital Lisbon to demand higher wages and better working conditions. The Saturday demonstrations were seen as a further step by the country’s teachers to put more pressure on the Portuguese government as it grapples with a cost of living crisis.... More
London, January 29 (RHC)-- BBC Arabic Radio has gone off air after 85 years of broadcasting as part of a plan to cut costs and focus on digital programming. The corporation said it is cutting hundreds of jobs in its World Service and has been forced to make the cuts because of the United Kingdom government’s imposition of a freeze on the license fee money it receives.... More
Ramallah, January 29 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have opened direct fire on Palestinian journalists in the flashpoint town of Beita, near the West Bank city of Nablus, as tensions continue to escalate in the occupied territories.... More
London, January 28 (RHC)-- Around 100,000 British civil servants have announced plans to strike this coming Wednesday, February 1st, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has announced, in an escalation of a long-running dispute over pay and conditions. ... More
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