Albuquerque, October 10 (RHC)-- In New Mexico, immigrant justice organizations report a group of asylum seekers held at the Torrance County Detention Facility have been on hunger strike since last week, protesting inhumane and unsanitary conditions. ... More
Ramallah, October 10 (RHC)-- The Israeli military has placed a Palestinian refugee camp and a nearby town in the central part of the Tel Aviv-occupied West Bank under lockdown as part of a hunt for the suspect of an earlier shooting incident that killed an Israeli soldier.... More
The Hague, October 10 (RHC)-- The Israeli human rights group B'tselem has written to the International Criminal Court in an attempt to prevent the forced expulsion of over a thousand Palestinians from their homes, in order to create a military firing zone, or training ground for Israeli occupation forces.... More
Washington, October 10 (RHC)-- A new report finds the World Bank has financed at least $14.8 billion in fossil fuel development since the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015. That’s despite a pledge by World Bank officials roughly five years ago to stop supporting oil and gas projects within two years. ... More
Paris, October 10 (RHC)-- Scores of French intellectuals have urged the nation to rise in protest against President Emmanuel Macron's failure to improve economic conditions amid rising inflation. The 69 signatories, including France's first Nobel literature prize winner Annie Ernaux, denounced the head of state for failing to close up the yawning gap between the country's rich and poor classes, read a text published by Le Journal du Dimanche weekly paper on Sunday.... More
Jerusalem, October 9 (RHC)-- An Israeli soldier has been killed while two others have been injured in a shooting attack in the occupied East al-Quds. The Israeli army said early Sunday that the casualties came Saturday evening in the shooting attack in Shuafat refugee camp checkpoint, Palestine’s Shehab news agency reported.... More
Ramallah, October 9 (RHC)-- Israeli soldiers have shot dead two Palestinians during a military raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said, in the latest confrontation that has made 2022 the deadliest year of violence in the occupied territory in nearly a decade.... More
Tegucigalpa, October 9 (RHC)-- The Government of Honduras decreed this Sunday the Red Alert, maximum in its risk scale, before the eventual onslaught of Tropical Storm Julia.... More
Bluefields, October 9 (RHC)-- The center of Hurricane Julia made landfall early Sunday morning in an area near Laguna de Perlas, on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, as a Category 1 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale.... More
United Nations, October 9 (RHC)-- The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution for better access to international financing to help developing nations mitigate and adapt to increasingly calamitous climate change.... More
Brasilia, October 9 (RHC)-- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has broken a record for the month of September, continuing a trend that has accelerated during the tenure of the country’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.... More
London, October 8 (RHC)-- Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange formed a human chain outside Britain's parliament on Saturday to demand an end to an attempt by the United States to have him extradited to face criminal charges.... More
Port-au-Prince, October 8 (RHC)-- The Haitian government is seeking assistance from foreign armed forces, officials have said, as the Caribbean country struggles to respond to escalating gang violence. ... More
New York, Octoer 8 (RHC)-- A U.S. federal judge has blocked major portions of a state law restricting who can carry concealed firearms in public spaces. District Court Judge Glenn Suddaby ruled that New York’s attempts to bar guns from so-called sensitive spaces — including schools, libraries, museums and theaters — violated the constitutional right to carry a firearm for the purposes of self-defense. ... More
Ramallah, October 8 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have shot and killed two Palestinian teenagers in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, in the latest deadly act of violence committed by the regime against the oppressed people of Palestine.... More
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