Ramallah, October 5 (RHC)-- Israeli prison authorities have taken a series of repressive measures against prominent French-Palestinian human rights defender Salah Hamouri, after he started an open-ended hunger strike in protest against the regime’s policy of detention without charge or trial.... More
Atlanta, October 5 (RHC)-- Herschel Walker, a right-wing Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate who has said he opposes abortion with no exceptions, has denied a media report that he paid for a girlfriend’s abortion in 2009.... More
Boise, October 5 (RHC)-- In the United States, the University of Idaho has warned its professors not to discuss contraception with students or to provide reproductive health counseling — at the risk of being fired and charged with a felony. ... More
Ramallah, October 5 (RHC)-- Palestinian leaders are condemning a proposal by Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss to move the United Kingdom’s Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. So far, the U.S. is virtually alone among nations in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, after then-President Trump relocated the U.S. Embassy there in 2018. ... More
Kabul, October 5 (RHC)-- In Afghanistan, the death toll in last week’s attack on an educational center in Kabul has risen to 53, with more than 110 people injured. Most of the victims were young women and girls. ... More
Caracas, October 5 (RHC)-- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, highlighted on Tuesday that his government was moving forward with Colombia in terms of cooperation and thanked the foreign minister of the neo-Granadian nation, Álvaro Leyva, for his willingness for the meeting and understanding between the two countries.... More
Caracas, October 5 (RHC)-- The Colombian government has announced the resumption of peace talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. "The peace talks between our government and the ELN are officially resumed from Caracas, together with the guarantor countries of Venezuela, Cuba and Norway," Colombian President Gustavo Petro tweeted.... More
Berlin, October 5 (RHC)-- People have gathered in the German capital to protest soaring energy and commodity prices, and denounce their government's stance on the war in Ukraine. Germans took to the streets in Berlin for the second time in three days on Monday, saying the government's policies on the war in Ukraine had led to an energy crisis, a stagnant economy and soaring prices.... More
Brussels, October 4 (RHC)-- The EU-Israel Association Council held its first meeting in 10 years. Ahead of the talks, held Monday in Brussels, Amnesty International said in a statement: “Israel is committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians. This is a crime against humanity requiring the EU to hold Israel’s leaders to account, and to ensure it in no way supports their apartheid system. Any cooperation must focus on dismantling Israel’s cruel system of oppression and domination.”... More
London, October 4 (RHC)-- The first preliminary hearing looking into the United Kingdom government’s COVID-19 pandemic response has opened, promising to get to the truth in a process will “not drag on for decades.” Baroness Heather Hallett, a former Court of Appeal judge who chaired the inquiry that began on Tuesday after a one-minute silence, said: “There’s one word that sums up the pandemic for so many, and that is the word ‘loss’.”... More
Quito, October 4 (RHC)-- At least 15 prisoners have been killed and many wounded in the latest riot to hit Ecuador’s troubled prison system. The rioting at the Cotopaxi No 1 jail in Latacunga left “15 people dead and 20 injured,” said a spokesperson for SNAI, the agency that manages Ecuador’s prisons.... More
Sacramento, October 4 (RHC)-- A California high school has canceled the remainder of its football season after members of the team were filmed enacting a prank in which they appeared to “auction” off Black teammates.... More
Port-au-Prince, October 4 (RHC)-- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned of a possible cholera outbreak in Haiti, a country where this disease had not been reported for three years.... More
United Nations, October 4 (RHC)-- The United Nations has increased its aid appeal for Pakistan, where more than five million people are facing a severe food crisis in the wake of recent catastrophic floods.... More
Ramallah, October 4 (RHC)-- A recent report has revealed that at least 100 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and East al-Quds this year, as tensions rise across the occupied territories in the wake of near-daily Israeli military operations.... More
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