United Nations, September 20 (RHC)-- The 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly opened Monday with an appeal for urgent action on hunger, poverty, racial and gender inequality and the climate crisis. ... More
Occupied East Jerusalem, September 20 (RHC)-- Palestinian schools in occupied East Jerusalem are observing a general strike in protest at attempts by Israel’s Jerusalem municipality to censor and edit Palestinian textbooks, as well as introduce an Israeli curriculum in classrooms.... More
Santo Domingo, September 19 (RHC)-- Hurricane Fiona made landfall in the Dominican Republic one day after the storm knocked out power across Puerto Rico and caused what the island’s governor described as “catastrophic” damage.... More
New York, September 19 (RHC)-- The 77th United Nations General Assembly opened on Monday with the climate emergency and the war in Ukraine taking center stage.... More
Ottawa, September 19 (RHC)-- The human rights commission chief for Canada’s western province of Alberta has been removed over Islamophobic comments he made in 2009. Collin May, a lawyer from Calgary, was forced to resign after a number of Canadian community organizations called for his removal.... More
Washington, September 19 (RHC)-- A lengthy report by the United States Senate on the CIA’s brutal “enhanced interrogation” methods will remain classified for the sake of “national security.” The compilation of the report, whose full title is The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program, was conducted by the bipartisan US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) on the CIA’s so-called Detention and Interrogation Program and the spy agency’s use of torture during interrogation in US government communiqués on detainees in CIA custody.... More
United Nations, September 19 (RHC)-- The United Nations has said that Israel destroyed 44 Palestinian buildings in the West Bank as the usurping regime presses ahead with its illegal land grab policies across the Palestinian territories.... More
Nairobi, September 19 (RHC)-- Former chief justice of Kenya, Willy Mutunga, has attacked the British government over "act of gross inhumanity and injustice" one month after two Kenyan tribes filed a case against the British government at the European Court of Human Rights over alleged colonial abuses.... More
United Nations, September 19 (RHC)-- A Syrian envoy to the UN has urged the international community to compel Israel to join Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) while also slamming Washington’s double standards and support for the occupying regime.... More
Bogota, September 19 (RHC)-- Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that his government has begun an informal dialogue with dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).... More
Damascus, September 19 (RHC)-- The U.S.'s biggest illegal military base in Syria has come under rocket attack, hours after another installation housing American forces was similarly targeted with projectiles.... More
San Juan, September 19 (RHC)-- Hurricane Fiona made landfall along the extreme southwestern coast of Puerto Rico, near Punta Tocon, at 3:20 p.m. local time on Sunday with winds of 85 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.... More
Caracas, September 19 (RHC)--Venezuela has rejected the U.S. government's memorandum on drug-producing countries and condemned its interfering role. "In this infamous publication the faithful fulfillment of the international commitments of the Bolivarian Government, whose tenor to address the ongoing fight against illicit drug trafficking has been under the foundations of the United Nations," said the Foreign Ministry.... More
Port-au-Prince, September 19 (RHC)-- Thousands in Haiti faced are facing water shortages after days of protest virtually halted distribution, witnesses said. Many residents of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince have been forced to shelter at home this week as gunfire broke out and burning tires blocked streets during protests over fuel price hikes and crime.... More
Gaza City, September 18 (RHC)-- The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has commended Chilean President Gabriel Boric's refusal to accept the credentials of the Israeli regime's new ambassador to the Latin American country.... More
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