Beijing, August 19 (RHC)-- At least 16 people were killed and 18 others were missing after a sudden rainstorm in western China triggered a landslide that diverted a river and caused flash flooding in populated areas, Chinese state media has reported.... More


Doha, August 19 (RHC)-- Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) has held a series of events to mark 100 days since the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.  Thursday’s solidarity vigils took place at the network’s headquarters in the Qatari capital of Doha and across its offices around the world. Dozens of AJMN employees participated in the events.... More


Tel Aviv, August 19 (RHC)-- The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting an internal Israeli military report has acknowledged that an Israeli airstrike near the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza killed five Palestinian children on August 7th.  The youngest child was 4 years old. ... More


Washington, August 19 (RHC)-- The New York Times has revealed the FBI interviewed two of Donald Trump’s top White House lawyers earlier this year about classified documents being stored at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. ... More


Kabul, August 18 (RHC)-- A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers on Wednesday killed at least 10 people, including a prominent cleric, an eyewitness and police said.... More


San Salvador, August 18 (RHC)-- El Salvador’s Congress has approved a one-month extension to a state of exception used to round up alleged gang members, as the chief of police announced more than 50,000 people had been detained under the extraordinary measures.... More


Brasilia, August 18 (RHC)-- The former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is leading the polls for the next presidential elections, said Wednesday that the current far-right leader, Jair Bolsonaro, does not like democracy.... More


London, August 18 (RHC)-- Thousands of people in Britain infected with HIV and hepatitis C through contaminated blood transfusions will receive a compensation payment decades after the scandal, according to the UK government.... More


Kuwait City, August 18 (RHC)-- A recent opinion poll has shown that most Kuwaitis support boycott of Israel and reject a normalization of relations with the occupying regime.... More


Tehran, August 18 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement’s representative to Iran says resistance against the occupying Israeli regime will continue until the entire Palestinian land is liberated.... More


Washington, August 18 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican rebel Liz Cheney has vowed to do “whatever it takes” to deny former president Donald Trump second term after losing her seat in Congress to a Trump-backed Republican in Wyoming on Tuesday.... More


London, August 18 (RHC)-- British consumer price inflation jumped to 10.1 percent in July, its highest since February 1982, up from an annual rate of 9.4 percent in June, intensifying the squeeze on households, according to official figures.... More


Lima, August 18 (RHC)-- The president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, met at the Government Palace with thousands of mining workers and union representatives of the Port of Callao to attend to their urgent needs and to gather popular support against the vacancy process that Congress is processing against him... More


Mexico City, August 17 (RHC)-- Mexico's Health Ministry has reported 252 confirmed cases of Monkeypox this week nationwide and one death.  As of August 15, the Ministry said that 610 suspected cases had been reported, 252 have been confirmed, 131 are under study, and 227 have been ruled out.... More


Caracas, August 17 (RHC)-- Argentinean ambassador in Caracas, Óscar Laborde, has criticized the judicial order to seize the Venezuelan airplane held in his country, considering it a 'kidnapping.'  "Objectively, it was seized because the judge has ruled in the case."... More


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