Gaza City, July 8 (RHC)-- Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza Strip are preparing for Eid al-Adha or the Feast of Sacrifice amid dire economic conditions.  The sacred Muslim occasion comes at the end of the Hajj season and it will be observed in Palestine on Saturday.... More


Washington, July 8 (RHC)-- The U.S. Department of Defense is seeking to recover unauthorized money received by the Trump administration's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn.... More


Madison, July 8 (RHC)-- The Wisconsin Supreme Court is allowing sex trafficking survivor Chrystul Kizer to argue in court that she was justified in killing her trafficker. The ruling argued a 2008 state law that protects trafficking survivors from criminal liability for any acts committed as a result of trafficking extends to first-degree murder.... More


Paris, July 8 (RHC)-- People in the villages of Bordezac and other small settlements in the Besseges area have been evacuated, with local officials saying around 100 had to be put up for the night.... More


Akron, July 8 (RHC)-- In the U.S., residents of Akron, Ohio, were ordered to spend another night under curfew Thursday as protesters continue to demand justice for Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man killed in a hail of police gunfire on June 27th. ... More


United Nations, July 8 (RHC)-- The United Nations has warned that the Israeli regime’s forcible mass eviction of approximately 1,200 Palestinians from their homes in the Masafer Yatta area of the occupied West Bank amounts to a “war crime.”... More


Port-au-Prince, July 8 (RHC)-- Haiti commemorated the one-year anniversary of the murder of President Jovenel Moise by U.S.-trained assassins amid growing protests over stalled probe into the incident.... More


Austin, July 8 (RHC)-- In what he called an “unprecedented action” made necessary because “President Biden refuses to do his job,” Texas Govenor Greg Abbott has issued an executive order authorizing his state’s National Guard and the Texas Department of Public Safety to arrest immigrants who illegally cross the border between ports of entry and return them to Mexico.... More


London, July 8 (RHC)-- After decades of fighting, the victims and the families of those whose lives were impacted by the Factor VIII blood contamination scandal could be headed for compensation – of sorts.... More


La Paz, July 8 (RHC)-- The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, warned Thursday that the right wing is trying to manipulate various trade union sectors in order to divide and destabilize the country.... More


Caracas, July 8 (RHC)-- China has officially endorsed Argentina's bid to join the BRICS.  The request's endorsement and formalization came at the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting held in Indonesia, where Argentina's Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero met with his counterpart from China, Wang Yi.... More


Caracas, July 8 (RHC)-- "I ratify Padrino López as Minister of Defense, just as the rest of the Senior Staff is ratified," Maduro informed during a ceremony held at the Patio de las Academias de Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela's largest military complex, located in southeastern Caracas.... More


Luanda, July 8 (RHC)-- Angola’s former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa’s second-biggest oil producer for 38 years, has died aged 79, the Angolan presidency has said on Facebook.... More


Minneapolis, July 8 (RHC)-- A U.S. federal court has sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating the civil rights of George Floyd, a Black man killed when Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes in an incident that sparked mass protests.... More


United Nations, July 8 (RHC)-- The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Wednesday warned of a "dire" rise in hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean, after the number of people suffering from hunger in the region grew by 4 million between 2020 and 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.... More


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