Geneva, June 15 (RHC)-- The United Nations human rights chief has called on Israeli authorities to open a criminal investigation into circumstances surrounding the the killing of veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead last month while covering an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank, and to hold perpetrators to account.... More

Washington, June 14 (RDC)-- Over 100 million people are under heat advisories in the United States as an early-season heat wave continues to break records from the Southwest to the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes. ... More

Quito, June 14 (RHC)-- The Indigenous and Peasant Movement of Cotopaxi, Ecuador, has issued a call to all its communes, communities and grassroots organizations to what it called the "Great Indigenous and popular uprising in defense of our agenda of struggle and for the release of our maximum representative of the indigenous peoples and nationalities," in reference to the detained Leonidas Iza.... More

New Delhi, June 14 (RHC)-- Microscopic air pollution caused mostly by burning fossil fuels is reducing life expectancy by nearly 10 years in the Indian capital, one of the most polluted cities in the world, according to a new study.... More

Kuwait City, June 14 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as part of his first official visit to Kuwait, met on Tuesday with the next secretary general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Kuwaiti Haitham al-Ghais.... More

Washington, June 14 (RHC)-- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged for the first time that nine children may have died after consuming contaminated baby formula made by Abbott at the largest baby formula manufacturing plant in the nation. ... More

Rabat, June 14 (RHC)-- A group of Moroccan journalists have condemned the U.S.-sponsored normalization of diplomatic relations between the North African country and Israel, and demanded closure of the office of Israel's i24NEWS television news channel in the capital Rabat.... More