Tel Aviv, January 8 (RHC)-- The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem reports 2021 was the deadliest year for Palestinians since 2014, as Israeli forces killed 313 Palestinians last year, including 71 minors. In addition, Israel demolished nearly 300 residential structures in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem last year — the highest number since 2016. ... More
Paris, January 8 (RHC)-- The United Nations is promoting the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Languages, which begins in 2022, and its main goal is to call the world's attention to the current situation of indigenous languages.... More
Managua, January 8 (RHC)-- Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo reports that numerous governments and social movements have confirmed their attendance to the swearing-in of President-elect Daniel Ortega, an event to be held on Monday, January 10th, in Managua.... More
London, January 8 (RHC)-- Britain's Ministry of Defense began the deployment of the military to support hospitals experiencing staff shortages and extreme pressures due to record COVID-19 cases in the country on Friday.... More
Minneapolis, January 7 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Minnesota, civil rights journalist and activist Mel Reeves has died due to complications of COVID-19. He was 64 years old. ... More
New Delhi, January 7 (RHC)-- India’s new COVID-19 cases have soared by 90,928 in the past 24 hours, up nearly four-fold since the start of the year, mostly from cities where health officials say the Omicron variant has overtaken Delta.... More
Tel Aviv, January 7 (RHC)-- An Israeli local committee has approved plans to build more than 3,500 new illegal settler units in the occupied East al-Quds, irrespective of the international outcry over the Tel Aviv regime’s settlement construction and land expropriation policies.... More
Tel Aviv, January 7 (RHC)-- Israeli officials are seriously concerned that 2022 would be the year when the Tel Aviv regime would be labeled as an apartheid entity due to its measures against Palestinians and occupation of their lands.... More
Nassau, January 7 (RHC)-- Sidney Poitier, who broke racial barriers to become the first U.S. Black actor to win the best actor Oscar award and inspired a generation during the United States civil rights movement, has died, officials said. He was 94.... More
London, January 7 (RHC)-- UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says staffing shortages are causing havoc across numerous industries. To keep essential services open 100,000 critical workers are to be offered daily lateral flow tests. That said, thousands of key workers are already down.... More
Geneva, January 6 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization said a record 9.5 million cases of COVID-19 were tallied around the world last week, marking a 71 percent weekly surge that amounted to a “tsunami” as the new Omicron coronavirus variant sweeps worldwide.... More
Caracas, January 7 (RHC)-- The electric system in Barinas, Venezuelan state -- which repeats the elections for governor on Sunday -- suffered an attack on Friday, perpetrated by the extreme right.... More
Buenos Aires, January 7 (RHC)-- The XXII Summit of Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), began its plenary session in person and virtually, with the attendance of some 30 delegations.... More
Washington, January 7 (RHC)-- The Pentagon is building what The New York Times has described as a new secret courtroom for the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo. ... More
London, January 7 (RHC)-- More than 600,000 people have signed a petition calling for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to have his knighthood removed, only days after Queen Elizabeth awarded him with the title despite his infamous involvement in war crimes during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.... More
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