Washington, May 16 (RHC)-- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has denounced the Biden administration’s support of Israeli bombing of “innocent men, women and children in Gaza,” saying it will boycott the White House’s annual Eid celebration.... More
United Nations, May 16 (RHC)-- UN head Antonio Guterres expressed dismay over growing civilian casualties in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and criticized the destruction of media offices in Gaza. The Israeli Army claims the tower housed Hamas operatives.... More
Santiago de Chile, May 16 (RHC)-- Chileans are voting on Sunday in a second day of polls to elect 155 delegates to the Constituent Assembly, which will rewrite the country’s dictatorship-era constitution in a bid to address deep-seated social inequality that sparked deadly protests in 2019.... More
Paris, May 16 (RHC)-- Hundreds of thousands of protesters have marched across the world in support of Palestinians amid the worst Israeli-Palestinian violence since the 2014 Gaza war. ... More
Gaza City, May 16 (RHC)-- An Israeli airstrike Saturday leveled a high-rise building after the military ordered occupants to evacuate. Inside were the offices of several media outlets -- including The Associated Press and Al-Jazeera -- as well as residential apartments.... More
Bogota, May 16 (RHC)-- The Red de Derechos Humanos del Suroccidente de Colombia "Francisco Isaías Cifuentes" (REDFIC) -- the Human Rights Network of Southwest Colombia -- published this Saturday a report detailing the cases of sexual aggression against women in the context of the constant denunciations of repression by the security forces against demonstrators.... More
Tehran, May 16 (RHC)-- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has cancelled an official trip to Austria after authorities in Vienna raised Israeli flags in solidarity with Tel Aviv in its war on Gaza.... More
San Salvador, May 16 (RHC)-- The buried bodies of seven women and three children were discovered on the property of a former police officer in El Salvador. Hugo Osorio Chavez Osorio, 51, is being investigated on suspicion of sex crimes and 13 murders, the country’s attorney general’s office said.... More
Gaza City, May 16 (RHC)-- Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip has entered its seventh consecutive day, with air raids in the early hours of Sunday killing at least four Palestinians, wounding dozens more and flattening at least two residential buildings.... More
Ramallah, May 15 (RH)-- Israeli forces wounded dozens of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during protests to mark the Nakba, when nearly 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes to make way for the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.... More
Caracas, May 15 (RHC)-- Venezuela's Minister of Defense, General in Chief Vladimir Padrino, denounced this Saturday the kidnapping of eight Venezuelan soldiers during operations being waged in Apure state against Colombian irregular armed groups, and reiterated that national sovereignty is non-negotiable.... More
Doha, May 15 (RHC)-- The news agency Al Jazeera condemns in the strongest terms the bombing and destruction of its offices by the Israeli military in Gaza and views this as a clear act to stop journalists from conducting their sacred duty to inform the world and report events on the ground.... More
Ramallah, May 15 (RHC)-- Palestinians on Saturday gathered in parts of the occupied West Bank to protest against continued Israeli occupation and the ongoing bombardment of Gaza. The protesters were met by Israeli occupation troops that brutally repressed the demonstrators.... More
Gaza City, May 15 (RHC)-- Israel is deliberately obliterating media buildings in Gaza to cover up the war crimes that are taking place. Observers said that the destruction of two important Gaza buildings housing 20 media outlets was both shocking and predictable. Among the news agencies with offices and media equipment in the building was the U.S.-based agency Associated Press and the Qatar-based Al Jazeera.... More
Santiago de Chile, May 15 (RHC)-- Chile begun on Saturday the first day of elections in which almost 15 million people will elect those in charge of drafting the new Constitution, governors, mayors and councilors.... More
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