Washington, May 13 (RHC)-- A Republican member of the U.S. Congress has drafted articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden, alleging that Biden has abused his executive branch powers by conditioning the transfer of some U.S. weapons to Israel.... More


Caracas, May 13 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says that the Bolivarian Revolution and the people have identified a paradigm of revolutionary information to overcome the censorship of the hegemonic media, and make known the reality and recovery of the country.... More


East Jerusalem, May 13 (RHC)-- U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jacob Lew has downplayed Washington's recent decision to hold back the delivery of high-payload munitions, noting that the Biden administration decided to keep arming Israel after conducting an assessment into Israeli actions in Gaza.... More


Gaza City, May 13 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip says the ongoing Israeli onslaught has claimed the lives of hundreds of doctors and medical staff across the besieged territory.... More


Geneva, May 13 (RHC)-- The head of the United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has rejected Israel’s claim about setting up so-called safe zones for the displaced people of Gaza as “false and misleading.”  UNRWA’s Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini made the remark in a Sunday post on X social media platform.... More


Gaza City, May 13 (RHC)-- Israeli military tanks have started to go deeper into the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as part of a ground offensive months after claiming Hamas had been “dismantled” in the area.... More


Pretoria, May 13 (RHC)-- South Africa has sounded the alarm on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and called for urgent action to put an end to the suffering of the nation including women and children.... More


Geneva, May 12 (RHC)-- UN rights chief Volker Turk says a full-scale Israeli assault on the city of Rafah “cannot take place.”... More


Berlin, May 12 (RHC)-- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has warned Israel against expanding its military operations to Rafah.  “We consider an offensive on Rafah … to be irresponsible,” Scholz said on Saturday at a talk show organised by the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) media group in Potsdam just outside Berlin.... More


Bogota, May 12 (RHC)-- The Colombian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement in which it asks for respect from the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, for having described President Gustavo Petro as an anti-Semitic.... More


Gaza City, May 12 (RHC)-- The death toll from the seventh month of the Israeli military offensive in Gaza has topped 35,000, according to the Health Ministry in the Palestinian enclave.... More


United Nations, May 12 (RHC)-- A joint study by the UNDP and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), found that the poverty rate in Palestine has surged to 58.4 percent since Israel’s Gaza offensive, pushing nearly 1.74 million additional people into poverty.... More


Brussels, May 12 (RHC)-- European Union diplomat Josep Borrell has strongly criticized Israel’s latest evacuation orders for Rafah, saying forcing civilians to evacuate “to unsafe zones is intolerable.”  He again urged Israel not to go ahead with a ground assault on the southern city, saying the move would “further exacerbate an already dire humanitarian situation.”... More


Richmond, May 12 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Virginia, the Shenandoah County School Board has voted to restore the former names of two elementary schools to honor Confederate leaders. ... More


Rafah, May 11 (RHC)-- Israel issued new evacuation orders in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, forcing tens of thousands more people to move as it prepares to expand its military operation.  With Saturday’s orders, Israeli forces have now evacuated the eastern third of Rafah, pushing into the edges of the heavily populated central area.... More


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