Tehran, May 20 (RHC)-- Rescue teams have located the wreckage of the helicopter that crashed earlier while carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his companions in northwestern Iran.... More
Melbourne, May 20 (RHC)-- At home in Australia, Julian Assange’s family and friends are preparing for his possible extradition to the United States, ahead of what could be his final hearing in the United Kingdom on Monday.... More
Atlanta, May 20 (RHC)-- In Atlanta, Georgia, a number of graduates at Morehouse College turned their backs on President Joe Biden in a silent protest as he gave the commencement address on Sunday.... More
London, May 20 (RHC)-- Anti-war activists in Britain have demonstrated outside weapons factories against arms shipments to Israel. ... More
Havana, May 19 (RHC)-- The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, expressed his dismay this Sunday over the crash of the helicopter in which his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, was traveling, and conveyed to the people and authorities of Iran Cuba's solidarity and the hope that the Iranian president and his delegation will be found alive and well.... More
Havana, May 19 (RHC) -- Cuba evokes this Sunday the life, work and thoughts of the National Hero José Martí, on the occasion of the 129th anniversary of his fall in combat for the freedom of the island.... More
Madrid, May 19 (RHC)-- Hundreds of demonstrators have rallied in the Spanish capital, calling on the country to cut off its relations with the Israeli regime in protest at Tel Aviv’s atrocities against Palestinians. The rally was held in Madrid on Saturday, with participants chanting slogans in favor of severance of the ties.... More
Gaza City, May 19 (RHC)-- The Israeli army has stepped up attacks across Gaza, killing dozens of Palestinians in the central part of the besieged enclave, as U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan travelled to Israel to hold talks with senior officials.... More
Geneva, May 19 (RHC)-- Nearly 800,000 Palestinians have been displaced from Rafah since Israel launched its offensive against the southern Gaza city last week, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has said. Lazzarini decried the repeated displacement of Palestinians in the statement on Saturday.... More
Tehran, May 19 (RHC)-- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian were on board a helicopter that suffered a “hard landing” in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, says Iranian state media.... More
Geneva, May 19 (RHC)-- A new report says 3.4 million people were displaced in the Gaza Strip by Israel's war, a figure that represents 17 percent of total conflict displacements worldwide last year.... More
Geneva, May 19 (RHC)-- The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories says sanitized jargon used by the Israeli military during assaults against civilians in Gaza is designed to “camouflage” killing.... More
Rafah, May 18 (RHC)-- The International Rescue Committee is warning the scale of the crisis in southern Gaza “defies imagination” as Israel intensifies its attack on Rafah while key border crossings remain shut down. ... More
New York, May 18 (RHC)-- The Washington Post reports a group of billionaires and business interests privately pressured New York City Mayor Eric Adams to deploy police on pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. ... More
United Nations, May 18 (RHC)-- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has reiterated his call for a two-state solution, saying Israel’s ongoing war on the besieged Gaza Strip “is an open wound that threatens to infect the entire region." ... More
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