Geneva, July 5 (RHC)-- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has condemned the "unacceptable" abuse and torture of Palestinian detainees by the Israeli forces amid the occupying regime’s months-long onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip.... More


Washington, July 5 (RHC)-- Western states, particularly the United States, Germany, Italy and Britain, continue to be the main suppliers of lethal weapons to Israel in defiance of calls to end their complicity in the regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, reports say.... More


London, July 5 (RHC)-- Rishi Sunak, Conservative UK Prime Minister since October 2022, has suffered a huge defeat, handing a landslide victory to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer as Election Day in Britain ushers in a new era in British politics.... More


Gaza City, July 5 (RHC)-- Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks have killed at least 28 Palestinians and wounded 125 others in the past 24 hours, after Israel’s military put a quarter-million Palestinians in the city of Khan Younis under evacuation orders. ... More


Sanaa, July 5 (RHC)-- American and British warplanes have carried out at least four airstrikes against the western Yemeni provinces of al-Hudaydah and al-Hajjah in a fresh attempt at stopping the country’s anti-Israeli operations.... More


Beirut, July 5 (RHC)-- Lebanon’s Hezbollah has struck a number of Israeli military sites with more than 200 missiles and drones in retaliation for the regime’s assassination of a top commander of the popular resistance movement in the country’s south.... More


Havana, July 4 (RHC)-- The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel, addressed this Thursday realities and experiences accumulated by that political organization and the Government of the island in tours that he leads to evaluate local development programs in the municipalities.... More


Washington, July 4 (RHC)-- For hundreds of millions across the world, the stars and stripes are symbols of U.S. empire, not independence.... More


On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a keynote address at an Independence Day celebration and asked, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”  Douglass was a powerful orator, often traveling six months out of the year to give lectures on abolition.  His speech, given at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was held at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. It was a scathing speech in which Douglass stated: “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine, You may rejoice, I must mourn.”... More


Havana, July 4 (RHC) At the recent meeting of the Council of Ministers, the Minister of Economy and Planning, Joaquín Alonso Vázquez, reported on the behavior of the economy at the end of 2023, which shows a decline compared to the previous year, and the estimate for the first half of 2024.... More


Havana, Jul 4 (JIT) - Cuban Cristian Jesús Álvarez will make his debut today in the artistic modality of the Pan American Skating Championship of Ibagué 2024, in Colombia. ... More


Havana, July 4 (RHC) The president of the National Assembly of Peoples Power Esteban Lazo Hernández, headed the debate and analysis of the draft laws on Citizenship and Foreigners in the National Capitol on Wednesday.... More


Caracas, July 4 (RHC)-- The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) called for a large march this Thursday at the national level, called the Great March for Victory, to support the administration of President Nicolás Maduro Moros, candidate of the people, peace and unity for the presidential elections on July 28th.... More


Cairo, July 4 (RHC)--  Hamas’ Political Bureau chief has contacted Qatari and Egyptian mediators as means of keeping up discussion about underway efforts at reaching a potential truce deal that could end the Israeli regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.... More


Havana, July 4 (RHC) The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations has released a congratulatory message through its official account on X, on the occasion of today's celebration of the 51st anniversary of the creation of the Community of Caribbean States (Caricom).... More


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