Gaza City, March 12 (RHC)-- The charity ship Open Arms has left a port in Cyprus towing relief supplies bound for Gaza as part of an international effort to launch a maritime corridor to break the naval Israeli blockade amid the US-backed Israeli war on the territory.... More


Caracas, March 12 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has announced that "the observers who want to come" to the presidential elections scheduled for next July 28th, as long as they respect the sovereignty of the South American nation, will be welcome.... More


Tehran, March 12 (RHC)-- A former Palestinian prisoner says what is happening to Palestinians in the Israeli jails is “harsher” than the way inmates were treated in the notorious U.S.-run prisons of Guantanamo Bay in southeastern Cuba and Abu Ghraib in Iraq.... More


Beirut, March 12 (RHC)-- A senior Hezbollah official says the resistance movement is highly prepared for “an eye for an eye” retaliation against Israel if the occupying regime launches an aggression against Lebanon.... More


Havana, March 12 (RHC) A representation of the Federation of Cuban Women headed by its general secretary, Teresa Amarelle Boué, has participated since Monday in the sessions of the Commission on the Legal and Social Status of Women based in the United Nations.... More


Havana, March 12 (RHC) The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, today denounced that the Helms-Burton Law codifies the blockade and is an economic aggression by the United States Government against the island.... More


Havana, March 12 (RHC) Cuba is preparing to hold the first International Workshop on Quality and Sustainable Vocational Training, a topic of vital importance for the best preparation of educators for their students.... More


New York, March 12 (RHC)-- Prominent progressive organizations in the United States are forming a coalition to defend those lawmakers targeted by the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and counter its sway in Congress.... More


United Nations, March 12 (RHC)-- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Israel has to stop “the killing, bombing and bloodshed” in the Gaza Strip to honor the spirit of the holy month of Ramadan.  Guterres told reporters on Monday that by the start of Ramadan, "Muslims around the world celebrate and spread the values of peace, reconciliation and solidarity."... More


Tehran, March 12 (RHC)-- Congratulating the Muslim world on the occasion of Ramadan, Iran calls on Muslim countries to unite against the Israeli regime's ongoing genocidal war against the Gaza Strip on the occasion of the arrival of the holy fasting month.... More


Gaza City, March 12 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have reportedly again attacked Palestinians waiting for aid trucks at the Kuwait roundabout south of Gaza City, killing seven people, the Wafa news agency reports.... More


Kingston, March 12 (RHC)-- Local media sources report that Jamaica's Minister of National Security, Horace Chang, confirmed that the country will take in orphans from Haiti, amid growing social challenges in the Caribbean nation, particularly in Port-au-Prince.... More


Caracas, March 12 (RHC)-- More than four million militants of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela -PSUV-, elected President Nicolas Maduro as the formation's candidate for the July 28 elections, an authority informed today.... More


United Nations, March 12 (RHC)-- The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has warned of the “tragic” situation in the northern Gaza Strip, calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the besieged territory with the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan.... More


Gaza City, March 12 (RHC)-- Hamas says humanitarian aid airdrops do not meet even one percent of demand for aid in Gaza.  A senior official of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says airdropping of humanitarian aid into Gaza is “useless," as the aids are not sufficient.... More


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