Rafah, February 29 (RHC)-- More than 70 people have been killed after Israeli forces fired at Palestinians collecting food aid in the Gaza Strip, taking the total death toll to more than 30,000 since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza nearly five months ago, according to the Ministry of Health in the besieged enclave.... More


Havana, February 29 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel reiterated today the call to the people of the island to participate in the world mobilization in support of Palestine on Saturday, March 2nd.... More


Havana, Feb 29 (RHC) Leaders of the Communist Parties of Cuba and Vietnam agreed today to further promote the role of these organizations in advising and promoting the deployment of high-level bilateral agreements.... More


Geneva, February 29 (RHC)-- Israeli troops continue to sexually assault the Palestinian women they abduct as part of a larger vicious campaign to dehumanize all the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, especially women and children, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says.... More


Gaza City, February 29 (RHC)-- At least 70 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds more injured in an attack by Israeli military forces on the northern Gaza Strip, on people waiting for humanitarian aid. ... More


London, February 29 (RHC)-- On February 20 and 21, as hundreds of Julian Assange’s supporters gathered outside the London courthouse, a two-judge panel of the High Court of Justice presided over a “permission hearing.”  Assange’s lawyers asked the judges to allow them to appeal the home secretary’s extradition order and raise issues that the district court judge had rejected without full consideration.... More


Gaza City, February 29 (RHC)-- Six children have died from dehydration and malnutrition at hospitals in northern Gaza, the Health Ministry in the besieged Palestinian territory has said, as the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave worsens.... More


United Nations, February 28 (RHC)-- Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations says an alternative draft resolution Washington has proposed on the situation in the besieged Gaza Strip simply paves the way for more Palestinian civilian deaths.... More


New York, February 28 (RHC)-- In media news, more than 50 prominent broadcast journalists have signed an open letter calling for “unfettered access” to Gaza.  Signatories on the letter included journalists from the BBC, NBC, Sky News, CNN, ABC and CBS. ... More


Mexico City, February 28 (RHC)-- In Mexico, two mayoral candidates from the state of Michoacán were killed Monday, within hours of each other.  Miguel Ángel Zavala and Armando Pérez Luna were preparing to begin their campaigns for mayor of Maravatío in the coming days when they were gunned down in separate incidents.  Both candidates were found shot to death in their cars.... More


Havana, February 28 (RHC) -- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel continues on Wednesday his tour of productive entities that did not achieve the expected efficiency results by the end of 2023.... More


Tel Aviv, February 28 (RHC)-- Israel is building a town exclusively for Jewish Israelis.  To do so, it is building over homes it destroyed in Umm al-Hiran, a Palestinian Bedouin village in southern Israel.... More


Dublin, February 28 (RHC)-- Ireland’s senate has unanimously voted to impose sanctions against Israel and prevent the passage of U.S. weapons to Israel via Irish airspace.  Senators also voted to call for an international arms embargo against Israel. ... More


United Nations, February 28 (RHC)-- The United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food has accused Israel of committing war crimes by intentionally depriving food to Gaza.  ... More


Havana, February 28 (PL) - Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic and Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi stand out among those nominated by Laureus World Sports for the "World Sportsman of the Year" award.... More


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