Beirut, February 17 (RHC)-- The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah says the Israeli regime will “pay with blood” the price for the recent killing of civilians in the country’s south, stressing that the massacre will not force the resistance movement to back down from supporting Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.... More
The Hague, February 17 (RHC)-- The top United Nations court said that it notes the “perilous” situation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but has declined South Africa’s request for urgent measures to safeguard Palestinians being threatened by an Israeli ground assault there.... More
Rio de Janeiro, February 17 (RHC)-- Yellow and green feathers radiating from his headdress, Davi Kopenawa strode onto the parade route with a mission in mind. All around him, the city of Rio de Janeiro was pulsing with music and merry-making: It was February 12, and the world’s largest Carnival celebration was under way. But Kopenawa was not in town to party... More
Buenos Aires, February 17 (RHC)-- Argentinian President Javier Milei told the media on Friday that he has no plans to sign a decree to update the minimum living and mobile wage, amid the inflationary process facing the country, and said he has no plans to convene a national teachers' union meeting.... More
New York, February 16 (RHC)-- A number of Arab countries are reportedly “increasingly restricting” the United States and its allies from conducting attacks from their soil against Iran and resistant groups in the West Asia region amid the Israeli onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip.... More
United Nations, February 16 (RHC)-- Fears are mounting over a planned Israeli ground attack on some 1.4 million people in Rafah. Even the U.S. has said the move would be a “disaster” without a realistic evacuation plan. The U.N. and others say there is no plausible way to evacuate Rafah.... More
Washington, February 16 (RHC)-- In the U.S., climate groups have sued the Biden administration over its failure to adequately assess the public health impacts on frontline communities in its five-year plan for offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. ... More
Havana, February 16 (RHC) -- The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CC-PCC) and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel arrived Friday in the municipality of Camajuaní, in the central province of Villa Clara, to hold exchanges with groups involved in the country's economic and social development.... More
San Francisco, February 16 (RHC)-- Students at Stanford University near San Fransisco, California, are ending a months-long sit-in to demand the university call for a ceasefire in Gaza and divest from Israeli companies complicit in war crimes, among other demands.... More
Havana, February 16 (RHC) Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel reaffirmed this Friday the historic ties of friendship, cooperation and brotherhood that unite his country and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).... More
Havana, February 16 (RHC) Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel recalled this Friday the 121 years since the signing of the agreement that allowed the illegal establishment of the US naval base in Guantánamo.... More
New York, February 16 (RHC)-- Seventy-two of the 99 journalists killed worldwide in 2023 were Palestinians reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza, making those 12 months the deadliest for the media in almost a decade, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).... More
Havana, February 16 (RHC) The University of Camagüey, Cuba, seeks to expand its academic ties in Europe, with the signing of an agreement with the Center for International Cooperation in Research Agronomic for development (CIRAD), France.... More
Rome, February 16 (RHC)-- A number of lawmakers from the once anti-establishment Five Star Movement, the Italian left and Green Europe parties, and the Democratic Party, gathered in Parliament Square chanting that the Israeli bombardment of Gaza must stop now.... More
Geneva, February 16 (RHC)-- The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has denounced “short-sighted” calls to have the agency dismantled amid the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. The agency’s chief Philippe Lazzarini said he warned the member states at a meeting in Geneva “about all these calls to have UNRWA dismantled, to be terminated.”... More
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