Panama City, May 6 (RHC)-- The Electoral Court of Panama called José Mulino (substitute for Ricardo Martinelli) on Sunday night to tell him that, according to the quick count (preliminary results) of the presidential elections, he would be the new elected president of that Central American nation.... More


Jerusalem, May 6 (RHC)-- Israeli satellite and cable television providers suspended broadcasts of Al Jazeera after the government decision to shut down the network’s operations in Israel for as long as the war on Gaza continues.... More


Olympia, May 6 (RHC)--  The father of a pro-Palestine American activist, who was mercilessly killed by the Israeli regime forces in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah in 2003, has praised a move by his late daughter’s college to agree to the academic demonstrators’ demands regarding divestment from the occupying entity in support of Palestinians.... More


Geneva, May 6 (RHC)-- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has sounded the alarm about the psychological suffering facing the children in the Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing Israeli regime forces attacks on the defenseless people trapped on the besieged enclave.... More


London, May 5 (RHC)-- Students at several universities across the UK, including the prestigious University College London (UC), have launched tent encampments demanding their universities divest from firms that supply arms to Israel and end any potential complicity in the regime’s genocidal war on Gaza.... More


Toronto, May 5 (RHC)-- A Canada-based activist group says Palestinian supporters have faced an unprecedented level of repression and prosecution across the North American country due to their stance against Israel's savage military campaign in Gaza.... More


Caracas, May 5 (RHC)-- The Government of President Nicolás Maduro and the people of Venezuela expressed their solidarity and offered support to the authorities and citizens of Brazil in the face of the effects of the intense rains in Rio Grande do Sul, which have caused damage and victims in recent hours, reported this Friday the Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil.... More


Gaza City, May 5 (RHC)-- Amid Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed more than 34,600 Palestinians so far, including more than 16,000 children, resistance groups in Palestine and across the region continue their operations against the Tel Aviv regime and its Western backers.... More


Chicago, May 6 (RHC)-- U.S. police agents have arrested at least 25 pro-Palestinian protesters and cleared an encampment at the University of Virginia (UVA) as campuses across the United States brace for more turmoil during graduation ceremonies.... More


Doha, May 5 (RHC)-- The Al Jazeera Media Network has condemned the Israeli government’s move to close its operations in Israel as a “criminal act” and warned that the country’s suppression of the free press “stands in contravention of international and humanitarian law”.... More


Cairo, May 5 (RHC)-- Negotiations over a potential ceasefire in the Gaza war have broken down for now as Hamas reiterated its demand for an end to Israel’s assault on the Palestinian territory in exchange for the release of captives and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flatly ruled out such an outcome.... More


Tel Aviv, May 5 (RHC)-- Israel has closed the main crossing point for humanitarian aid to enter into Gaza after a Palestinian armed group fired rockets at a military base in southern Israel near the site killing three soldiers.  The Israeli military said on Sunday that it closed the Karem Abu Salem crossing, which Israel calls the Kerem Shalom crossing, to aid convoys after the attack.... More


Quito, May 5 (RHC)-- Political and cultural personalities, led by several former presidents of Latin America, winners of Nobel Prizes, among others, demanded this Saturday the immediate release of former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas, kidnapped a month ago from the Mexican Embassy in Quito.... More


Porto Alegre, May 5 (RHC)-- The death toll after heavy rains and strong floods that were recorded in the southern part of Brazil has risen to 76, according to the most recent balance of the Brazilian Civil Defense.... More


Cairo, May 5 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime has reportedly ruled out the possibility of ending its nearly seven-month-long genocidal war on Gaza despite ongoing ceasefire talks in Egypt as the occupying entity persists in invading the densely-populated southern city of Rafah.... More


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