Washington, December 3 (RHC)-- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has promised “there will be hell to pay” if captives held in Gaza during Israel’s ongoing war are not released by the time he takes office on January 20th.... More


Paris, December 3 (RHC)-- Israel is continuing to strike Lebanon despite last week’s ceasefire.  France has accused Israel of violating the ceasefire at least 52 times.  Meanwhile, residents of southern Lebanon continue to return home to assess damage caused by Israel’s invasion, defying threats by Israeli forces not to travel south. ... More


Gaza City, December 3 (RHC)-- The government media office in the Gaza Strip says another Palestinian journalist has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the besieged coastal sliver, taking the death toll to 192 since the beginning of the bloody Israeli war in October last year.... More


Cairo, December 3 (RHC)-- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Gaza now has “the highest number of children amputees per capita anywhere in the world.”... More


Seoul, December 2 (RHC)-- A global United Nations summit on plastics ended in Busan, South Korea, early this morning without a much-anticipated treaty after fossil fuel companies and oil-rich countries refused to agree to limit plastic production. ... More


N’Djamena, December 2 (RHC)-- The African nation of Chad has ended its long-standing military partnership with France.  The move is the latest blow to France’s colonial legacy in the Sahel region and follows the expulsion of French troops from Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.... More


Washington, December 2 (RHC)-- The New Yorker magazine’s Jane Mayer has revealed that Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, was forced out of leadership roles at two veterans organizations for misusing funds, sexually harassing women and being repeatedly drunk on the job. ... More


Washington, December 2 (RHC)-- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has announced plans to nominate Kash Patel to replace current FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom Patel has called a “stooge of the deep state.” ... More


Washington, December 2 (RHC)-- Donald Trump has picked the real estate developer Charles Kushner to be U.S. ambassador to France.  Kushner is the father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka. ... More


Tel Aviv, December 2 (RHC)-- Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has accused Israel of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip, echoing the allegations by the International Criminal Court against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant.... More


The Hague, December 2 (RHC)-- The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has warned that attacks on the tribunal, which have come largely from Washington, “jeopardise its very existence.”... More


Caracas, December 2 (RHC)-- The Member States of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) issued a statement this Sunday in which they express their solidarity with the Syrian people and Government.... More


Beirut, December 2 (RHC)-- The Israeli military continues to strike Lebanon despite a ceasefire agreement with the Hezbollah resistance movement, striking residential buildings in the south.... More


Tel Aviv, December 2 (RHC)-- In the wake of former President Donald Trump's re-election, Israeli settler councils have been drafting a plan to accelerate the path towards annexation of the occupied West Bank and other Palestinian territories, a Hebrew media report says.... More


Brasilia, December 2 (RHC)-- The Brazilian Army has opened an internal investigation into the 2022 coup plot against President Lula da Silva.  ... More


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