Brasilia, March 18 (RHC)-- A heatwave stifling Brazil has set new records with Rio de Janeiro’s heat index hitting 62.3 degrees Celsius (144.1 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest in a decade, weather authorities say.... More
Brussels, March 18 (RHC)-- Thousands of people in the Gaza Strip are beset by “a state of famine” as Israel is using starvation as “a weapon of war” by deliberately blocking humanitarian aid into the besieged Palestinian territory, says the foreign policy chief of the European Union.... More
Tel Aviv, March 18 (RHC)-- A former Israeli military commander has confessed that the occupying regime has lost its months-long war against the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in the besieged Gaza Strip.... More
Bogota, March 18 (RHC)-- The Colombian government has suspended in three departments the bilateral ceasefire with the Central General Staff (CGS), the main dissidence of the FARC, after that group attacked an indigenous community in the southwest of the country on Saturday.... More
United Nations, March 18 (RHC)-- The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has warned that one-third of children under two years old in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished as famine looms amid Israel’s complete blockade of the coastal territory.... More
United Nations, March 18 (RHC)-- Israel has killed more than 13,000 children in Gaza since October 7th while others are suffering from severe malnutrition and do not “even have the energy to cry,” says the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).... More
Tel Aviv, March 18 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated that Israel would push on with its ground offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah despite growing international pressure.... More
Sanaa, March 17 (RHC)-- The Yemeni armed forces have carried out military training exercises that simulate confronting a potential attack by the U.S. and British troops against the country. Yemen's Saba news agency reported that Units of the Special Forces of the Central Military District carried out one of their largest combat training and military maneuvers, entitled “The Promised Day Maneuver,” on the outskirts of the capital, Sana'a.... More
Cairo, March 17 (RHC)-- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has reiterated that his country is opposed to any plan to forcefully displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Sisi said in a Sunday meeting with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen that Egypt would not allow forced displacement of the Palestinians outside their land after reports suggested that the Israeli regime is still seeking to expel people from Gaza amid its brutal war on the territory.... More
Geneva, March 17 (RHC)-- The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says the Israeli military has systematically targeted dozens of information technology experts in the Gaza Strip, as part of its genocidal war against the besieged territory.... More
Vandalia, March 17 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that if he does not "get elected in the November presidential elections, "it’s going to be a bloodbath" in the United States.... More
Beirut, March 17 (RHC)-- Fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement have separately targeted espionage equipment and a gathering of Israeli soldiers stationed at a military outpost close to the border with southern Lebanon in response to the regime’s ongoing genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.... More
New York, March 17 (RHC)-- One evening in 2004, when John Francis Mulligan, a U.S.-born Irish citizen, was in the West Bank, a stranger asked him to walk her to a funeral. It was after curfew in Nablus, and Palestinians weren’t allowed out on the streets. A young man had been killed earlier that day, and because of religious beliefs, his family needed to bury him within 24 hours, Mulligan recalls. But if they went outside, the Israel armed forces “would open fire on them for violating curfew”.... More
Tehran, March 17 (RHC)-- Iran has censured the United States’ use of human rights as an instrument, saying Washington is the main defendant of violations of rights in the world and in Israel’s months-long crimes against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.... More
Tegucigalpa, March 17 (RHC)-- The president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, whose country holds the pro tempore presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), asked the United Nations (UN) on Saturday for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, while denouncing the complicity of the US with the genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinian people.... More
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