
Damascus, December 8 (RHC)-- Syria's state television says Israeli military aircraft have targeted an airbase near the capital Damascus. ... More

Jakarta, December 8 (RHC)-- Officials in Indonesia have appealed for urgent medical help after a massive earthquake that devastated the western part of the country, killed nearly 100 people, and wounded hundreds more. ... More

Washington, December 8 (RHC)-- The U.S. Defense Department has buried a study that revealed a $125 billion waste of administrative funds, fearing it would prompt Congress to cut the military budget, according to a new report.... More

Washington, December 8 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama has given his final planned address on national security, in which he sought to defend his legacy in the war on terrorism. ... More

Washington, December 8 (RHC)-- The World Council of Churches is condemning Israel for interrogating and deporting its associate general secretary, Isabel Apawo Phiri, upon her arrival at Tel Aviv airport.... More

New York, December 8 (RHC)-- In the United States, a former Black Panther is free after 37 years in prison. ... More

Rome, December 7 (RHC)-- More than 1,000 migrants were rescued from overcrowded boats and 16 bodies were recovered in the past two days, Italy's coastguard said... More

Brasilia, December 7 (RHC)-- Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva has repeatedly suggested he intends to run for president in 2018.... More
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Ramallah, December 7 (RHC)-- Palestinian leaders and the international community are expressing outrage at the Israeli parliament’s vote this week to retroactively legalize thousands of Jewish-only settlements on Palestinian land in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. ... More

Rabat, December 7 (RHC)-- In news from the Morocco-occupied Western Sahara, 22 year-old media activist Walid Fatal has been sentenced by a Moroccan court to 14 months in prison for filming a peaceful protest in the city of Smara last November 25 on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.... More

Lima, December 7 (RHC)-- Peru’s jailed former dictator Alberto Fujimori said that authorities had moved him from his prison cell to a health facility in the capital city Lima to undergo medical testing related to a brain condition and mobility problems. ... More

Bismarck, December 7 (RHC)-- On the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, Wes Clark Jr. led military veterans in a ceremony to ask forgiveness from Native Americans for the crimes of the U.S. military.... More

Ramallah, December 6 (RHC)-- Emergency workers in Gaza have recovered the bodies of four Palestinians who had gone missing in a tunnel running under the coastal enclave's border into Egyp... More

Stockholm, December 6 (RHC)-- A group of lawmakers and cultural personalities from Sweden have asked outgoing U.S. president Barack Obama to release Puerto Rican liberation fighter Oscar López Rivera... More

Washington, December 6 (RHC)-- The Washington Post is reporting Donald Trump’s recent protocol-breaking telephone conversation with Taiwan’s leader was an intentionally provocative move that had been planned weeks in advance. ... More
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