The Hague, April 19 (RHC)-- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has announced that hearings are scheduled for April 30th and May 1st, where the lawsuit of Mexico against Ecuador, for the assault on its embassy in Quito, will be tried.... More


New York, April 18 (RHC)-- New York City police have forcibly removed a protest encampment at Columbia University and arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including Isra Hirsi, the daughter of prominent U.S. congresswoman Ilhan Omar.... More


Sunnyvale, April 18 (RHC)-- Google has fired 28 employees who protested its $1.2 billion contract with Israel. Project Nimbus provides computing services to the Israeli military.  This comes after peaceful sit-ins this week by Google workers at their New York City and Sunnyvale, California, offices, which resulted in nine arrests. ... More


United Nations, April 18 (RHC)-- The United States has predictably cast its veto against a bid by the Palestinian Authority (PA) for Palestine to be recognized as a full member of the United Nations.... More


Quagadougou, April 18 (RHC)-- Burkina Faso has ordered three French diplomats to leave the coup-hit country within two days over “subversive activities”, a year after the junta ruling the African nation cut off ties with France, the landlocked country’s former colonial ruler.... More


Gaza City, April 18 (RHC)-- The medical crisis in Gaza's hospitals, or what remains of them, is catastrophic. Hospitals can barely treat patients, and staff don't have the equipment, medicine or even beds necessary to take care of Palestinians in the enclave, who are struggling to survive under relentless Israeli bombing.... More


New York, April 18 (RHC)-- Twenty-nine authors and translators have withdrawn from consideration for PEN America’s prestigious literary prizes to protest the organization’s leadership and silencing of Palestinian voices. ... More


Caracas, April 18 (RHC)-- Representatives of countries that make up the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), social movements and intellectuals attended this Thursday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, at the beginning of the Meeting for a World Social Alternative.... More


Geneva, April 18 (RHC)-- The United Nations refugee agency UNRWA has accused Israeli security forces of torturing imprisoned UN workers in an effort to extract false confessions about the agency’s ties to Hamas. ... More


Gaza City, April 18 (RHC)-- A 13-year-old Palestinian boy who survived an Israeli airstrike on his home in November has now died after being hit in the head with a package that was being dropped from the sky. ... More


Havana, April 18 (RHC)-- The Government of Cuba has rejected the implementation by the Administration of Joe Biden of unilateral coercive measures against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.... More


Rafah, April 18 (RHC)-- According to reports from the Gaza Strip, much of Rafah, like the rest of Gaza, is now rubble.... More


Beirut, April 18 (RHC)-- Israeli fighter jets attacked sites in the area of southern Lebanon’s Khiam town overnight and killed two Hezbollah fighters in the Kfar Kila area, the military said.... More


Havana, April 18 (JIT) - Cuba's Leuris Pupo finished second in the first qualifying round of the 25-meter rapid fire pistol during the Rio de Janeiro 2024 Olympic Rifle and Pistol Final Qualifying Championship in Brazil.... More


Havana, April 18 (JIT) - Cuban Diorges Escobar said goodbye to the Olympic dream after an imprecise performance that left him out of the final of the free hand exercises at the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Doha 2024, in Qatar.... More


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