Ramallah, May 20 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have conducted several raids in the occupied West Bank, storming multiple Palestinian homes while making arrests. On Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers stormed several homes in the town of Anabta, in east of Tulkarm, abducting three young men, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.... More
Boston, May 20 (RHC)-- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has said it is terminating $60 million in federal grants to Harvard University, further escalating an ongoing feud between the Ivy Leave institute and President Donald Trump’s administration over alleged anti-Semitism, presidential control and the limits of academic freedom.... More
New York, May 20 (RHC)-- A prominent human rights lawyer and former director of the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says the deployment of armed U.S. mercenaries to assist the Israeli regime in the occupation of the Gaza Strip is itself unlawful under international law.... More
Khan Yunis, May 20 (RHC)-- Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses have revealed that an operation conducted by Israeli forces disguised as women has failed to retrieve captives held in Gaza, before fleeing under Israeli aerial cover.... More
San Salvador, May 20 (RHC)-- A prominent human rights lawyer known for defending immigrants deported amid United States President Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigration policies has been arrested in El Salvador.... More
Brasilia, May 20 (RHC)-- The trial of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has begun, with charges that he plotted a coup d’etat and led a “criminal organization” to overturn the result of the October 2022 election, in which he was narrowly defeated by current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.... More
Deir el-Balah, May 20 (RHC)-- Powerful explosions were heard in Khan Younis on Monday morning as Israeli warplanes filled the skies, with drones and assault helicopters raining down bombs on civilian neighborhoods.... More
Amsterdam, May 20 (RHC)-- A statement signed by foreign ministries of nearly two dozen countries shows a shift in Europe's stance on Gaza. The statement, which demands that Israel allow “full resumption” of aid into Gaza, was signed by 22 nations, including European ministers, but also Canada, Australia and some Baltic states.... More
Washington, May 20 (RHC)-- The U.S. Supreme Court has enabled the administration of President Donald Trump to revoke the protected immigration status of about 350,000 Venezuelans. The top court’s justices issued a brief order on Monday, granting the administration’s request for lifting the suspension that had been placed by a lower court in March.... More
Mahmoud Khalil’s wife and baby accept People’s Diploma, honoring students who speak up for Palestine
New York, May 20 (RHC)-- In New York City, the wife and newborn child of abducted Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil accepted a diploma on Khalil’s behalf during an alternative graduation ceremony held by the People’s University for Palestine. ... More
Los Angeles, May 20 (RHC)-- A hunger-striking student at UCLA was hospitalized Sunday on the ninth day of her action. Maya Abdullah is one of a growing group of students at universities across the country who’ve launched hunger strikes amid the Israeli blockade on Gaza to demand their schools divest from Israel and protect free speech on campus. Hunger strikes are ongoing at Yale, Stanford and at California State University schools.... More
Washington, May 19 (RHC)-- In the U.S., the House Budget Committee passed a bill to give tax breaks to the rich while slashing funding for Medicaid, food stamps and subsidies for clean energy. ... More
Havana, May 19 (JIT) - Cuban Jhoen Lefont will try to set another Guinness record for ball mastery next Saturday at the Main Pool of the National Hotel of Cuba.... More
Havana, May 19 (JIT) - The Orientales team was crowned champion of the Superior Women's Basketball League after beating its similar team Occidentales in two games.... More
Havana, May 19 (JIT) - Douglas Parrado, from the Cuba-Pista team, won the II Castrol Cycling Cup, which concluded this Sunday in the attractive La Piragua circuit of the capital.... More
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