New York, April 27 (RHC)-- Police forces have arrested more than 500 protesters during a crackdown against pro-Palestinian protesters on university campuses across the United States.  Anti-riot police used chemical irritants and tasers against protesters, who set up camps in defiance of police warnings from Massachusetts to California, to protest against Israel's savage war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.... More

Brasilia, April 27 (RHC)-- Thousands of Indigenous people marched in Brazil’s capital, calling on the government to officially recognize lands they have lived on for centuries and to protect territories from criminal activities such as illegal mining.... More

Atlanta, April 26 (RHC)-- In the U.S., at Emory in Atlanta, a brutal police crackdown led to at least 28 arrests.  Among those arrested was economics professor Caroline Fohlin, who was knocked to the ground by a police officer, while another held her down and bound her hands with zip ties.... More

Paris, April 26 (RHC)-- Students blocked access to Paris’s prestigious Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) university over Israel’s war on Gaza, demanding the institution condemn Israel’s actions in a protest that echoed similar demonstrations on university and college campuses across the United States.... More

New York, April 26 (RHC)-- U.S. university students at Columbia, Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have vowed to press on with their pro-Palestinian activism at the universities as long as the United States sustained its all-out support for the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.... More

United Nations, April 26 (RHC)-- UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese has called on the international community to immediately impose oil sanctions and an arms embargo against Israel.  "At this point, Israel has reneged on its international obligations to a degree that warrants an imperative implementation of immediate and unconditional sanctions which should entail first and foremost an arms and oil embargo," Francesca Albanese said during a press conference on Thursday.... More

Austin, April 25 (RHC)-- At the University of Texas in Austin, school officials called in local and state police, who violently crushed a student attempt to set up an encampment on the university’s South Mall. At least 50 people were arrested, including at least one journalist. ... More

Washington, April 25 (RHC)-- U.S. President Joe Biden signed the $95 billion military spending package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan Wednesday after months of congressional wrangling.  Biden said weapons would flow into Ukraine “within hours” and declared: “It’s a good day for world peace.” ... More