New York, April 17 (RHC)-- At least nine workers at Google were arrested Tuesday after staging sit-ins at Google’s office in New York City and the office of Google Cloud’s CEO in Sunnyvale, California, to protest Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to the Israeli government and military.... More
New York, April 17 (RHC)-- Students at Columbia University and Barnard College in New York City have set up dozens of tents on campus to create what they are calling a Gaza Solidarity Encampment. ... More
London, April 17 (RHC)-- Tension remains high in the Middle East as world leaders urge Israel to show restraint following Iran’s recent drone and missile attack. ... More
Geneva, April 17 (RHC)-- The United Nations has accused Israel of continuing to unlawfully restrict aid into Gaza despite acknowledgments by the United States that parts of Gaza are already experiencing famine. ... More
La Paz, April 17 (RHC)-- The governments of Bolivia and Chile denied and rejected on Tuesday the statements made by the Minister of Security of Argentina, Patricia Bullrich, about the alleged existence of "combatant forces of the armed branches of Iran" in Bolivian territory and the presence of Hezbollah in northern Chile.... More
Washington, April 17 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Virginia, three Iraqi survivors of torture by U.S. guards at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq headed are in court for the much-anticipated trial against U.S. military contractor CACI, which was hired to provide interrogation services at Abu Ghraib. ... More
Rafah, April 17 (RHC)-- Doctors have uncovered a new mass grave at the decimated Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. ... More
Rafah, April 17 (RHC)-- An Israeli airstrike destroyed a mosque and homes in Gaza’s northern Jabaliya refugee camp. Many were reported injured, including children. Another attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp killed at least three people.... More
Ramallah, April 16 (RHC)-- A human rights group says Israeli forces have kidnapped 3,000 Palestinians from Gaza since the start of the aggression on the besieged strip last October, including women and children.... More
Caracas, April 16 (RHC)-- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, denounced on Monday that the U.S. government has not complied with the agreements signed, particularly with the lifting of the illegal coercive measures imposed against the country.... More
New Haven, April 16 (RHC)-- More than a dozen students at Yale University have threatened to go on hunger strike over the seat of learning’s connection to American arms manufacturers that contribute to the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.... More
Chicago, April 16 (RHC)-- Protesters have blocked major roads in the states of Illinois, California, New York and the Pacific Northwest, temporarily preventing travel into some of the United States’s most heavily used airports, onto the Golden Gate and Brooklyn bridges and along a busy West Coast highway.... More
Mexico City, April 15 (RHC)-- Former foreign minister of Ecuador, Ricardo Patiño, warned about the importance of taking care of the lives of innocent people like the former Vice President Jorge Glas, and called the attention of the governments of the world, particularly those of Latin America, to talk to their Ecuadorian counterparts about the case.... More
United Nations, April 15 (RHC)-- April 15th marks one year since the devastating war in Sudan erupted. An estimated 15,000 people have been killed, and another 8.6 million forcibly displaced, in what the U.N. calls “one of the worst displacement and humanitarian crises in the world — and one of the most ignored.” ... More
Berlin, April 15 (RHC)-- Police in Germany raided and shut down a pro-Palestinian conference in Berlin on Friday. The Palestine Congress was scheduled to be held for three days, but the event was shut down as the first panelist spoke.... More
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