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Rival West African alliance to launch new passports

Mali’s transitional president has announced that his country will, along with Burkina Faso and Niger, launch new biometric passports under the new Alliance of...

Indigenous resistance: America’s ‘Columbus Day’ and genocide in Gaza

by Rachel Hamdoun - PressTV.ir Every year, on the second Monday of October, people in the United States commemorate what is known as the “Columbus...

Western nations were desperate for Korean babies, now many adoptees believe they were stolen.

Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said,...

Over 5,000 civilians killed since Myanmar military coup

The UN human rights office, OHCHR, recently issued its latest report on Myanmar, detailing a range of serious violations that continue to underscore the...

1,200 Palestinians face systematic torture in Israeli jails: Report

The Palestinian detainees commission says hundreds of people abducted by Israel from the besieged Gaza Strip and held at the regime’s Negev Desert Prison...

Hezbollah says Israel dropping leaflets with ‘very dangerous’ barcodes in Lebanon

As the death toll from the Israeli bombing of Lebanon topped 550 on Sept. 24, Hezbollah warned that Israel is dropping leaflets with barcodes allegedly designed...

Offer of two permanent seats to Africa on UN Security Council is more symbol than substance

As the global community prepares for the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly scheduled for Sept. 22-23 in New York, Linda Thomas-Greenfield,...

Venezuela announces dismantling of CIA-backed coup plot and arrest of active-duty Navy Seal

In a press conference given on Sept. 14, Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello announced that authorities had dismantled an operation reportedly backed by the...

Israel recruiting African refugees in Gaza war in exchange for residency status: Report

The Israeli regime is recruiting African asylum seekers to kill Palestinians in the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in exchange for permanent...

Scientific institutions of Cuba, China strengthen bilateral collaboration

The Center for Immunoassay and the Beijing Institute of Technology signed in Havana a memorandum of understanding for the creation of a joint laboratory...