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Care homes are increasingly struggling to provide high quality care for residents with complex medical conditions, amid a backdrop of a severe lack of...

A FORMER Saint-Gobain Crystals and Detectors worker in Bangalore, India, Jayaraj Mathangi, was fired for absenteeism after developing severe health problems due to hazards...

THE US is experiencing a surge of strikes – 10,000 John Deere workers went on strike in October, and so did 1,400 Kellogg workers,...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said that it is ‘deeply saddened at the loss of life and immense suffering caused’ by Monday’s massive fire...

HUNDREDS of ISIS terrorists, aided by Al Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra, have entered Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said,...

The TUC Congress next month is meeting at an historic juncture of worldwide economic and political crisis. Millions of workers are having their wages frozen...

AT LEAST eight media workers were beaten and violently assaulted by security forces and police during live coverage of Saturdays anti-government protest outside Prime...

THE ISRAELI military killed at least 710 Palestinian babies before they made it to their first birthday, the equivalent of two infants under one-year-old...

‘UCU (University and College Union) will be calling sustained strike action aimed at massively disrupting lectures, classes and the administrative life of your institution...

US Secretary of State, John Kerry says that there are indications Egypt generals intend to restore democracy. He says that the USA is committed...

GAZA prime minister Ismail Haniya is ‘satisfied’ with the outcome of talks with Egypt’s President Mursi, the Hamas-backed Palestinian newspaper Filastin website reported on...

HEALTH workers across Europe are fighting to defend their jobs, conditions of employment and the services they provide to millions of workers and their...

MOSCOW – Vladimir Putin took part in the final plenary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club’s XI session on ‘The World Order: New...

TAMILNET has reported the call from South Africa expressing deep concern over the escalating violence in Sri Lanka, and calling for renewed negotiations...

ISRAEL’S decision to block a Libyan aid ship from docking in Gaza proves its siege is ‘an act of terror’, the Gaza-based Prime Minister...

Six union leaders employed by the One World Apparel garment factory in Haiti have been fired. The leaders of the Textile and Garment...

IN THE British Medical Journal this week, two doctors criticise Australia for passing legislation that may be used to silence doctors working with asylum...

THE DEFENCE chiefs of Iran, Russia and Syria have called for closer trilateral co-operation in the battle against terrorism, emphasising the need to keep...

Over 2,000 Tamils demonstrated outside the Commonwealth Conference in central London on Tuesday against the attendance of Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapakse. Their banners carried...

GAMBIAN President Yahya Jammeh’s conditional moratorium on executions of death row prisoners leaves at least 38 people at great risk of execution, Amnesty International...

YEMEN is facing ‘the worst epidemic of cholera since records began’, a report from inside Yemen has warned. The Armed Conflict Location and Event...

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, launched its campaign for the Palestinian elections on Tuesday, in defiance of Israeli attempts to bar the movement from...

‘THE cowardly US aggression against positions of the Syrian Arab army in the surroundings of Deir Ezzor Airport is evidence of the support provided...

THE Irish trade union SIPTU has met with the provisional liquidators appointed to Mount Carmel Hospital in Dublin. SIPTU Organiser, Kevin Figgis, said:...

YEMENI police killed at least one person and injured scores of other protesters when they opened fire in the city of Taiz on Sunday,...

Only half of GP practice buildings in England are fit for purpose, with surgeries too small to meet the demands of growing populations, a...

IRANIAN Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Syrian counterpart, Faisal Mekdad, have reiterated their countries’ absolute determination to resolve the problems in the region,...

IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says that outgoing US president, Donald Trump, registered state terrorism on America’s official record by openly accepting responsibility for the assassination...

First speaker at the rally in Parliament Square was Louise Regan, the chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who said: ‘Since October, Palestinians have...

Donald Rumsfeld, who was forced to resign as US defence secretary last Wednesday, may face criminal charges in Germany for alleged abuses in Guantanamo...

TAMILNET reports that voting at Thursday’s Sri Lanka’s Parliamentary Elections ended on schedule at 4.00 pm local time as independent monitors placed the voter...

‘FREE Gaza now! Free Gaza now!’ was the cry of 5,000 mainly young people who swelled a mass picket opposite Downing Street on Saturday,...

HUNDREDS of thousands members of IG Metall union, Germany’s largest trade union, are engaged in short-term ‘warning strikes’ against 80 companies, for the right...

‘WHAT is needed now is to grow the economy. That is the only sober and sustainable path to pay down our worrying debt trajectory....

THE PALESTINIAN resistance movement of Hamas has denounced the Israeli shooting of a Palestinian, Raed al-Salihi, who died later in detention as a ‘new...

Trade union leaders have been shocked by the latest jobless figures which saw a leap in part-time working and female and youth unemployment. Commenting on...

PALESTINIAN envoys are battling for UN Security Council votes to back their effort to win full UN membership, while the United States is...

‘THE clear message we are trying to get across is that this is a fight for the future of the NHS,’ BMA junior doctors...

HEALTH workers demonstrated in cities across France on Tuesday to demand higher pay and more staff for services stretched to breaking point, just days...

‘DON’T let this get around, but professionals are forming unions like crazy these days. And, just yesterday, a union unveiled itself at Google …...

THE Pentagon is building a missile defence radar station at a covert location in Qatar, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The site will...

FEARFUL Britain was going to run out of food and grind to a halt due to a docks strike at the height of the...

THE Government of Japan has signed a contribution agreement worth $22.4 million with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine refugees...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Bath and the University of Bristol are joining the latest wave of...

TAMIL NET reports that Ananthi Sasitharan, wife of Elilan, former Trincomalee political head of the LTTE, has told BBC Tamil service that she and...