Home Features Page 103

Features

More in-depth featured articles from the newspaper

Doctors warn of worst-ever winter crisis!

0
THE President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Katherine Henderson, has urged hospital boards to ‘take immediate action’ to reduce crowding in...

CHILDREN’S HEALTH GIVEN LOW PRIORITY – as paediatric training recruitment worst...

0
THE low priority given to children and young people’s health threatens prosperity, argues an expert writing in The BMJ Today. Professor Russell Viner at University...

Syria rebuilds 52 Hospitals & health centres in Aleppo

0
N A VICTORY against the foreign backed terrorists, the Syrian government under President Assad have announced that they have managed to get 52 health...

Israel & US starves PLO of funds

0
AHMAD Majdalani, of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, has warned that Israel is attempting to destroy the Palestinian Authority through more financial...

Iran-Iraq investigation into the US ‘criminal and terrorist’ assassination of top...

0
A SENIOR Iranian judiciary official says Iran and Iraq have issued a joint statement on an investigation into the ‘criminal and terrorist’ assassination by...

Over 100 Iraqis Killed As The Masses Revolt Against Corrupt Government!

0
At least four protesters were killed and scores injured in clashes with security forces in Baghdad on Saturday as demonstrations seriously escalated. Three of the...

Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister al-Malki visits The Hague to open discussions...

0
MINISTER of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riad al-Malki, has discussed in The Hague with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda,...

PALESTINIAN YOUTH SHOT DEAD IN JENIN – during wide-scale Israeli forces...

0
THE Palestinian Arabic dailies highlighted on Sunday the news about the Palestinian youth who was shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes in Jenin...

US Brown University To Divest From Companies That Are ‘Complicit In...

0
IN A HISTORIC move, Brown University in Rhode Island has become the first US Ivy League institution to pass a student referendum supporting divestment...

Israel is shutting down the Palestinian institutions

0
‘ISRAEL is attempting to erase Palestinian presence in Jerusalem by shutting more Palestinian institutions,’ Hanan Ashrawi, an Executive Committee member of the Palestine Liberation...

RATP bus drivers strike against wage cutting!

0
BUS drivers in London have launched a fresh wave of strikes as their union Unite announced further strike action involving bus drivers employed by...

‘PM Johnson’s promises are nothing more than hot air’ says GMB

0
‘THE PRIME Minister’s promises are nothing more than hot air,’ the GMB trade union said in response to Boris Johnson’s speech to the virtual...

Schools & colleges are facing ‘national emergency!’

0
THE SCHOOL Cuts Coalition, including many education unions, on the eve of the Tory Spring Budget demanded the government address the ‘national emergency’ faced...

US Attempt to Extend Arms Embargo on Iran is ‘Illegal’ and...

0
IRAN’S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif defiantly addressed reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of the Iranian cabinet in Tehran on August 12,...

Bahrain ruler condemned for conference supporting Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century!’

0
THE main Shia opposition group in Bahrain has warned that the ruling Al Khalifah regime there is ‘contributing to the liquidation of the Palestinian...

Damascus reserves the right to take back Golan Heights!

0
SYRIA has censured Israel’s land theft and repressive measures against Syrians in the occupied side of the Golan Heights as a flagrant violation of...

CGT national strike over wages and retirement at 60

0
STRIKES and demonstrations took place across France on Thursday, with the CGT union federation declaring: ‘November 10 for wages and retirement at age 60.’ ‘For...

Judge denies US attempt to extradite Assange

0
Jubilant scenes greeted Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges at London’s Old...

Morrison government looks to bring back its union-busting legislation!

0
AUSTRALIA’S Industrial Relations Minister has accused the construction union CFMMEU of an ‘extraordinarily high standard of unlawful activity’ as the Morrison government moves to...

TURKISH INCURSION INTO SYRIA WILL LEAD TO THE REVIVAL OF DAESH...

0
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has warned that the Turkish military incursion into northeastern Syria could lead to the revival of the Daesh terrorist group...

Palestinians killed, wounded and gassed by Israeli forces

0
NEWS about the killing of a Palestinian youth by Israeli forces during clashes in the village of Urif, to the south of Nablus in...

Hundreds demonstrate support for asylum seekers outside Britain’s first ‘refugee camp’!

0
LAST Saturday over 250 pro-asylum seekers protested outside a former military barracks housing asylum seekers near Folkestone, the first refugee camp in Britian, which...

Wits University Students Strike Against Debt

0
STUDENTS at Wits University in South Africa are embarking on a strike, warning that returning students may be unable to continue with their studies...

US threatens Ukraine intervention if conflict escalates

0
AMERICAN and allied forces may directly intervene in the ongoing Ukraine conflict against Russia even without a threat to any member of the US-led...

Russia and China hold joint military drills

0
RUSSIA and China have wrapped up their five-day joint strategic military drills in Northwest China which involved over 10,000 troops and advanced weaponry. Top officials...

‘To reverse years of underinvestment sustained levels of investment are needed’...

0
RESPONDING to PM Johnson’s comments in the weekend’s Sunday Times newspaper, in which he pledged a £1.8bn cash injection into the NHS BMA council...

HOUSING OMBUDSMAN TO INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS OF MOULD & DAMP – but...

0
THE HOUSING Ombudsman has launched an investigation into damp and mould in buildings – which has shown just how widespread it now is throughout...

Shin Bet official warns of Israeli ‘domestic violence’

0
A SENIOR Israeli intelligence official has warned of ‘politically-instigated domestic violence’ similar to the January mayhem on the United States Capitol, after the opponents...

‘We must have redress for the mishandling on the pandemic!’

0
Statement by Kamran Abbasi Executive editor British Medical Journal ‘WHAT went wrong in the global governance of Covid-19? After two million deaths, we must have...

Merseyrail scabbing operation will ‘rip up the rule book’

0
THE RMT has issued a warning that the privateer Merseyrail’s planned Grand National scabbing operation will ‘rip up the safety rule book’. Rail union...

‘We will chase Daesh terrorists out of Iraq and elsewhere!’ says...

0
THE IRAQI air force has launched deadly strikes against terrorists’ positions in Syria as both neighbouring countries step up efforts to get rid of...

‘Any attempt to use force against Manus Island refugees could lead...

0
RESPONDING to a notice issued by Papua New Guinea (PNG) authorities on Thursday morning at the Lombrum refugee detention centre on Manus Island stating...

‘Don’t use Marikana victims for political gain’ says AMCU

0
The victims of the Marikana massacre should not be used to mend relations between the ANC and the Economic freedom Fighters (EFF), Association...

Deadly attacks on Colombian teachers & trade unions are condemned by...

0
Education International supports its affiliate, the Federación Colombiana de Educadores, in denouncing and firmly condemning assassinations and threats targeting Colombian educators, trade unionists, and...

Ikea In France Used Police And Private Detectives To Spy On...

0
N 2012, French union confederation Force Ouvrière decided to take legal action to shed light on the discovery of a ‘surveillance and espionage service’...

‘It won’t take a year’ to win Syrian war says Assad

0
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad says Damascus has nearly won the seven-year war, despite continued US ‘interference’. In an interview given to RT, President al-Assad...

‘We’ve learned that there is no Palestinian victim that the Israeli...

0
EXECUTIVE Director of Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, Hagai El-Ad, has slammed the Israeli government’s record saying: ‘We’ve learned that there is no Palestinian...

NHS cervical screening services threatened with privatisation!

0
FEARS are being expressed about the threat of privatisation of NHS cervical screening services used by thousands of women throughout the country every year,...

Russia Repeats Its Warnings Against Nato Expansion

0
RUSSIA has repeated its warning against further expansion of the NATO military alliance, saying the alliance remains ‘a tool of confrontation’. Addressing a press conference...

Russia concerned about the USA’s militarisation of Space!

0
RUSSIA has stressed its concern about the growing ‘militarisation of space’ by the United States and its allies, and urged that such hostile measures...

NHS waiting times ‘deeply concerning’ – says BMA

0
‘THESE latest sets of NHS performance statistics are deeply concerning, and paint a very bleak picture for the future delivery of patient care if...

‘Deal of the Century’ LEAKED! – DEAL HAS BEEN STRONGLY REJECTED...

0
THE main points of the United States’ anticipated Middle East peace plan, the so-called ‘Deal of the Century’, were revealed by a Hebrew-language news...

Pay slashed for Irish meat workers snowed in

0
THE MAIN beef supplier for McDonald’s restaurants in Europe has ruthlessly slashed the pay of workers who could not get to work during the...

Abbas announces general elections

0
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that the date for holding general elections had seen ‘significant delays – despite the multiple attempts to...

Numsa Threatening National Strike Action Against Eskom Abuse Of Power

0
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa’s (NUMSA) is threatening a national strike against electricity power company Eskom. A NUMSA statement said: ‘The National...