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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi on Thursday that he is convinced that Syrian...

ALMOST 200 Nepalese men died last year working on construction projects in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) says...

TAMILNET reports that the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York based media rights group, has slammed the Sri Lankan Government for its...

ON Friday August 31, the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Birri, delivered a speech outlining his proposals for the current political crisis...

GREEK bank workers at the ATE Bank (Agrarian bank) decided last Monday in a mass meeting to continue their national strike against the sell...

A NATIONAL strike across South Africa against the rising costs of living, load shedding, and other economic challenges will take place on 24 August,...

IN A HIGHLY significant development, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was forced to abandon his May Day speech and flee for his life in...

Covid-19 has ‘thrived’ among black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) communities because of structural race discrimination, a new Labour Party report from Baroness Doreen...

THE legal charity Inquest is welcoming a ‘highly critical jury verdict’ on the death in custody of Paul Davies. The jury at the inquest into...

‘WE are ready to strike, don’t come back with some half-baked deal,’ junior doctors urged their leaders at a 100-strong BMA London Regional Committee...

‘A PALESTINIAN state without Jerusalem as its capital will not be accepted,’ Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokes-man for President Mahmoud Abbas, said on Tuesday. He...

NEARLY a fifth (18%) of workers have been told they’re not allowed to discuss their pay with co-workers, according to new TUC/GQR polling published...

THE South African NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) has said it will march on the imminent meeting of the ANC National Executive Council, as...

CARDIFF University staff have overwhelmingly backed industrial action in a fight against huge job cuts, the University and College Union (UCU) announced on Tuesday...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad has affirmed that the situation in Syria has improved dramatically because the terrorist groups, mainly ISIS, al-Nusra and like-minded groups who...

Saddam’s deputy,      Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, issued a statement on 1 January, mourning his ‘brother’ and calling for unity. ‘The criminal evil hands of the...

THE Israeli navy on Tuesday arrested six Palestinian fishermen while sailing off the coast of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to...

Iran’s top military commander asserts that the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces confronted the Israeli and American aggression with the full range of their capabilities...

ON JULY 9th, 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an Advisory Opinion on the wall Israel had started building in the occupied...

On ‘Black Friday’ this week, a group of unions and grassroots organisations, known as the Make Amazon Pay Coalition, will stage coordinated protests and...

WHEN CARILLION collapsed last month it left the future of the new Royal Liverpool Hospital in limbo. The half-built £335 million hospital which has already...

THE report of the inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney was published on Friday. Azelle Rodney was 24 when he died on 30 April...

UNIONISATION drives are sweeping Starbucks and Amazon workplaces across the United States from East to West, with strikes gaining powerful huge support from the...

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...

HUGE numbers of anti-water-charges demonstrators marched through Dublin city last Saturday, ending with a 100,000-strong rally at the Spire on O’Connell Street, with...

The Iraqi refugee crisis is reaching breaking point, Amnesty International said in its report ‘Millions in Flight’, published yesterday. Help from the international...

OVER 35,000 university and school students, youth and workers joined the 41st Anniversary March of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising in Athens on Monday. They were...

ARAB and Islamic countries in the United Nations are drafting a resolution to ask the UN Human Rights Council to adopt the conclusions of...

ONE media worker has been sentenced and jailed and another detained amid rising attacks against the press by the military junta in Myanmar. A freelance...

Hezbollah marked the tenth anniversary of the Resistance and Liberation Day on Tuesday at the Sayyed Al-Shouhada compound in Beirut’s southern suburb. Official, religious, military,...

PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump may be touting his deal with heating and ventilation systems manufacurer Carrier as a triumph for working-class Americans, but Vermont Sen....

RUSSIA’S nuclear doctrine needed to be revised to adapt to new realities, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. He explained that it was necessary...

WITH increasing numbers of babies and children now dying of starvation in Gaza, Dennis Francis, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, has...

THE 400 STRIKING Birmingham bin workers held a ‘mega-picket’ on Friday 25th July, with trade unionists travelling from all over the country and arriving...

KHALID MISHAAL, head of Hamas’s Political Bureau, has called for an all-inclusive dialogue among all political Palestinian forces, particularly Fatah and Hamas, which would...

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

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists and the Association for the Prevention of Torture have issued a joint statement calling...

BY RAMZY BAROUD – Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author, and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a...

JULIAN Assange will most likely take his own life if he is convicted, an online meeting for NUJ members has heard. Jen Robinson, lawyer to...

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...

‘THROUGH our Universal Credit Fact Versus Fiction campaign, PCS is exposing the massive problems with a system that we say needs to be scrapped...

‘EALING Hospital is the beating heart of the whole community, leave our hospital alone!’ local resident Prempal Dhaliwal said on the mass picket of...

VULNERABLE children are being let down says Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, criticising the use of restraint and seclusion. On Monday she published...

Edinburgh International Film Festival is the world’s longest running film festival, showcasing the latest and best of world cinema, with something for everyone. This...

The News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance Conference held in east London on Sunday May 13th unanimously voted to carry into action the following Main...