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Unidentified armed men arriving on a motorcycle hurled a hand grenade on Friday around 5:30am on the house of a Muslim teacher in Ea’raavoor...

ISRAELI WARPLANES struck multiple sites across Gaza early Tuesday, killing three Islamic Jihad military leaders along with several others, with an initial total of 12 fatalities. Unnamed...

An important event for the working class of Leningrad and the entire world by Mikhail Polupanov This exhibition is dedicated to 130th anniversary of outstanding...

FAR RIGHT Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has reiterated his call for ‘encouraging’ Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip, saying the regime’s occupation of the...

OVER 200 local residents, hospital workers, pensioners, community workers, trade unionists and others opposed to the closure of the Maudsley Hospital Emergency Clinic staged...

The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has executed a U-turn over action on the Goldstone report on the Israeli war on Gaza last December 2008/January...

RIGHTS campaign groups Liberty, Runnymede, Stonewall and INQUEST have responded to Baroness Casey’s review of the Metropolitan Police Service which was produced last week. They...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) is warning that the future of the medical workforce is at risk. This comes as a new survey of medical...

TWENTY-SEVEN Unite members have won their tribunal claim over calculation of a redundancy payment at Rosyth Royal Dockyard in an Employment Tribunal decision. The members...

TAMILNET reports that ‘Normalcy has been disturbed in Mannaar city Tuesday from 8:10 am as the Sri Lanka Army mounted an artillery barrage simultaneously...

THE STRIKE at South African dairy giant Clover, that started on 22 November last year, has brought together unions, political parties, civic organisations and...

‘IT WILL NOT PASS!’ Over 5,000 young Greek workers on so-called ‘training’ schemes in the public sector, demonstrated on Thursday in Athens and in other...

UNISON has responded to the Institute for Fiscal Studies review into NHS funding, and warnings that in future, patients may have to pay for...

French police have fired tear gas to disperse climate demonstrators gathered in Paris to raise their voices against an annual general meeting of oil...

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas was among up to 30 world leaders on Saturday to attend a huge military parade in Moscow commemorating Russia’s 70th anniversary...

The crew of an Australian tanker docked in Hobart could face fines under the Howard government’s Industrial Relations laws for protesting against the operator’s...

THE two-million-strong Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will today launch an ‘intensive’ campaign for healthcare and trade union rights for all workers in the...

The number of people unemployed worldwide climbed to new heights in 2005, especially among the vast and growing legion of jobless youth, the International...

‘The current exodus is the largest population movement in the Middle East since Palestinians were displaced following the creation of the State of Israel...

‘This is a damning indictment of a social care system that is failing older people’, Age Concern’s Director General, Gordon Lishman, said on Wednesday. He...

RUSSIA’S victory is unavoidable. It is based on the unity of the Russian people, the heroism of special operation fighters and the operation of...

THE Sri Lankan government is attempting to portray the continually escalating incidents of civilian murders, disappearances and robberies as the result of individual enmities...

A US FEDERAL judge has rejected the limitations imposed by the Trump administration on a programme protecting hundreds of thousands of immigrants – often...

‘INDICATIONS from the first half of the year suggest 2015 is on track to see worldwide forced displacement exceeding 60 million for the first...

TEACHERS’ unions and the BMA led the condemnation of Tory Chancellor Osborne’s Budget on Wednesday, in which he announced the forced academisation of every...

Human rights organisations have urgently called on UN member states to take immediate action to ‘protect people deprived of their liberty’ across the occupied...

THE SPOKESMAN for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said last Wednesday that the President ‘is ready for a three-way meeting with Israel...

EAST London GPs, patients and supporters on Thursday staged a protest in Limehouse against cuts in funding that threaten to bankrupt around a dozen...

IN HASAKA earlier this week, the US occupation forces brought out a convoy loaded with stolen Syrian oil via the illegitimate al-Walid border crossing...

ON May 15th, Nakba Day, Palestinians commemorate their forced displacement and dispossession resulting from the establishment of the state of Israel. By marking the Nakba...

IRAN’S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif suddenly arrived in the French city of Biarritz on Friday, where the G7 meeting of the seven top...

IT’S a shame that the All in a Day’s Work book of interviews, recording lives and the struggles of west London workers from 1945-1995,...

The FBU and the Chief Fire Officer met this week and agreed a way forward to maintain fire cover within East Sussex. Recently, East Sussex...

REPRESENTATIVES of the tube union RMT on the London Transport pension fund have called for disinvestment from Semperian PPP after it emerged that one...

BY JOHN COULTER, IRISH POLITICAL JOURNALIST THE current Stormont impasse which has politically crippled the Northern power-sharing Executive for almost five months deepened this week...

Striking Grangemouth workers have issued a direct appeal to the people of Scotland. They took out a series of adverts in the Scottish media yesterday...

Palestinians on Sunday celebrated the 20th anniversary of the First Intifada, the popular uprising that rocked the Israeli regime to its foundations. The Intifada uprising...

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama was personally informed of phone tapping against German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which may have begun as early as 2002, German...

With the March 30 general strike fast approaching Irish Prime Minister Cowen has invited the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) to attend talks....

FAR-RIGHT extremists are reportedly furious with Donald Trump, calling him a ‘traitor’ and a ‘coward’, after the outgoing president pleaded for calm following his...

A Palestinian human rights group says Israeli military forces have killed more than one hundred Palestinians, and wounded hundreds more during raids and various...

Retired Major General Sarath Fonseka will be tried over five charges under Army Act at a court martial within the next few days, Military...

Occupy London protesters against the banks voted on Saturday to continue their camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral and expanded their protest to another camp...

‘THAT courage is required for a turnout, often indeed much loftier courage, much bolder, firmer determination than for an insurrection, is self-evident.’ ‘It is,...

Confirmation that manufacturing employment levels are at their lowest since 1841 drew an angry and frustrated response from the Transport and General Workers Union. Tony...