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Exiled journalists have condemned state media abuse in the Sri Lanka presidential election campaign, reports TamilNet.| Journalists for Democracy (JDS), a Germany-based media advocacy group...

HANAN Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), warned on Wednesday against attempts to impose an economic or humanitarian...

HANDS Off Iraqi Oil – the campaign launched to stop the theft of Iraq’s oil reserves – says that mainstream media coverage ‘has uncritically...

THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has called a national demonstration on February 21 at 2pm in Dublin to mobilise workers against...

TEN countries’ foreign ministers have strongly condemned Israel’s attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, a peaceful civilian humanitarian mission attempting to break the Israeli...

US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington wanted to help the Syrian opposition unite against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime but...

IN EGYPT, six doctors and two pharmacists have been arrested, and medics transferred to quarantine hospitals for speaking out, said Amnesty International on Thursday. A...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh announced on Monday that his government is preparing for new national and presidential elections in Palestine. ‘The Cabinet looks forward...

‘A LONG-AWAITED trial began on Monday in Paris, accusing telecom giant Orange and seven former or current managers of moral harassment and related charges,’...

WARS in Syria and Afghanistan are driving refugees through Turkey as they make their way to Greece. Many land on the Greek island of Lesbos,...

‘FROM the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!’, chanted over 50 protesters at an emergency demonstration outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development...

MORE strife is looming at South Africa’s Marikana platinum mines, as members of Amcu (the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union) warned Lonmin’s new...

AMNESTY International has urged the Egyptian authorities to ensure that an activist thought to have been arrested on 23 July is immediately freed and...

‘WE WILL win this fight!’ That was the message from speaker after speaker at a rally of more than 1,500 delegates from trade unions and...

A HEALTHCARE ‘procurement’ process that named a private provider as the preferred bidder for contracts worth £25m has been abandoned after NHS trusts threatened...

BRITAIN stabbed the Palestinian people in the back on Tuesday evening when it abstained on the vote at the UN Security Council supporting Palestinian...

‘FAMILIES are being forced to choose between staying on the right side of the law or feeding themselves,’ warned Labour’s Shadow communities secretary Hilary...

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

TALK has returned about plans to establish what are called ‘humanitarian’ shelter centres in Rafah, which are under the control of the Israeli occupation...

FOR 200 days, Abu Ismail Hammad has been digging beneath his destroyed home in Gaza City, sifting through the sand to collect the remains...

THE working class must kick out the Tories on June 8th and return Labour to government to set the scene for the struggle for...

‘PALESTINE is the spearhead of the struggle against colonisation,’ orthopaedic surgeon and founder of Medical Aid for Palestinians Dr Swee Ang told over 100...

The News Line is pleased to publish two important letters. These concern the decision of the Court of Appeal to uphold the decision of...

IRAN on Saturday started ceremonies of commemorating the 33rd anniversary of the demise of late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, in the...

On Sunday, the 2024 National Popular Consultation concluded with a massive participation of citizens throughout Venezuela. Carried out through over 15,000 polling centres, this democratic process...

‘THE CITY of Cape Town cannot be allowed to have its cake and eat it. We should not allow it to heap all praise...

After a £1.3 billion cash strip, the claim that Debenhams is worth double what the venture capitalists paid for it in 2003 is grotesque,...

THE commander of Iran’s Revolution Guards, Brig-Gen Rahim-Safavi, has told Iranian TV that Tehran now possesses modern missile systems, and that Iran is ready...

ISRAELI forces on Saturday night notified the families of three alleged Palestinian attackers of their intention to demolish their houses across the occupied West...

IRAN’S security chief has brushed aside reports about Israel’s budget for a potential attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, warning the Zionist regime that it...

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

THOUSANDS of Michigan citizens descended on the state Capitol last Tuesday, January 8, to show their outrage over efforts by corporate-driven legislators to pass...

‘JEREMY Hunt hear us say, NHS is here to stay!’ and ‘One fight – we are all united!’ chanted campaigners fighting to save A&Es...

Three days before Colombian President Uribe was scheduled to meet with President Bush on August 4th at his Crawford, Texas ranch, the State Department...

Two Ukrainian generals and up to 50 officers along with about 20 foreign mercenaries and military advisers were eliminated in Russia’s strike on the...

TENS of thousands of residents of the UNESCO world heritage site of Sur are among an estimated half a million people forced out of...

THE Hamas movement issued a statement last Monday slamming the US for its ‘pro-Israeli bias’. It stated: ‘The new Middle East plan is...

THE death toll in Haiti is mounting, with about 20,000 bodies driven out of the capital Port-au-Prince to be burned, according to the Haitian...

250,000 workers, youth and professionals demonstrated outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in central Athens last Wednesday evening against the Austerities Measures Bill. They were demanding...

PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas on has called on Palestinian people at home and abroad to continue their struggle, by all possible means, in defence...

TEACHERS have voted to ballot for a one-day strike as part of a campaign against Tory plans to force every school in England to...

THE leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, on 14 February warned Israel that it will respond to the killing the previous...

THERE is a huge increase in the number of teenagers going hungry during the summer holidays, a National Education Union (NEU) poll finds today....

IT HAS been predicted the African National Congress (ANC) will have a tough time persuading its alliance partners to get into a pact with the...

‘IT IS NOT implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza,’ declares...