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IRANIAN Minister of Petroleum Javad Owji says Iran’s crude oil and petrochemical exports continue without disruption after the Biden administration announced a new round...

ON Sunday, April 15, the Office of the United States Trade Representative announced that on May 15, 2012, American competitiveness would increase when the...

AGAINST a background of economic collapse with unemployment rising to nearly 30 per cent, the ANC government of South Africa, driven by the Treasury,...

HUNDREDS of thousands of supporters of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party on Friday held their first mass rally in Gaza since Hamas took...

ON April 21, Ireland held a State ceremony commemorating 100 years since Roger Casement landed at Banna Strand in Kerry as...

FRANCE is experiencing an ‘epidemic of serious eye injuries’ as police repeatedly fire golf-ball-sized rubber bullets at Yellow Vest protesters, the country’s top ophthalmologists...

Over 200,000 flag-waving Palestinians attended a mass rally in Gaza on Sunday marking the 21st anniversary of the founding of the Hamas movement. Addressing the...

Iran and Russia have officially started to implement a 20-year comprehensive strategic partnership treaty, signalling a significant step towards deepening bilateral ties between the...

SOCIAL WORK managers in Renfrewshire in Scotland have spent almost £4 million on agency care staff in just five years, figures reveal. Renfrewshire Health and...

Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Civil Affairs Minister Muhammad Dahlan met with a Hamas leadership delegation comprising Isma’il Haniyah and Sa’id Siyam, in Gaza, at...

SYRIA’S Head of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums, Mahmoud Hamoud, said that the Directorate is filing a file for stolen antiquities to...

The National Union of Students (NUS) yesterday published a ‘groundbreaking’ report which highlights the faults of the university funding system in unprecedented detail. In ‘Broke...

Ian Leahair, FBU Executive Council Member for London, on Thursday issued the following statement on London fire commissioner Ron Dobson’s threat to sack the...

‘I bring a message of defiance from Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the state of Palestine, and from besieged and heroic Gaza, and from...

The British Medical Association (BMA) last Wednesday, raised that overseas doctors are experiencing discrimination as a result of new immigration restrictions. Since last month, NHS...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Nicolas Maduro on being re-elected President of Venezuela, noting the strategic partnership between Moscow and Caracas. ‘Russian-Venezuelan relations have...

NEARLY 1,000 US Fire Fighters (IAFF) are set to take part in today’s 2008 presidential campaign’s first bipartisan candidate forum on Wednesday in Washington,...

Turmoil in the global economy has increased the urgency for a fair and balanced industrial relations system, said Australian Council of Trade Unions (actu)...

OVER 1,000 British Airways (BA) baggage handlers, loaders and other ‘below-wing’ ground staff workers voted unanimously in favour of strike action at a mass...

THE entire population of the Gaza Strip is at risk of dying in Israel’s genocide, says special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. The United Nations expert on...

PUERTO RICO’s Governor Ricardo Rosselló resigned on Thursday – just three days after a million demonstrators marched down Puerto Rico’s Las Americas highway insisting...

ISRAELI forces on Friday shot and killed 18 Palestinians as they assaulted rallies that set out to commemorate Land Day on many...

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on Tuesday submitted its evidence, highlighting the impact on patient services of Trust actions to manage their budgets,...

SIX white Mississippi police officers have pleaded guilty to state charges for torturing two black men in a racist assault in the United States. All...

‘THE murderous NATO child killers are continuing their terror raids on Libyan civilians’. Libyan government spokesman Musa Ibrahim, speaking in the city of Surman, west...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday made public hundreds of claims for damages by family members of civilians killed or injured by...

From an article by Di Stefania Maurizi FOR the last six years, the Crown Prosecution Service have rejected all of our attempts to shed light...

WHITTINGTON Hospital is threatened with being reduced to a ‘local hospital’ through having its Accident and Emergency and other vital Departments closed, and...

TamilNet reported on Wednesday a press conference of Canadian Academics for Tamil Rights in Toronto. The academics stressed recognition of the self-determination of Tamils as...

ANGRY workers and youth demonstrated near a traffic checkpoint set up by police and federal agents in Washington DC, on Wednesday night as President...

Chairman, retired judge Sir Christopher Holland formally opened a public inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney at 10.30am on Wednesday and adjourned it...

AT the rally in Whitehall, next to Downing Street, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said: ‘It has been one year of genocide...

FRIDAY 2 January was a typical day in Venezuelan capital Caracas. The roads were unusually quiet and few people were out on the streets,...

‘TODAY the greatest crisis ever of the capitalist system is driving forward revolution in every country, as the workers of the world decide that...

IN A ‘Protect Teachers and Defend Education’ campaign update, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) said strike action is set to go ahead in...

GMB members are demonstrating outside Marks & Spencer store in Regent Street, Swindon from 11am today, 11th February, ‘in protest against modern day slavery...

THE Secretary of the Greek government, Panagiotis Baltakos, a close aide for decades of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, has been revealed as the go-between...

American trade unions, SEIU and the Teamsters have disaffiliated from the national AFL-CIO confederation, and four major unions – the Teamsters, Food and Commercial Workers, UNITE...

A DOSSIER relating to a complaint delivered last Friday to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court regarding the responsibility of...

WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader...

‘THIS Easter will be worse than any winter for the NHS,’ warned Alastair McLellan, the editor of Health Service Journal (HSJ), in a leading...

AL JAZEERA TV has been closed down in the West Bank by the Palestine Authority (PA). The action took place after PLO leader Farouk Kaddoumi...

Al-Sharqiyah TV reported on its 2 pm news broadcast last Sunday the security and political developments of that day. The report stated: ‘The US Army...

NEARLY 800 nurses at a Bucks County hospital in Pennsylvania went on strike last Tuesday and Wednesday over dangerously low staffing levels that prevent...

THE Australian trade unions have welcomed the victory of the Labour Party in the general election, but doubts are growing over whether the new...