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THE GMB trade union will hold a public protest at the Annual General Meeting of NEXT in Leicester this Thursday, May15. They will call for...

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

The National Union of Journalists in Ireland and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission on Thursday joined together to condemn new powers which threaten...

BILLIONS going into fat cats’ wallets and off-shore tax havens from Housing Benefit would be better spent building houses and homes for working people,...

IN a detailed report released by Amnesty International, the organisation has shed light on a dramatic increase in the deployment of unlawful lethal force...

AT LEAST 13 Palestinians were shot and injured – at least one seriously – during clashes with Israeli forces in Ramallah in the occupied...

The Gaza Health Ministry has held Israel responsible for the expiry of 50,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine recently delivered to the besieged coastal enclave. In...

SPEAKING in London last week to the British Medical Association’s conference of English Local Medical Committees (LMCs) in London, Dr Richard Vautrey, BMA GP...

TEN THOUSAND nurses began strikes this week, in the states of Minnesota, California and Massachusetts. The strikes were called by National Nurses United (NNU) over...

Supreme spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran will press on with its nuclear work. State television quoted Khamenei as saying:...

Disabled People will be protesting outside the DWP offices, Caxton House, 6-12 Tothill Street, London SW1 from 2.00pm next Monday, February 13. Disabled People Against...

Lower than expected college funding poses a severe threat to adult education and those who provide it, warns the latest edition of public sector...

MASS demonstrations have been taking place over the past weeks in Paris and other major French cities against the Macron government’s dictatorial health bill. And...

INITIAL reports say at least six Palestinians have been killed by the latest Israeli air strike on the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Several people...

An IRGC official has issued a stern warning that Israel will face immediate reciprocal attacks on its nuclear centres if it targets Iran’s nuclear...

IRISH Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern has told the trade unions it would be ‘reckless’ of them to seek a 10 per cent pay...

The Israeli army and intelligence agencies’ websites were offline on Sunday, two days after hacker group Anonymous warned it would ‘strike back’ in retaliation...

A SAUDI court has proceeded with a case against a child defendant at risk of the death penalty, contradicting the Saudi government’s claim it...

The Palestinian government and the Hamas movement have rejected the admittance of any Arab or international military forces to the Gaza Strip, or to...

THE CHINESE Communist Revolution, led by the Communist Party of China and Chairman Mao Zedong, resulted in the proclamation of the People’s Republic of...

IRAQ: Battle between US-led coalition, Iraqi forces and Islamic State creates civilian catastrophe in west Mosul, says Amnesty International. The main findings of its report...

ON THE same day the global Paradise Papers scandal exposed the offshore tax havens and tax avoidance strategies of companies including multinational mining giant,...

DOCTORS at the British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representatives Meeting (ARM) on Tuesday made a bid to press forward their advantage, after passing Motion...

The march set off at 1pm and was led by the banners of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Palestine...

ISRAELI armed forces on Wednesday imposed a curfew on Jerusalem’s Shuafat Refugee Camp after cordoning off the area, in an apparent prelude to punitively...

I don’t know which is the more terrifying: the American Dream or the American Nightmare. The dream? All of us on the margin of...

Members of the House of Commons Justice Committee are ‘shocked and appalled’ by the treatment of children at a privately run detention centre in Northamptonshire, they say in a report published on Monday. They have called on...

The Palestine Liberation Organisation issued a media brief on Tuesday, entitled: Israel’s Colonisation in Western Bethlehem and its Policy of Destroying the Prospects for...

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) condemns in the strongest terms the management of United Pharmaceutical Distribution (UPD) for shooting at...

‘THE incarceration and torture of political prisoners is an outright breach of International Humanitarian Law,’ says Palestinian ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian. ‘Israel acts...

  BY Fra Hughes PAT FINUCANE was gunned down as he sat down to dinner with his family one Sunday evening in Belfast on February 12,...

FOLLOWING Russian-Indian talks on 11 December 2014 in New Delhi, President Putin made the following statement. ‘Mr Prime Minister has mentioned that in 2000...

The Bush/Blair ‘war on terror’ has made conditions for asylum-seekers tougher in many countries, the UN refugee agency has warned. Speaking on World Refugee...

YESTERDAY, NHS consultants went out on a two-day strike, the first in nearly 50 years, over their demand for an increase in pay to...

HAMAS and other Palestinian factions agreed on Thursday to a framework for a Gaza ceasefire after months of mediation by Qatar and Egypt. ‘From our...

Palestinian and Israeli officials said on Wednesday that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) will close the international Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip...

PROTESTS are continuing throughout Peru demanding the resignation of President-designate Dina Boluarte, the closing of the Congress, the advancement of elections in 2023, and...

THROUGHOUT Britain, the Unite union is reporting, the aerospace industry and job futures for many thousands of workers are ‘at five to midnight’ –...

EGYPT’S defence minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned last Sunday that the army will intervene if violence breaks out in the country where rallies are...

EARLY on Sunday 5th January, about 50 members of the UK’s Special Air Service (SAS) were sent to Iraq ‘to help’ with the potential...

GREECE’S Seamen’s Pension Fund union held a general assembly to decide on further action on the second day of a two-day strike over pensions. Pension...

REPRIEVE has called on Lithuania to re-open its torture site inquiry after discovering another suspicious flight into Vilnius. Legal action charity Reprieve is demanding that...

THE US is handing millions of dollars of cash over to the White Helmets organisation, the Syrian and Russian coordination committees said on Tuesday. The...

At a press conference last Friday the Greek Finance Minister Yiorghos Papakonstantinou announced the main points of the revised IMF-EC Accord that calls for...

‘MY VISIT to Syria comes in the framework of the political meetings which are held periodically with Syrian officials to discuss and follow the...