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Russian air defence systems have struck nine Ukrainian Air Force aircraft, including seven Su-27s, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported on Tuesday. They said: ‘Two...

Selvaraja Pathmanathan, the LTTE plenipotentiary for international relations, gave an interview to TamilNet on Monday. TamilNet: How do you view the response of...

AMID international efforts to de-escalate tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli settlers have once again raided the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied...

‘A system that was already in chaos is going to (experience) a lot more chaos,’ United Nurses of Alberta President Heather Smith warned on...

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...

STUART Appelbaum president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) has spoken about the campaign to unionise Amazon workers. ‘In Bessemer, Alabama, a...

THE Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Wednesday that his country is determined to fight against ‘PKK terrorists’ operating out of northern Iraq. He urged...

THE ‘project of political Islam has failed,’ Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday, calling for the separation of religion from politics, state television...

UKRAINE’S Right Sector neo-Nazi battalion has deployed multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) in a school in the New York settlement, and is firing at Russian...

THE AFL-CIO US trade union federation stated yesterday that the Obama administration has made the deplorable decision to upgrade Malaysia – a major...

Dr Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, has revealed an unprecedented spread of anaemia among children in the Gaza...

WASHINGTON’S already tense relationship with the 82,000-strong Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces militia coalition suffered a major blow in January after PMF deputy commander Abu...

There was a powerful 2,000-strong demonstration in support of Venezuela in Whitehall opposite Downing Street on Monday night. The protest was organised by the Venezuela...

THE NHS has squandered billions on agencies that could have been used to hire over 31,000 nurses, says the Royal College of Nursing. New analysis...

A group of Palestinian children arrived in Dublin on Friday to receive medical treatment in Ireland. The eight children were evacuated from Gaza, accompanied by...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa’s (NUMSA) is threatening a national strike against electricity power company Eskom. A NUMSA statement said: ‘The National...

RECENT attacks on Al-Qaeda positions in Yemen, including cruise missile strikes, were led by the United States according to a CBS television report Saturday. The...

NEW evidence showing that Israeli forces carried out war crimes in retaliation for the capture of an Israeli soldier was released on Wednesday in...

MEMBERS of the national education, health and allied workers’ Union (Nehawu) embarked on a strike last Friday in protest against working conditions. The employees...

DELEGATES at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Manchester have called for action over pay, privatisation and teachers’ workload. During...

MEMBERS of the PLO Executive Committee Hanan Ashrawi and Saeb Erekat on Wednesday slammed the United Kingdom’s decision to ban the boycott of Israeli...

THE ‘re-configuration’ of 60 District General Hospitals (DGHs) means a huge reduction in National Health Service (NHS) hospital capacity. This will result in the loss...

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,...

MUSTAFA al-Tha’i worked in secret at night, using his brushes and pencils to record the violence he saw during the day under the Islamic...

THE ANC leadership is influenced by ‘liars and rogues,’ anti-apartheid activist and retired Constitutional Court judge Zak Yacoob said. Reflecting on his judicial work which...

In this, the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on World Refugee Day, Amnesty International called on states to...

TWO striking garment workers were shot dead by police in Bangladesh on Monday. Almost 140 Bangladeshi garment factories were shut as thousands of workers took...

DAMASCUS – President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday that any political idea for resolving the crisis in Syria that isn’t based on eliminating terrorism...

There is no good evidence that independent sector treatment centres have provided additional capacity, value for money, or high quality care, argue researchers in...

THE LEADER of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has slammed Saudi Arabia for doing the bidding of the United States, saying the Riyadh regime has...

ISRAELI forces on Wednesday ordered all Palestinian residents of Khirbit Tana, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, to leave their homes to...

IN HER foreword to the US Department of Labor’s findings on the worst forms of child labour in 2011, Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of...

ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared on Monday that Israel and the United States were holding behind-the-scenes talks geared at resolving the recent deadlock...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that Gaza’s famine risk is surging, endangering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians amid deepening food insecurity and...

‘BRITAIN must impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel and recognise the state of Palestine. We demand Israel gets out of Rafah, Gaza,...

SAFTU (South African Federation of Trade Unions) has convened a Working Class Summit on Friday August 5 ‘to prepare a fight back’. It said: ‘In...

TAMILNET reports that gangs of Sinhala youths brandishing Lion flags in the name of victory against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), have...

Postal workers in the Paris region are on an open-ended strike starting Monday, September 21, against the closure of 185 Paris post offices and...

A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip was holding on Monday for a second day, despite continued violence in the occupied West Bank where two...

‘Capitalism is bankrupt worldwide and has to be brought down. In Britain there is a massive strike wave and the working class is crying...

HEALTH workers throughout the country came out solidly on strike on Monday against the government’s refusal to increase their pay by 1% for those...

THE Libyan leader Muammar Al-Gadaffi has made a defiant 12-minute statement on the anniversary of the ‘1 September Revolution’ that was broadcast by Al-Ra’y...

‘WHAT do we want – the living wage!’ ‘When do we want it – now!’ shouted over a hundred striking BECTU members and supporters...

IRAQ’s election race tightened between the two main rivals Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the former Premier Iyad Allawi, after a count, of 79...

FACING an imposed ‘suffocating financial crisis,’ Palestinian officials have made no immediate comment yet on an EU decision on Tuesday to suspend 35 million...