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THE Libyan people and their armed forces are more than giving NATO a run for its money. In fact they are bringing the ‘mighty...

RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday he does not rule out sanctions against Iran but added that if used, they should be balanced and...

Merseyside fire crews have branded the latest round of cuts planned for the local fire service as ‘irresponsible and maso-chistic’. Merseyside Fire Brigades Union (FBU)...

A NEW YORK Times investigation into the UK’s handling of the pandemic reveals misuse of government funds on a massive scale during its Covid-19...

ECUADOR has granted asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange because it believes he will be politically persecuted if extradited, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño...

PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas has rejected US proposals for Israel to keep troops in a future Palestinian state along its border with Jordan, a Palestinian...

TEHRAN’S Friday prayer leader, Chairman of the Expediency Council, and ex-President of Iran Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, told worshippers ‘Wherever America goes, it finally...

SEVEN Palestinian firefighters have come over from Hebron in the occupied West Bank to train with the Fire Brigade Union (FBU) of Scotland to...

LECTURERS at 64 universities across the UK began 14 days of strike action on Thursday against imposed changes to their pensions. They were out...

TAMILNET reports that the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) of the Sri Lankan government continues to torture hundreds of Tamil youths arrested and detained under...

FOUR Palestinian youths from Nablus, aged 19 and under, were killed by the Israeli occupation army on March 20 and 21. An Israeli military statement...

THE British security and snoop service MI5 has been unlawfully retaining innocent people’s data for years,’ alleged rights organisation Liberty. ‘It has also failed,’ Liberty...

NHS! NHS! NHS! chanted 20,000 junior doctors, medical students, health workers and supporters as they marched in central London on Saturday. ‘The BMA is balloting...

THEY are smashing up the NHS as founded in 1948. The health service in England Wales and Northern Ireland is in huge crisis. Cuts...

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

THE MACRON government is mobilising against the Gradual Cessation of Activity Agreement signed at the SNCF because it will allow French railway workers to...

ISRAEL’S policy regarding Palestinian neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem is driven by its goal to take over as much land as possible and expand...

SOUTH Africa’s mining companies have recorded hundreds of Covid-19 cases, with most not complying with government measures – and also not complying with requirements...

WE WANT Tamil Eelam!’, ‘Don’t kill Tamil people!’, ‘Let us live in peace!’, ‘Rajapakse – war criminal!’ and ‘Sri Lanka – terror government!’ shouted...

ISRAELI forces early on Friday detained three Palestinians, including a minor, from multiple West Bank districts, said security sources. Israeli forces raided Rummana, a...

THE US trade unions are gearing up for the battle to get Barack Obama elected as the president of the United States, believing that...

‘THE GOVERNMENT must resolve the long-term funding, capacity and recruitment issues’ if it is going to avoid a ‘winter crisis’ all year round, doctors...

‘THE hardworking families of the AFL-CIO will join with our allies to defeat the TPP,’ says Trumka. After the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...

UNISON has called on the Public Accounts Committee and the Assembly Health Committee to investigate the startling growth of private medicine funded out of...

ANTI-CAPITALIST St Paul’s occupiers were defiant and determined to stay despite attempts to evict them through the courts. Ev Emanon from Anonymous UK camped at...

THE DISCOVERY of hundreds of mass graves at the Nasser and al-Shifa hospital complexes, where United Nations (UN) officials reported that bodies were ‘buried...

PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has warned the West against underestimating Russia, saying it is ‘impossible’ to defeat his country in Ukraine, but that Moscow does...

Around 4,000 Palestinian workers from Hebron face an arduous journey every day as they try to cross into Israel via the Tarqumiya checkpoint. The luckiest...

FIVE years ago, in the early hours of the morning of June 14th 2017, a kitchen fire led to an inferno that set alight...

The women from Avocet and Dove units, along with a few men on the family wing, are refusing food and are planning further protests....

MORE THAN 170,000 workers marched through Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday, while tens of thousands of others marched through Sydney, Wollongong, Gladstone, Cairns, Mackay, Darwin,...

THE devastating impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout continue to take a toll on the world and provide ample reason to...

British lawyers representing the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmed Saadat, are considering suing the British Foreign Office...

REVOLUTION is brewing, in the most unlikely of places, as staff walked out last Friday from the British Museum’s cultured halls to strike....

THE British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM), which opens in Torquay today, gathers at a time of unprecedented challenges for the medical...

THE PROPORTION of UK adults on low incomes who face hunger has almost doubled since 2004, with the unemployed and disabled particularly vulnerable, says...

THE occupied East Jerusalem suburb of Issawiyeh has long been a flashpoint for confrontations between Israeli soldiers and its Palestinian residents. But even by Israel’s...

The Unite union has called for the rejection of the government’s final public sector pensions package. ‘The government is steamrolling through its final offer on...

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...

THOUSANDS joined the United Steelworkers (USW) at a solidarity rally on Saturday in Findlay Ohio to support 1,051 members of Local 207L who have...

Survivors and families of the Union Carbide Corpora-tion (UCC)/Dow Chemical plant disaster at Bhopal in India, and their international supporters, have been celebrating victory...

ON THE second day of CWU strike action against the Post Office’s wage-cutting and job-cutting attacks, Tony O’Donovan, unit rep in the largest Crawley...

TUC Congress delegates in Liverpool on Tuesday voted for composite motion C22: ‘Right to boycott’ from the National Education Union. Moving the motion, Louise Regan,...

ASSAILANTS shot dead an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander in Syria while he was travelling by road from Damascus towards the Lebanese capital Beirut, the...

STRIKING senior doctors in Zimbabwe have accused the government of misleading the nation – by suggesting it had secured large quantities of essential drugs...