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PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday the victory of the Syrian people and their allies in the war against terrorism would contribute to...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in the Syrian capital on Sunday to reaffirm Tehran’s firm support for Damascus amid the surprise offensive by...

The puppet Iraqi Oil Ministry announced Saturday that fire had erupted in the oil tanks of Al-Dawrah Refinery, southern Baghdad, last night. A ministry spokesman...

IN ITS first acts of desperation, the new government of Prime Minister Liz Truss has decided to announce that the moratorium on fracking has...

Junior doctors are meeting today to discuss what to do about the government’s disastrous ‘reforms’ to post graduate medical training. The British Medical Association...

ON JULY 9th, 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an Advisory Opinion on the wall Israel had started building in the occupied...

THE DECISION to renew the detention of Amnesty International’s Turkey Chair just hours after a court ordered his release must be immediately reversed and...

GERMANY will send 2,000 additional anti-tank weapons to Ukraine to replenish the country’s depleting arsenal and bolster its defences against the Russian military operation. The...

THE Israeli military killed at least 20 people on Monday morning, including four journalists serving international outlets, during back-to-back strikes against an overstretched hospital...

A 400 strong packed meeting at Lambeth Town Hall on Tuesday night commemorated the fourth anniversary of the death of Sean Rigg in Brixton...

‘WE are not going to leave, we will fight them to the end and this only ends when we are given a permanent home!’ This...

THE head of the Hamas government in Gaza on Tuesday urged Palestinians to respect Egypt’s security so that Cairo would keep open the Rafah...

THE Communication Workers Union will collect petitions and raise public awareness of the threats to privatise Royal Mail when it descends on Corby Town...

MORE than two million garment workers have been sacked in Bangladesh since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Because of fewer orders from the United...

TAMILNET reports that according to reports of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, last week over 13,000 internally displaced people have...

SALARY negotiations between South Africa’s government and public servants for 2021 have gone awry. Trade unions representing public servants have tabled a wage increase...

ON TUESDAY, 10 July, miners from Donetsk, Lugansk, Volyn, and Lviv regions held a protest in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. Since 6th July miners...

The Howard League for Penal Reform has again slammed the Tories’ preferred prisons privateer G4S following the scandal revealed by the BBC Panorama programme...

‘WE have an NHS and maternity service that is heading for a crisis and the government’s policies are clearly failing,’ the leader of the...

A MASS strike at General Motors plants across the United States began on Monday morning as 80,000 car workers walked out at 11 am...

DELAYS in Palestinian Authority employees salaries are unacceptable and government workers’ concerns must not be ignored, a union leader said last Tuesday. Government employees union...

RUSSIAN Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu says Moscow has completed the main objectives of the first phase of the special military operation in Ukraine and...

ROYAL Mail staff walked out on strike in London and other parts of the country again yesterday, as a national ballot by the Communication...

The NHS white paper, which heralds the rapid privatisation of the health service, has no democratic mandate from the public, Unite said on Monday. Unite...

THE AFL-CIO, NFL Players Association, the NOW, Netroots Nation, the LGBT organisations and many more joined Hyatt housekeepers for the launch of a worldwide...

ONLY four police officers in Kenya so far are to face prosecution for shooting and killing protesters over the last four weeks, amid rising...

FIREFIGHTERS in England are striking for 24 hours from 7am this morning in their long running dispute with the government over its unworkable pension...

THE Lebanese premier Fu’ad Al Siniora has urged Arab leaders at a special Beirut conference, held on Monday, to strive for an immediate cease-fire...

THE war in Syria poses the greatest threat to US security because of the risk of the government falling and the country becoming a...

THE Greek authorities must act immediately to curb the growing spate of xenophobic and racist attacks, Amnesty International says. It follows a brutal knife attack...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ismail Haniya on Sunday called on President Mahmud Abbas to adopt a quick decision to withdraw all members of the...

COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions) remembers the tragic events that led to the death of 44 workers in Marikana, in the North...

SEVERAL students were arrested at the end of an occupation of Parliament Square by hundreds of student protesters on Wednesday. They were part of a...

MORE than 2,000 senior NHS doctors have signed a letter calling on Prime Minister Theresa May to increase spending on health and social care...

‘WHOSE NHS? Our NHS!’ chanted over 150 junior doctors from east London hospitals at a lunchtime strike rally outside Hackney Town Hall on Thursday. One...

TribAL leaders in southern Iraq accused the US Administration last week of attempting to establish permanent bases in Iraq to strike against its opposing...

NHS and local council cuts are hitting lifeline care for seriously ill children, a survey of 27 children’s hospices in England carried out by...

The president of the Palestinian National Council, Rawhi Fattouh, has called for Israel’s expulsion from the United Nations if it fails to reverse its...

UKRAINE took advantage of the Easter truce to launch strikes on Russian territory, advisor to the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Igor...

MISSILE defence talks between Russian and NATO military officials in the past 10 days have reached another impasse, Deputy Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov said...

THE Sri Lankan military intelligence unit took into custody twenty five young men in the country’s western province, (Colombo, Gampaha) on February 5 2005...

SHOCKING new allegations of the systematic and barbaric torture of Iraqi detainees by US troops have been released by Human Rights Watch. Several US soldiers...

THE following emergency resolution was carried unanimously at last year’s TUC Congress. The resolution was the TUC’s response to the Gate Gourmet management’s...

IN TRAFALGAR Square, the chairwoman introduced the 11th national demonstration for Freedom and Justice for Palestine on Saturday 30 March, as of special significance...

Cuts and lack of training led to the deaths of two firefighters in Hertfordshire, the Fire Brigades Union says in its comment following...