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An appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that directed the Trump administration to return control of California’s National Guard troops...

THE BRITISH government has decided to ‘balance the books on the backs of the starving people of Yemen,’ in an act that will see...

MEMBERS of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have been joined by over 50 angry pensioners and other local residents in a demonstration against the...

The nights of the winter season are extremely harsh on the displacement camps in Gaza as the nights, which may be the coldest in...

HOLLYWOOD writers took to the picket lines on Monday to begin their first strike against the US film and television industry in nearly two...

A NEW revolutionary uprising has erupted in Morocco, with mass street protests spreading around the whole country. The uprising began in ‘The Rif,’ a...

THE copper-mining strike by 1,551 members of Sindicato de los Trabajadores de Collahuasi in Chile enters its second week today, with miners emboldened by...

AT DAWN on Sunday, Israeli warplanes launched over 30 raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut, in the ‘most violent attack’ on Lebanon since...

THE MEETING of the General Secretaries of the Palestinian Factions held last Friday in Ramallah and Beirut via video conference confirmed that our people,...

MPs and trade union leaders addressed a press conference at parliament on Wednesday organised by the Shrewsbury 24 Campaign. They demanded the release of documents...

Situation Facing US Federal Employees Today – by the AFGE (American Federation of Government Employees) trade union. ‘THE current political climate for all public employees,...

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...

Only half of GP practice buildings in England are fit for purpose, with surgeries too small to meet the demands of growing populations, a...

CONSTABLE Itumeleng Ntsileng from the police’s K9 Unit and two of his fellow officers have told South Africa’s City Press newspaper how at least...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas says the holy city of Jerusalem al-Quds can be the gate to either peace or war, and that it...

Unidentified armed men arriving on a motorcycle hurled a hand grenade on Friday around 5:30am on the house of a Muslim teacher in Ea’raavoor...

Over 1,500 trade unionists, youth and local residents last Saturday defied the rain to march and rally outside St Helier Hospital, near Sutton in...

THE UAW National Ford Council yesterday endorsed the union’s tentative agreement with Ford Motor Company on health care. The tentative agreement is subject to...

First speaker at the rally in Parliament Square was Louise Regan, the chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who said: ‘Since October, Palestinians have...

GMB shop stewards met in Manchester yesterday to plan strike action after members of the union at 20 Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots voted decisively...

THE Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement strongly warns the Israeli regime and illegal settlers against keeping up their provocations in the holy occupied city...

IN ITALY’S industrial heartland, immigrant textile workers have launched a wave of coordinated strikes that have forced dozens of factories to concede basic labour...

TWO MEN will be executed in Myanmar after the military junta rejected their death sentence appeals last Saturday, in what will be the first...

UK intelligence has been forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents’ Facebook and Google use, says Amnesty International. Amnesty is one of...

A Lack of safety measures once again led to a tragic accident in the capital’s Siddheshwari area, where three construction workers died after they...

THE Attorney General of Mexico has failed to properly investigate all lines of inquiry into allegations of complicity by armed forces and others in...

The Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) in a statement has urged the Sri Lanka Department of Elections to implement a proper programme...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors Conference in London on Saturday called for the immediate resignation of health secretary Patricia Hewitt and health...

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

THE INITIAL £6.25 billion spending cuts announced by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government on Monday, that will lead to thousands of sackings and closures...

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday never to repeat the 2005 removal of settlers from the Gaza Strip. ‘We will not repeat this...

THE Hamas Movement said on Tuesday that the heroic shooting operation, that took place east of Tulkarem that morning and led to the injury...

THE Hezbollah leader Hussein Nazrallah has been speaking about the significance of the heavy clashes with Israeli troops on the border with Israel,...

¸??ternational has released a new report which exposes a covert operation whereby people have been arrested or abducted, transferred and held in secret or...

PLO Executive Committee member Yasser Abed Rabbo has called on the European Union to take a firm stand against moving the Zionist settlers evacuated...

MINISTERS of Group 77 (coalition of developing countries at the United Nations) and China last Saturday reiterated their demand for the Israeli occupation to...

PALESTINIANS for Dignity’ reject the EU’s hypocrisy in upgrading its relations with the Israeli Occupation. ‘It has come to light over the...

Dear Editor, The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is working with other Trade Unions, politicians and members of the public to retain a wholly publicly owned...

We are gathering to ‘remember the dead and fight for the living’, RMT leader Pat Sikorski said at the rally at City Hall on...

‘COLLECTIVE punishment is never permissible under any circumstances,’ human rights charity Amnesty International said, in response to Israeli forces demolishing yet another family home. ties...

THE 371 USW United Steelworkers/Syndicat des Métallos workers in Quebec, Canada, have won their nine-month strike against Glencore-managed CEZinc. The workers went on strike at...

THE borders of the Kherson region are securely protected by the Russian military, and any attempts by the Ukrainian armed forces to advance towards...

MORE than a thousand parents, teachers, heads and support staff converged on Westminster on Tuesday to lobby MPs on school funding. Shadow education secretary Angela...

NINE human rights NGOs (non-governmental organisations), including Reprieve, are urging prime minister Cameron to honour his 2010 promise of an independent, judge-led inquiry into...

THERE is widespread opposition amongst members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) trade union in America to the deal its leaders agreed to call...