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WEAPONS supplied by the United Kingdom and the United States to the Saudi-led coalition in war-torn Yemen killed at least 839 civilians and wounded 1,775...

An aid flotilla will set sail for the Gaza Strip in June, organisers announced on Monday after a meeting in France. The Freedom Flotilla II...

Egypt’s ambassador to the Palestinian territories Yasser Othman on Tuesday said there will be ‘big changes’ in Egypt’s policies towards the Gaza Strip. Othman told...

THE El-Khabar newspaper in Algeria has reported on the preparations of imperialist countries to launch a military campaign against Islamist militias in Libya. It states:...

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

‘ISRAEL is going to enter the Guinness Book of Records for having built the world’s biggest prison,’ said an angry Abed Yabrud, waiting his...

A GROUP of senior doctors from Gaza say they endured beatings, torture and prolonged incarceration at the hands of Israeli forces during the recent...

THIS speech was delivered on May 9, 1924 during discussions at the Press Department of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) on Party Policy...

THE Coronavirus Infection Survey published by the Office for National Statistics has revealed the extent that the virus swept through the school system and...

‘Now that the international community is finally beginning to pay attention to the existence of an estimated two million Iraqi refugees in the Middle...

Lebanese Prime Minister Fu’ad al-Siniora condemned an Israeli commando raid early Saturday morning against a position held by Hezbollah in the Al-Biqa as ‘a...

ON THE day marking the fifth anniversary of the first detainees being transported to the US concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay, on the tip...

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...

THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court has said it will not take action against the UK, despite its finding of evidence British troops committed war crimes...

SIPTU Bus Drivers in Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann have voted by over 90%, in both companies, in favour of industrial action and strike...

COSATU Africa Day Statement May 25, 2021 THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) joins millions of Africans on the continent, and in the...

An undercover unit of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) backed by 15 military vehicles stormed into and imposed curfew on the northern West Bank...

TENS of thousands of Gazans are still homeless and without basic services such as piped drinking water three months after the 18 January ceasefire,...

ISRAEL has arrested some 16,500 Palestinian children since the outbreak of the Second Intifada (uprising) in late-2000, a study says. Abdul-Naser Farwana, a Palestinian ex-prisoner...

ISRAELI authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinian civilians in Gaza of adequate access to water since October 2023, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths and...

THE Palestinian Information Centre, the website of Hamas, last Friday posted a statement by Hamas denouncing PNA President Mahmud Abbas’s speech...

RESPONDING to the plans for ‘secret justice’ and closed courts set out in the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday, Reprieve’s Executive Director, Clare Algar said:...

HAMAS is ready to meet with Fatah central committee member Nabil Sha’th in Gaza to discuss Palestinian reconciliation, Hamas leader Atallah Abu As-Sabeh said...

Residents of a Nablus village announced on Sunday they would start a hunger strike to protest against Israeli demolition orders and confiscation of their...

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 US has launched a fresh attempt to have WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange extradited from Britain to face charges that could jail him for...

‘WHAT is the NHS? To those who run it, a vast endeavour employing 1.4m people, consuming one pound in every six of public spending....

Far-right violence erupted across the UK in early August, prompting an alliance of football fans to rally in defence of threatened communities. In Liverpool, supporters...

‘DISABLED people and their families are struggling to make ends meet and feel increasingly nervous about the future’, warned Disability UK on Monday. ‘Crucial decisions...

Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has said he hopes a concert in Tskhinvali will help the world to see the ‘truth’ of what happened in...

BLACK men are seven times more likely to die following police restraint but racism is not being addressed, the charity Inquest has found. Families of...

ARTS technicians’ union BECTU’S submission to parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee, ahead of October’s Comprehensive Spending Review, predicts ‘conflict’ over savage cuts...

‘RIGHT TO BUY ‘is nothing short of Whitehall-sanctioned robbery of the taxpayer,’ Tom Copley, London Assembly Labour Housing spokesperson, said yesterday. Copley added that the...

DOZENS of delegates walked out of a United Nations conference on racism after Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, Iran's president, correctly described the Israeli cabinet as a...

OVER 15,000 students, lecturers and supporters marched through central London on Saturday to demand free education for all. The largest education demonstration in years was...

THE MURDEROUS US strike on the Shayrat Syrian air base last Friday crossed ‘red lines’ and any new aggression will be met by a...

Tens of thousands of workers at University of California campuses and UC health care facilities started a 48-hour strike on Wednesday. The strike includes more...

PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas has called on international mediators to take effective and concrete steps to compel Israel to comply with its obligations under...

THE life expectancy of Colombians has been reduced by at least two years as a result of the country’s armed conflict and violence related...

WORLD leaders are spectacularly failing refugees, says Amnesty International UK in its latest report Tackling Global World Refugee Crisis – from Shirking to Shared...

A BALLOT of Royal College of Nursing members in Scotland has shown the majority are willing to take part in strike action – with the...

ON average 1,000 refugees are now arriving on the Greek islands every day creating an unprecedented emergency for Greece and other countries, the UN...

STAFF and students at the University of Reading held a special demonstration yesterday against government cuts to higher education. The lobby was organised by...

ISRAELI occupation forces on Sunday detained five Palestinians from the West Bank districts of Ramallah and Hebron, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). The...

RAN’S Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf has called on neighbouring Iraq to ‘vigorously’ follow up on the US assassination of top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General...