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OFFICIALS of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Vanni told TamilNet on Saturday that their defensive formations at Mallaavi had thwarted...

Israeli forces raided the al-Quds University, on Wednesday, in Abu Dis village, south east of the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem. Local...

As reported in the News Line on Wednesday, Blair’s invasion of Iraq ‘substantially’ increased the terrorist threat to the UK, the former MI5 Director...

AFTER having pushed to separate oil rich South Sudan from the North, the US is now preparing for military action against the north, accusing...

DISCUSSION ARTICLE BY FRA HUGHES IN BELFAST IRELAND has been partitioned North from South for nearly 100 years. 2021 will mark the centenary of the formation of...

Palestinians took to the streets across the West Bank and Israel to commemorate Land Day at the weekend, in protest against ongoing Israeli confiscation...

The US Economic Policy Institute (EPI) last week published three reports showing the extent to which America’s workers are losing ground this Labour Day,...

MEMBERS of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) are vowing to fight as long as it takes to defeat the government’s heavy-handed, anti-union moves...

ON 18th May the doctors union, the BMA, announced that it had agreed a new contract for junior doctors. The BMA had completed eight days...

A SENIOR Israeli official has warned the leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas against a large-scale operation in the besieged Gaza Strip, asserting...

‘SAVE Charlie Chaplin ward – Don’t let it close! Save Ealing Hospital – Trade unions must act! Defend children’s services – Occupy now!’ demanded...

JAILED hunger striker Samer Issawi has now stopped taking water after refusing food for 188 days, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said on Tuesday. A PPS...

THOUSANDS of public workers have stormed the Rio de Janeiro assembly, occupying the building in protest at the right wing Brazilian government’s savage cuts...

By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER IRISH republicans must re-negotiate their political relationship with unionists, the president of the North’s largest nationalist party, Sinn Fein,...

HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has decried the recent bombing in Beirut, whilst warning that outgoing US President Bush’s visit to the Middle East was...

RADICAL cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gave a lengthy interview to Al-Jazeera Satellite Television last Saturday about the US occupation of Iraq. He was first asked...

Over 500 London Region Fire Brigades Union (FBU) members and officials rallied at the TUC on Tuesday evening as they gear up to fight...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to RTP TV channel on 16 November 2016. Question 1: Mr. President, let’s start with Aleppo if you don’t...

A NEWLY released report submitted to the United Nations by international organizations working in Hebron (Al Khalil) documents a sharp increase in serious...

RMT members at Northern Rail have voted for strike action against sackings and casualisation.’ In a statement the RMT said: ‘Northern Rail management have run...

‘LENIN started out from a position that Art is the most powerful means of political propaganda for the triumph of the Socialist cause,’ Margy...

A FLEET of Israeli bulldozers and military vehicles crossed the border fence into the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday and flattened private Palestinian...

THE College of Emergency Medicine published a startling report yesterday entitled: ‘Stretched to the Limit’. It was based upon a survey of Emergency Medicine Consultants...

UNIVERSITY students are working more and more – during holidays and during term-time – just to survive, says a joint report just published by...

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...

Israel strengthened its forces along the border with the Gaza Strip last Sunday, fearful that thousands of Palestinians may march on the border against...

Retired Major General Sarath Fonseka will be tried over five charges under Army Act at a court martial within the next few days, Military...

EGYPTIAN President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi played a pivotal role in helping Fatah and Hamas overcome their differences to form a National Consensus Government in...

The biggest gathering was in Gaza City, where officials from the Hamas-run interior ministry said vast crowds had packed into the city’s Square of...

DOZENS of people have been killed in Turkish bombardments in Syria since Sunday, as Ankara ramps up its unprecedented offensive against Kurdish fighters and...

TENS OF THOUSANDS of junior doctors struck yesterday and many told News Line just how determined they were to stop the imposed contracts and...

RECENT Israeli actions against the Palestinian people indicate that Israel has given priority to settlement expansion and the demands of settlers over peace and...

Israeli jets fired missiles at a car in Gaza City on Saturday night, killing three people, said the Israeli army. It claimed at least...

A GP surgery facing a 46 per cent cut to its funding over the next three years embodies the threat facing the profession, the...

ZERO-HOURS workers earn nearly £300 a week less, on average, than permanent employees, according to a new report published on Monday to mark the...

In his Utah speech to army veterans last Thursday, US President Bush threatened Iran with ‘consequences’, adding that the US will step up its...

‘WE invite other heads of state to come to Minsk for the Victory Parade,’ Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he talked to the...

MEMBERS of National Nurses United (NNU), the US’s largest union of registered nurses, on Tuesday celebrated Senator Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire primary win, saying...

THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned that about 600,000 people in the war-torn Yemen could contract cholera by December this...

Israeli forces raided the Jerusalem office of a university media institute on Monday, shutting down the launch of an online media network and detaining...

RAMZY BAHROUD is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. He has just written his latest book: ‘My Father Was a Freedom...

‘FOR many years the extreme right in Bolivia, based in the oil and gas rich east of the country and very much controlled by...

An Israeli military court has refused an appeal by long-term hunger-strikers Thaer Halahla and Bilal Diyab to end their detention without charge, prisoners groups...

LEADER of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called on Iranian authorities not to back down in the face of the United...

PALESTINIANS around the world marked the fifth anniversary of the death of President Yasser Arafat yesterday. In the West Bank, where Arafat’s Fatah movement...