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BRITAIN was involved in smuggling arm shipments to the terrorists in Syria from the beginning of 2012, training and organising them under the name...

Members of the 53-nation African Union held a summit meeting in the Libyan coastal town of Sirte last Monday and Tuesday, on the eve...

WORKERS, local residents and patients yesterday expressed their determination to keep all the departments at Chase Farm Hospital open. They gave their support to the...

WORLD leaders have extended their congratulations to Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi on his victory in Iran’s 2021 presidential election. Raeisi garnered almost 62 per cent of...

A report published on Monday, March 30 by Amnesty International reveals a pattern of serious human rights violations by Greek police and other...

EMPLOYEES working for Turkey’s Feza Media Group were allowed to enter the Zaman newspaper building in Istanbul at 8am Saturday after an ID check...

JULIAN Assange supporters held a lively protest outside the Australian High Commission in London on Wednesday, the 1,000th day of his imprisonment in Belmarsh...

ALMOST every school in the country is to have its funding slashed, some by as much as £1,000 per pupil per year, under the...

Reductions in child poverty are being reversed by the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s onslaught on welfare benefits, a report from the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)...

UNITED Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl affirmed on Friday that his recent visit...

TWO major humanitarian alerts issued on Tuesday and Wednesday underscored the accelerating collapse of living conditions in the Gaza Strip, where tens of thousands...

Changes to public sector pensions could mean doctors paying over £200,000 more over the course of their careers for a worse deal on retirement,...

THE University of London Students Union has slammed a letter sent to them by the University management which threatens to prosecute anyone who demonstrates...

THE POLITBURO chief of Palestine’s Hamas resistance movement says the Israeli regime will not be able to change the reality on the ground across...

‘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...

‘The Iraqis today do not have control over their political, security or social situation – control is in the hands of the occupation, those...

CIVIL servants union PCS has slammed the increase in benefit sanctions on the unemployed, that average at 64,307 per month, as ‘truly shocking’. PCS added...

Hundreds of members of the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) marched to the Cape Town Civic Centre to deliver a memorandum...

AS the Tory government freezes school funding, a National Union of Teachers (NUT) survey shows the shocking impact of cuts so far. A survey of...

The armed wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades says most of the Israeli captives held in northern Gaza have gone missing, holding...

The destruction of Palestinian residences by Israel in the West Bank is intensifying at an alarming rate. In the period following 7 October, Israeli forces...

MORE than a week after Donald Trump’s election as next US president, protesters continue to take to the streets in the US and elsewhere...

TAMILNET reports that Sri Lanka’s parliament on Tuesday adopted a motion to extend the State of Emergency for another month by a majority of...

A THOUSAND workers and youth demonstrated outside Downing Street on Saturday, 10th of January, in support of Venezuela and for the release of their...

ON 22nd July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent member of the public, was killed by Metropolitan Police officers in a grotesque and...

WHEN CARILLION collapsed last month it left the future of the new Royal Liverpool Hospital in limbo. The half-built £335 million hospital which has already...

SOUTH Africa’s trade union federation COSATU has expressed concern over ongoing factional battles in the governing ANC party, allegations of vote buying by the...

IN THE same week that the Glencore Lockout reached its 200th day last Friday, the nearly 200 locked out workers defiantly rejected an attempt...

OVER the weekend, Picturehouse cinema chain BECTU members continued to defy a threat to sack them if they continued their strike action in a...

UNEXPLODED bombs and the uncontrolled dumping of rubbish pose the greatest environmental and public health risks to residents of the Gaza Strip, according to...

SCHOOLS were shut once again on Monday morning for 1,500 students in Prospect Heights School District 23, in Chicago, Illinois. The increasingly combative teachers...

The Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) is about to start its Kliper launch vehicle project, the head of the agency told a Moscow press conference...

TEAMSTERS General Secretary Treasurer, Ken Hall, has testified at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on self-driving technology, urging for the exemption of commercial...

THE indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, a move that threatens his 10-year grip on power, dominated the front page...

US SECRETARY of State John Kerry is to return to the Middle East later this week to resume efforts to draw Israel and the...

‘OUR MESSAGE to May and the Tories is: We are going to hound you out! Justice for Grenfell!’ Lucy Masood, FBU, said, to the...

RUSSIAN Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev spoke on Thursday about the situation surrounding Iran and Syria, and the United States. He said: ‘The US would...

THERE is uproar in the Communication Workers Union (CWU) over the Royal Mail drive to rip up members’ existing terms and conditions, and the...

The Young Socialists on Saturday launched its March for Jobs and Free State Education from Manchester to London. Bus workers came to welcome the young...

ONE hundred and fifty doctors, nurses, health campaigners and their supporters marched and rallied in London to defend the NHS on Thursday evening. The protest...

TRADE unions the GMB and the IWGB last Wednesday won crucial Court of Appeal decisions, agreed by both the Employment Tribunal and the Employment...

THE Irish trade union leaders are currently deciding whether to accept state control of their public sector trade unions, including control over wages,...

PRESIDENT Ahmadinejad has said that the West has ‘run out of ammo’ against Iran. He added that Iran will never accept commitments from Western countries...

THE MUA (Maritime Union of Australia) has thrown its support behind striking dockworkers in Canada this week. On Monday the MUA called on one of...

THE South African NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) has said it will march on the imminent meeting of the ANC National Executive Council, as...