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THE American viewing public got a stark warning from the billionaire Donald Trump during a recent TV interview when he announced that Americans should...

RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday he does not rule out sanctions against Iran but added that if used, they should be balanced and...

‘A CHINESE mining company is taking over plots of land in South Africa, paying residents small lump sums to give over mining rights to...

OVER 1,400 students at the University of Bristol are participating in an ongoing rent strike to protest against the University’s Covid-19 response. This constitutes...

HUNGARY’S Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto last Tuesday opened a trade office in Jerusalem City, in the central occupied West Bank, that will have an...

Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian family with stones as they were picking olives on their own land near the village of Rujib, to the...

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

Sarah Algherbawi The Electronic Intifada IN JIHAD ABU Jamous’ family, he was seen as the lucky one. The 31-year-old, who gathered gravel to sell...

IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says, despite all the pressure exerted on the Iranian nation by the United States – especially through the imposition of...

‘GENERAL PRACTICE – and the NHS as we know it – is in danger of disintegrating unless the Chancellor urgently increases investment in the...

IRAN is proud of the fact that the USA opposes its involvement in the coalition against the Islamic State, a senior Iranian MP has...

TAMIL NET reports that the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in its latest report has urged the International Community and the United Nations to...

‘ANYTHING can happen,’ says domestic worker Florence Sosiba. ‘I am sitting here in the house. A criminal can come. I am the victim. My...

SIXTY Unison nursing delegates gathered in Warwick last week for the ‘safe staffing forum’ in which the worforce crisis in the NHS was discussed....

HEALTH workers at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dala, Kano State, Nigeria, last Wednesday began an indefinite strike over non-payment of three months’ salary. The workers...

IRAN’S Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif suddenly arrived in the French city of Biarritz on Friday, where the G7 meeting of the seven top...

The US administration’s recent destructive and irresponsible moves threaten to plunge the entire region into chaos, violence and instability, Hanan Ashrawi, member of the...

ON the Israeli violations in al-Aqsa Mosque – statement from the Hamas movement. The leadership of Hamas held an urgent meeting on the ongoing dangerous...

‘THEY say in this country we’re free, but only some are free, others are not. A policeman has the power to kill and it’s...

RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave an interview to the BBC on 7 March, ahead of his visit to London to take part in...

‘THE Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) could not come up with an unbiased report on the alleged 2018 chemical attack in...

FOLLOWING national strikes on October 10, 2017 and March 22, 2018, this coming May 22 will be the third day of general strike in...

HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah affirmed on Sunday that the battle against terrorist organisations in Aleppo is decisive for the entire region just...

MONDAY’s Day of Action – a day when parents, students, educators and community leaders held events in more than 30 cities throughout America to...

PALESTINIAN prisoners in Israel struck on 10th September over the death of prisoner Ra’id al-Ja’bari which Fatah describes as an Israeli, ‘ugly crime’. ‘Isa Qaraqi,...

THE TRUMP administration has decided to cut more than $200 million in bilateral assistance to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip,...

America’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses has condemned the Obama Administration’s decision to impose a two-year wage freeze on Veterans Affairs...

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

SURVIVORS told a packed central London meeting on Wednesday evening of the violent Israel attacks on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and the unconcern of...

TEACHERS and parents at The John Roan secondary school in Greenwich are determined to defeat an academy order issued by the Tory government calling...

WORKERS from three separate government departments, some of them engaged in indefinite strike action, will hold a joint demonstration and march through central London...

‘BRINGING down the Tory government is the key thing,’ striking Uber driver Liban Yussuf told News Line at the lunchtime rally outside Uber HQ...

Unite, the UK’s largest construction union, announced on Monday a dramatic escalation in strike action as part of a long running dispute with private...

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...

BY PETER OBORNE & JAN-PETER WESTAD From Middle East Eye TERENCE English is a celebrated British surgeon. In 1979 he performed the first successful heart...

MORE than 60 Montreal municipal employees will be tried together on charges related to a 2014 protest that saw hundreds of union members storm...

THE United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that funding shortages have forced it to cut its food assistance for thousands of Syrian...

‘We are the 99 per cent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent,’ says...

THE CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions is ‘perturbed’ by the US’s Middle East Peace Plan. In a statement issued by COSATU national spokesperson Sizwe...

THE Russian envoy to Palestine, Haidar Aghann, affirmed that in Russia’s view, a comprehensive and just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies in ending...

SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, has called on the United Kingdom to recognise the State of Palestine on the...

TEACHERS in the UK work ‘some of the longest hours in the world’ a study of 35 countries in the world has found, with...

‘THE government’s priorities are simply wrong. They are wrong for education, wrong for teachers and wrong for children and young people,’ teachers union NUT...

THIS year’s World Teachers’ Day, which takes place every October 5th, marked the 50th anniversary of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the status of teachers,...

‘EVERYTHING related to the destiny and future of Syria is a 100% Syrian issue. The unity of Syrian territory is self-evident and not up...