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PALESTINIAN Premier Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday called for international intervention to secure the release of a dying hunger-striking prisoner. He told the weekly cabinet session in...

‘THERE is absolutely no question of the lights going out,’ Kwasi Kwarteng, Tory business secretary claimed yesterday He was making a statement after a number...

PRIME Minister Boris Johnson spent less than five minutes apologising over ‘Partygate’ to the House of Commons yesterday, before putting it to one side. He...

‘WE ARE on the verge of conflict which would involve the whole continent,’ Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said yesterday at a joint press conference...

THE biggest strike of the summer so far continues today, as 115,000 postal workers fight for a  ‘dignified, proper pay rise’. Royal Mail Group members...

SUPPORTING calls for a general strike, leading Labour MP John McDonnell said he supports ‘co-ordinated action’. He also condemned Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer...

ISRAELI special forces killed three Palestinians and arrested another in the city of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank yesterday....

THE NHS is in danger of being overwhelmed by a surge of both Covid-19 and non-Covid cases, a new British Medical Association (BMA) survey...

ISRAELI forces intensified their campaign of repression across occupied Palestine on Thursday, carrying out violent raids and arbitrary arrests in the West Bank, while...

‘A MASSACRE with the full meaning of the word,’ took place in Gaza City’s Shujayea district yesterday, when Israel carried out an attack that...

TORY Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that UK troops are to be sent to the Ukraine ‘to train Zelensky’s military on the ground’...

THE LABOUR government’s so-called refreshed NHS Workforce Plan, which essentially is to keep patients out of hospital and treat them in the community instead,...

AS THE murder trial of officer Derek Chauvin continued for the killing of George Floyd, anger erupted outside the Court House where masses of...

IN A MAJOR police state move, 29 demonstrators were arrested in London at a protest in support of Palestine Action on Saturday, the day...

HAMAS has warned Israel against attacking the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz yesterday indicated his support...

AN independent panel has accused the Metropolitan Police of ‘a form of institutional corruption’ for concealing or denying failings over the unsolved murder of...

THERE was a lively and determined picket of members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) King’s College Hospital in Camberwell, south east London on...

AROUND 20 unemployed workers are chasing every job vacancy in poorer parts of the UK, with that number rising to 50 in the areas...

THE GRENFELL INQUIRY HAS BEEN HALTED! Hearings have been cancelled until the charman of the inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick considers a demand from lawyers representing...

THE TORY government is imposing a new legal duty to ‘self-isolate’ if instructed to do so by ‘NHS Test and Trace’ from next Monday,...

NINE out of ten UK A&E clinicians are not confident that their departments will cope this winter. Shockingly, in a survey by The Royal College...

HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel yesterday warned that the city of Leicester may be facing a localised lockdown after a rise in coronavirus cases. She said...

UNIONS representing teachers and school leaders in England are united in calling on the School Teachers’ Review Body to make urgent recommendations on pay,...

‘NATIONALISE all the energy giants,’ the Unite union demanded yesterday after BP announced enormous July-September profits of £7.1 billion, more than double the profit...

STUDENTS and university staff are furious after the Tory government inst-ructed them to remain in their student halls and not to return home before...

ANDY MALKINSON, 57, a man who was wrongfully convicted and jailed for rape, has shockingly revealed that he may be required to pay thousands...

RESPONDING to yesterday’s recommendation from the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) and the government’s acceptance of that recommendation, the BMA says...

QUADCOPTER drones equipped with loudspeakers instructed Palestinian families trapped inside a UN-run school in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to flee yesterday,...

‘I WANT someone tried and jailed like I was, then I am settled,’ Harjinder Butoy, who ran the Post Office in the Nottinghamshire market...

Starmer has announced hurried alterations to the Labour welfare bill after more than 120 Labour MPs signalled their intention to vote against it, threatening...

A DANGEROUS phone triage scheme for A&E at Wales’ largest hospital is to be launched tomorrow in which patients are expected to ring before...

RUSSIAN and Ukrainian negotiators began a fourth round of talks yesterday. Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak said the talks focused on establishing a ceasefire, the withdrawal...

  US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Saturday called for one-and-a-half million Palestinians to be deported to Egypt and Jordan. Describing Gaza as a ‘demolition site’, Trump...

TORY Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the new White Paper in Parliament yesterday pushing a complete reorganisation of the NHS, breaking...

BRITAIN will face further tax increases within months after Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement left the economy precariously balanced, according to the Office for...

‘HUMILIATING, painful, depressing,’ says a new report released yesterday by homeless charity Crisis, highlighting the brutal realities of ‘sofa surfing’. The research shows that with...

FRANCE was totally paralysed yesterday with flights, trains, the Metro and buses all cancelled during the mass ‘Day of Rage’ over President Emmanuel Macron’s...

GENERAL Practitioners (GPs) across England have voted overwhelmingly to reject the new 2024/25 national GP General Medical Services (GMS) contract that was imposed on...

THE JOHNSON government is to pay out tens of millions of pounds to restart production of carbon dioxide at a key plant in the...

SEVERAL hundreds of secondary schools throughout Greece remain shut as school students refused to attend classes considering the Covid-19 government guidelines to be ineffective. Last...

‘THE damage that you’re doing to families like mine is terrible,’ the mother of a sick three-year-old girl told Tory Health Secretary Stephen Barclay...

THE latest NHS workforce data is ‘not something the government should be proud of’, says the BMA. Responding to the latest NHS workforce data BMA...

FOOD costs and energy bills are soaring, with the energy crisis driving consumer prices up at the fastest rate in 30 years, latest figures...

GP SURGERIES will start receiving referrals from A&E departments under a new set of measures proposed by NHS England which were announced yesterday. The plans,...

ON THURSDAY, Israeli authorities released 64 detainees from Gaza. Among the released were two women from Gaza, detained while accompanying patients in Israel. Of...