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FRENCH unions brought the transport system to a halt again yesterday on ‘Black Monday’ the day the French parliament, the Assemblée nationale, began debating...

THE United Nations General Assembly has passed a draft resolution demanding Israel withdraw from Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, and recognise...

SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan has welcomed the general ceasefire plan proposed by US president Joe Biden, saying it contained ‘positive ideas’. Hamdan reiterated his...

DOCTORS, nurses, trades unionists, workers and youth took part in protests at the entrances of many hospitals throughout Greece yesterday morning against the government’s...

OVERNIGHT and throughout yesterday morning, the Israeli military continued to pound parts of eastern Rafah city. The majority of residential homes and farmland have been...

THE ISRAELI regime has deployed its entire standing army infantry and armoured brigades to the Gaza Strip amid a serious escalation of its 19-month-old...

HAMAS says that since the ceasefire agreement came into effect last month, Israel ‘has not ceased its daily and continuous’ violations. According to the statement...

SEVERAL countries told the United Nations Security Council yesterday that they deeply deplore the Israeli parliament’s decision to abolish the operations of the UN...

Statement by the News LIne Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the poor of...

QATAR announced yesterday that the truce between Israel and Gaza has been extended for two days, with 20 Israeli captives to be handed over...

ISRAEL has established a ‘Population Relocation Unit’ to systematically map, surveil, and forcibly expel Palestinians from Gaza City through a campaign of leaflets, text...

‘THE Israeli occupation has completely destroyed the Jenin refugee camp and forcibly displaced over 20,000 Palestinian residents, leaving behind their homes, personal documents and...

THE UN Security Council committee has not reached a consensus on Palestine’s latest application for full United Nations membership, despite substantial support. Meeting in New...

FRENCH Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu ordered regular classes suspended yesterday and today so that headteachers could hold sessions with school students, after trade unions...

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas yesterday called on the UN Security Council to immediately stop the aggression against the Palestinian people, provide them with urgent international...

WASHINGTON – Russia and China exercised their veto power yesterday on a US draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council regarding Gaza. The draft...

‘WE WERE forced to bury them in a mass grave,’ al-Shifa Hospital Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya reported yesterday as he announced that 179 people,...

THE Nordic nations have voiced serious concerns over the withholding of Palestinian clearance revenues, further straining the already difficult fiscal situation of the Palestinian...

A General strike was held in Rahat City in southern Israel yesterday, against Israel’s rampant demolitions of Palestinian homes in Israel. Israeli bulldozers demolished two...

The decision to suspend aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency by several Western countries is a ‘collective punishment’, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said...

IN the midst of catastrophic humanitarian suffering for more than two million Palestinians – half of them children, the Israeli occupation army continued, for...

WORKERS took to the streets in cities across the world yesterday to mark International Workers Day, with trade unions warning that the US-Israeli war...

FOREIGN doctors volunteering in Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals have shared distressing accounts of the dire medical situation and war crimes they’ve witnessed. With 80% of the...

A NEW government, seen as the most right wing and racist in Israel’s history has been agreed, sealing Binyamin Netanyahu’s return to power. Netanyahu, who...

Israeli forces targeted a school in Khan Younis that was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians, critically injuring at least eight people yesterday. ‘We heard from...

SEVERAL thousand Greek university students marched victoriously and defiantly on Monday night in Athens after they had forced the armed riot police ‘storm-troopers’ off...

THE Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, is facing extensive urban destruction by Israeli firepower and forced displacement of its residents. The Israeli military...

CHINA has celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding with a massive military parade in Beijing showing off some of the world’s most advanced...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the ‘imminent’ threat of Russian military action in Ukraine justifies evacuating the US embassy in Kiev. His...

ISRAELI forces carried out a new massacre yesterday as they bombed the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees) school in...

BEIJING says it will take ‘all necessary measures’ to protect its interests as the US steps up efforts to isolate Tehran. China has denounced the...

AS the united Nations officially confirmed that the Israeli war on Gaza is a ‘GENOCIDE’ yesterday, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) massively escalated their...

GREEK transport unions laid the blame for the country’s ‘worst ever’ rail crash directly at the door of government cuts yesterday, as they demanded...

MILLIONS of youth supported by trade unionists walked out of their schools, colleges and universities yesterday, in one hundred and fifty countries across the...

A JURY at the Old Bailey has been discharged after failing to reach verdicts on any charge against seven Palestine Action activists accused of...

‘WE have the right to attack anywhere in Israel, since Israel has attacked anywhere in Lebanon,’ Hezbollah Deputy Leader Naim Qassem said in a...

THE Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued to carry out intensive deadly strikes targeting civilians in different areas of the Gaza Strip, mainly in Gaza...

THE Ukrainian army’s continued bombardment of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is destructive, dangerous and even suicidal, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova...

Israel has approved the establishment of 22 new illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision was reportedly taken in a closed-door vote by...

ISRAEL is violating the terms of the ceasefire by not allowing the agreed minimum amount of aid to enter the enclave, Gaza’s Government Media...

HUMAN Rights Watch has accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, with US President Joe Biden’s administration criticised for...

ISRAELI forces detained at least seven Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank overnight, including a mother and her 14-year-old child. Local and security...

‘WE need a national strike to win this now,’ striking Birmingham binworker Dean Harris, Unite Rep at the Atlas refuse site picket line told...

PALESTINIAN political factions have reacted with fury to the first official visit by an Israeli delegation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to finalise...

THE US veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding a humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip is unjustifiable, says Zhang Jun, China’s...