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Wall Street shares fell 2.4% when trading opened in New York yesterday, in the midst of the financial turmoil caused by the bankruptcy of...

FOR the first time, the High Court has blocked an attempt to force a comprehensive school to become an academy. Teachers union NASUWT said yesterday...

UNEMPLOYMENT in the UK rose by 28,000 in the last three months, to 2.67 million. Youth joblessness soared by another 16,000, with the...

‘ANY MP who votes for the Health and Social Care Bill next week is voting for the end of the NHS,’ said Christina McAnea,...

Quebec students and their supporters took to the streets of Montreal last Saturday and promised a summer full of demonstrations unless the dispute over...

THE GMB has accused BA of bad faith. Claims of ‘significant progress’ in a leaked letter from British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz mask...

‘HE broke the law. He engaged in an illegitimate war of aggression that history has condemned,’ former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter said yesterday,...

FOOD bank donations have soared 1,000% in response to the ‘utterly vile’ Mail on Sunday attack on food banks, a charity revealed yesterday. The Trussell...

Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser to US President Bush, was the first person UK ambassador to the US Christopher Meyer heard mention Iraq...

IN AN extraordinary admission yesterday P&O Ferries chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite admitted the firm knowingly broke the law, choosing not to consult with the...

‘FOUR months ago in this very hall the profession declared that General Practice is in a state of emergency,’ BMA GPs Committee (GPC) Chair...

‘LET IN THE TRUCKS’ United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) demanded yesterday. Adnan Abu Hasna, UNRWA’s media advisor, demanded that Israel...

‘A painful adjustment faces the global banking sector over the next few months as losses are revealed and new capital is raised to repair...

PRESIDENT Bashar al Assad has outlined to Lebanese visitors that he is seeking a ‘strategic response’ to the recent Israeli air strike on the...

UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, yesterday raised concerns over the consequences of introducing individual budgets outlined in yesterday’s ‘Primary and Community Care’...

TEACHERS and heads unions yesterday slammed a report by regulator Ofqual that claimed teachers ‘marked GCSE coursework too generously’ and this is why results...

FOOD prices are rising at their fastest rate for 45 years, with the cost of basics such as milk, cheese and eggs surging and...

BLAYDON Labour MP Dave Anderson has secured a parliamentary debate on behalf of the Shrewsbury 24 campaign this Thursday, 23 January, over the government’s...

EIGHTEEN months after the Grenfell Inferno over 600 people turned out on the Silent March for the Grenfell victims and survivors. A delegation...

‘YET another British government has engineered the repression of the truth behind the murder of my husband Pat Finucane.’ This was the response of Geraldine...

OVER 4,000 striking teachers and students marched through Athens city centre last Monday afternoon in a joyful mood sensing that they were winning the...

THE chairman of the BMA’s GP committee has warned that the Tory-LibDem government’s health plans will leave poor, elderly, infirm and terminally ill patients...

THE FIGHT for Justice for every single man, woman and child who died in the Grenfell Tower and their families and the survivors who...

‘Working people in the UK can help stop the Conservative-led coalition from taking a wrecking ball to the fabric of daily life’, say the...

‘Many remain in those torture chambers’, just-returned Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed said in a statement read out at a London press conference...

‘We are calling on thousands to pile on buses and trains and join us at Gleneagles today,’ G8 Alternatives movement spokesman Mike Arnott told...

FIONA GODLEE, editor of The BMJ, has written to Health Secretary Hunt, accusing him of misrepresenting an academic article on deaths of patients admitted...

INTERROGATION methods, including ‘dunking suspects in icy water’ and ‘smashing a prisoner’s head against a wall’ are included in a long-awaited US Senate report,...

Civil servants union PCS yesterday condemned the latest attack on the unemployed by the Cameron-favoured right-wing Policy Exchange think-tank. Following its latest study, the Policy...

CHANCELLOR Osborne oversaw the creation of a ‘Star Chamber’ yesterday, to force through the planned £60 billion a year spending cuts. Osborne told the...

‘A CEASEFIRE in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is at its closest point yet, with negotiations to bring the 15-month conflict to an end...

THE BMA has suspended next week’s 48-hour junior doctors strike. In a statement, the BMA said: ‘The decision comes as ACAS talks continue this week...

PCS CATERING workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark were in confident mood on the third...

‘I HAVE a very clear warning: last year was the worst for global growth since the crash and this year opens with a dangerous...

‘THE occupation is starving us,’ a young boy said yesterday, speaking alongside several dozen other young children who are among the 60,000 Palestinians who...

THOUSANDS of furious staff walked out of Further Education colleges across England from 7.00am this morning in a one-day strike to oppose a proposed...

Suffolk Fire Brigades Union Brigade Committee yesterday called for a national demonstration next Thursday, 11 August, in support of tomorrow and this Friday’s strike...

THE Israeli occupation army carried out hundreds of aerial and artillery attacks on different areas of Gaza yesterday, massacring men, women and children in...

‘I HAVE to be blunt with you, our recovery comes with a cost,’ Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the Tory Party conference yesterday outlining his...

ATHENS – Greek state officials delivered shocking reports on the treatment of immigrant children held in jails, at a meeting last Friday of the...

‘In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians,’ rang out at the mass demonstration of thousands of mainly young people opposite the...

‘The NHS should not be run in the same way as privatised industries such as water, gas, and telecommunications,’ the BMA said yesterday. The warning...

‘TELL the BA workers and every worker on the airport, we need their help again,’ Gate Gourmet striker Mrs P Samara told News Line...

A DEAL between the University College Union (UCU) leadership and University UK (UUK) has been thrown out and the lecturers strikes are back on! This...

OVER 150 UCL students went on rent strike yesterday against what is one of the most expensive student accommodations in the country. They are...