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PATIENT confidentiality will be violated and open to abuse, Unite union said in response to plans to allow high street pharmacies like Boots,...

US Senator Bernie Sanders announced yesterday that he will run again for president in 2020, making a second attempt to win the Democratic Party’s...

SLEEP-deprived junior doctors, subjected to an ever increasing heavy workload, are losing out on vital training and this, in turn, is impacting patient care,...

Civil rights organisation Liberty welcomed yesterday’s Law Lords ruling in favour of anti-war protesters who police stopped from travelling to a protest at RAF...

THE Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Labour Party right wing and against Labour Party democracy yesterday afternoon, when it banned...

An enormous rally of youth and workers with their families at the Vouli (Greek parliament) square in Athens on Sunday demanded for the fifth...

RUSSIA will finish the demilitarisation of Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview yesterday, underlining that the Ukraine must stick to a...

TORY changes to the NHS were ‘opposed by patients, the public and NHS staff, but politicians pushed through the changes regardless’ Dr Mark Porter,...

‘Sending lay first aiders could be dangerous and in some cases risk lives,’ Michael Summers, chairman of the Patients Association told News Line yesterday. He...

HUNDREDS of protesters took part in a rally at Wells & South Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago in the United States yesterday, in protest...

THREE Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges over their expenses, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer announced yesterday. MPs Elliot...

THE GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said yesterday that plots to force a massive devaluation of Iran’s national currency to ruin...

GAMBLING with people’s lives, the new Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid made a statement on removing Covid-19 restrictions yesterday. He told Parliament: ‘We...

TENS of thousands of Greek university and school students, along with teachers and universities’ staff, participated in protest marches in all major cities against...

THE privately-run Hinchinbrooke Healthcare Trust in Cambridgeshire has imposed a jobs freeze after making a £2.3m loss in the three months to the end...

TAMILNET reports that the Sri Lankan army is massacring Tamil civilians in heavy fighting in the North of the island. Initial...

ALMOST 300 GP practices are facing closure, a new BMA survey released today has warned. The crisis in general practice is set to worsen according...

TERRORISTS based in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta have imposed a curfew during humanitarian pauses to prevent civilians from leaving the enclave, the...

THE indefinite strike of Greek state nursery and primary school teachers, who are demanding higher salaries, is continuing. The leader of their umbrella organisation,...

RIOT police fired rubber bullets Wednesday at Spanish coal miners protesting in the streets of Madrid, along with tens of thousands of other workers. Hundreds...

‘It was a night of terror, we were terrified, we thought we were going to burn to death,’ said 27-year-old Fadia Al-Najjar from Khaza’a...

Libyan Foreign minister Moussa Koussa yesterday announced: ‘My country will do its best to deal positively with this resolution’, in the wake of Thursday...

SWINDON residents turned out in their thousands on Saturday’s march to save the Honda car factory and stop its closure. There were 6,000 on the...

HEEDING the calls by political factions, mainly President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, thousands of Palestinians rallied in several West Bank city centres to protest...

Prime Minister Blair has once again refused to apologise for the police raid and shooting of an innocent man in Forest Gate, as he...

NINETY Birmingham bin strikers came down on a double-decker bus to London to a Unite union rally outside Parliament yesterday afternoon. Strike leader Mike Masters...

MUSIC, languages, drama, PE, design technology and art, as well as vocational subjects including engineering, construction, and childcare, have all being axed from secondary...

OVER 2,000 FE lecturers, staff and students marched through central London yesterday demanding fair funding for colleges. They demanded fair pay for FE lecturers,...

THE GMB has warned that 200,000 jobs will be cut by councils in England in the next three months. GMB national officer...

‘OUR NHS is in distress’, Royal College of GPs (RCGP) Chair Dr Clare Gerada has warned. Addressing nearly 2,000 GPs and health professionals at the...

TORY PM Cameron and ex-TUC leader Brendan Barber have ‘put their differences aside’ and joined forces to write a joint article published in...

ELEVEN colleges launched three days of strike action yesterday morning after rejecting a 1% pay offer which, when inflation is taken into account, is...

THE RMT has announced strike action against two of the country’s rail privateers – a 48-hour strike on Virgin Trains East Coast and a...

ORGANISERS of the international ‘Flotilla of Resilience’ announced Thursday afternoon that the Israeli navy intercepted 40 out of 44 boats carrying activists and humanitarian...

‘WE’RE striking to defend the NHS,’ doctors said on the over 200-strong rally of junior doctors outside University College Hospital in central London yesterday. There...

THE Assistant UN Secretary-General, Khaled Khiari, has urged the international community to categorically reject any Israeli moves to establish settlements in the Gaza Strip...

Three more US marines were killed in western Iraq on Monday, the US military confirmed yesterday. All three, from the 2nd Marine Division, were taking...

POSTAL workers in Royal Mail yesterday voted by 4 to 1 (78%) in favour of strike action in a move to protect their jobs,...

PM TRUSS is determined to remove a cap on bankers’ bonuses as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of City rules, to really get the...

THE TORIES have allowed train companies to ‘play the system’ collecting more than £1.3bn from the taxpayer for delayed services and passing only a...

DRIVERS employed by the RATP bus privateer begin strike action today against £2,500 pay cuts, with 2,200 workers striking at Edgware, Epsom, Fulwell, Harrow,...

Former Prime Minister Blair and his war cabinet should be put on trial for war crimes, said the parents of soldiers killed in the...

RUSSIA and Turkey have reached an agreement on a proposal for a nationwide ceasefire in Syria from midnight, Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency...

‘IT is more important for them to save money than save lives!’ Halla Kim, RCN member and nurse at Ealing Hospital declared yesterday morning...