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ANNA Liedtke, a 25-year-old German activist who sailed on a Gaza-bound flotilla, has filed a criminal complaint in Israel alleging she was raped by...

JUST days before Andy Burnham is installed as PM on Monday, amid much speculation and lobbying about the future policies and the personnel of...

BRITAIN'S biggest water firm, Thames Water, has just awarded its chief executive Chris Weston a pay rise that has pushed his salary to £1.16...

BRITISH Steel has formally been taken into public ownership, fifteen months after the government intervened to prevent the closure of its Scunthorpe steelworks and...

IRAN threatened to block further trading routes in the Strait of Hormuz region yesterday as the US launched a fresh wave of strikes on...

AN increasingly desperate US president Donald Trump authorised a wave of strikes against civilian infrastructure in southwestern Iran on Wednesday. These latest attacks followed overnight...

LOSSES in the Gaza Strip’s agricultural sector because of the the vast destruction caused by the Israeli war of genocide, have now reached some...

This month marks the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Revolution that erupted on July 18  1936 between Spanish workers, youth and...

THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched retaliatory missile and drone strikes on US military bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait on Sunday night,...

A CROWDof more than 100 doctors, campaigners and supporters handed a petition of 2,000 signatories, to the British Royal College of Paediatricians and Child...

SENIOR Hamas official Abdul-Rahman Shadeed has condemned Saturday’s settler attacks in al-Mughayir village east of Ramallah and other West Bank areas, describing them as...

AMID all the furious propaganda about an imminent Russian invasion of the EU and the drive to rearm NATO for war, the defence policy...

INTERNATIONAL alarm over Israel’s genocide in Gaza heightened this week after the killing of a widely known Palestinian aid worker in an Israeli air...

BRITAIN’S main sickness benefit is ‘not fit for purpose’ and ‘deters people from taking up work’ a Labour government review has found. A report by...

A CROWD of over 300 people attended a rally opposite 10 Downing Street yesterday evening to call for the immediate release of Dr Hussam...

Euro-Med, the Geneva-based independent Human Rights Monitor, issued a press release on Monday condemning the Israeli regime for turning the Gaza Strip into a...

THE GUARDIAN newspaper on Sunday reported in an exclusive analysis of the extent of private equity companies takeover of UK public services found that...

250 years ago on July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was formally adopted by the Second Continental Congress marking the revolutionary surge that...

THE Palestine Scholars Association (PSA) has warned that the Israeli occupation regime has transitioned from targeting the Palestinian people and their land to a...

CUTS to infrastructure projects like roads and school repairs threaten 10,000 UK jobs following outgoing PM Keir Starmer’s decision to cut billions of pounds...

KEIR Starmer’s decision to cut billions of pounds of infrastructure spending to fund new military equipment will cost the UK around 10,000 jobs, according...

THE NHS will have to divert almost 45 billion pounds from frontline services to pay for costlier medicines under the UK-US trade deal struck...

THE UK-US trade deal will mean the NHS has to divert billions from other NHS services to pay more for new medicines. Around £45bn in...

British families have experienced the biggest fall in wealth since the pandemic, according to yesterday’s report from banking group UBS. According to UBS, the average...

Millions of households across the UK will be pushed into fuel poverty as energy bills for the average family rise by over £220 a...

Keir Starmer announced an additional £15bn in the defence investment plan which was published yesterday, and showed that UK defence spending will be £80bn...

OUSTED Labour prime minister Keir Starmer made his legacy pitch yesterday when he unveiled plans to increase spending on the UK armed forces by...

LABOUR’S Andy Burnham, who is set to replace Keir Starmer as Prime Minister in three weeks, pledged to cut welfare and boost military spending,...

THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS), known internationally as the ‘central bank for central banks’, issued an apocalyptic warning on Sunday that the global...

THE FALL in early-career clinical academic numbers shows severe structural crisis, warns the British Medical Association. The doctors’ union was responding to the results of...

THE Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has called on Iran’s Judiciary to pursue and restore the nation’s rights that have...

FEATURE BY FATEMEH SAHRANESHIN MY NAME is Fatemeh Sahraneshin. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing and a Master’s degree in Health Economics. I am...

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says only Iran is in charge of reopening the Strait of Hormuz under the Tehran-Washington Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), warning...

A LARGE and vocal crowd gathered in the lobby opposite the Old Bailey yesterday in support of the Filton 8, whose trial is under...

A PALESTINE Action lawyer faces renewed contempt proceedings. The Judge rules to refer Rajiv Menon KC once again over his closing speech in the...

ELON MUSK, the world’s first dollar trillionaire, set another record this week when he became the biggest ever loser of personal wealth on record. Musk’s...

FIREFIGHTERS in Kent are considering strike action against threatened mass sackings of 76 firefighters and the closure of five fire stations by the newly-elected...

BY NILLY BROOK THE National Security (State Threats) Bill was rushed through parliament on Wednesday, advancing authoritarianism at home and signalling greater violence abroad. Offences related...

THE Labour government is considering a plan to impose state regulation of journalists and newspapers! Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has published preliminary proposals that would...

BY MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE ‘AFTER fifty days of permanent mobilisations and blockades, the Indigenous and popular movement, which is demanding the resignation of US-backed President...

YESTERDAY morning Keir Starmer announced his resignation as prime minister and leader of the Labour Party in a speech that consisted of him listing...

KEIR STARMER stood outside 10 Downing St at 9.30 yesterday morning and announced he is quitting as Labour Party leader. He said that Labour’s governing...

A MOTION to be heard tomorrow at the BMA annual conference in Brighton challenges the crackdown ordered by the Labour government against any doctors...

VOTERS in Thursday’s Makerfield by-election elected Labour’s Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, with a majority of 9,231 (55 per cent), doubling Labour’s previous...

ON WEDNESDAY night, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Iran and the US was formally signed by both US president Donald Trump and Iranian...