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‘OUR right to self-determination is inalienable. It is not tied to a timeframe’, Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Thursday said...

An IRGC official has issued a stern warning that Israel will face immediate reciprocal attacks on its nuclear centres if it targets Iran’s nuclear...

ISRAEL HAS intensified its military presence around Rafah, deploying additional troops and destroying agricultural land in the district’s eastern areas. This escalation comes amid heightened...

THE UN Security Council is to vote on Palestine’s UN membership application draft today, prepared by Algeria, recommending the state of Palestine’s admission as...

IRAN’S retaliatory strike against Israel, launched on Saturday, has provoked an outpouring of hypocrisy from the imperialist nations and their tame media outlets. How dare...

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...

MEMBERS of the UN Security Council have failed to reach a consensus on the Palestinian bid to become a full member state of the...

SPEAKING in Madrid yesterday, the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the recognition of a Palestinian state is ‘in Europe’s geopolitical interests’. The Spanish...

THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague held preliminary hearings on Monday on the case filed on 1st March by Nicaragua against...

ISRAELI air attacks throughout Gaza caused scores of Palestinian deaths yesterday, following the targeted assassination of al-Maghazi mayor Hatem al-Ghamri on Monday evening. The Government...

THE United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution calling for a halt to all arms sales to Israel, and for the regime...

IRAN’S President Ebrahim Raeisi says Operation Al-Aqsa Storm was a turning point in the history of the Palestinian cause. The region and the wider world,...

THE intensifying global condemnation of Israel’s fatal attack on international humanitarian workers in Gaza is putting immense strain on the British government’s unconditional backing...

THE UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories says the Israeli military has ‘intentionally killed’ the aid...

Workers at Barnes & Noble, the United States largest chain of bookstores, are gearing up for a nationwide union drive after six shops voted...

YESTERDAY, Israeli troops pulled out of Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, after two weeks of brutal attacks that left behind a...

IN TRAFALGAR Square, the chairwoman introduced the 11th national demonstration for Freedom and Justice for Palestine on Saturday 30 March, as of special significance...

In a landmark ruling at The Hague, judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have unanimously ordered Israel to take immediate and effective...

PRO-PALESTINIAN protesters have disrupted president Joe Biden’s campaign speech in North Carolina by chanting slogans and protesting against his support for the crimes of...

THE UN agency for Palestinian refugees yesterday issued the latest dire warning that time is running out for any chance of averting a catastrophic...

OVER ONE hundred British MPs have demanded an immediate cessation of the UK’s arms sales to Israel amidst the ongoing conflict in Gaza. This request...

UNITED Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese called on UN member states to impose an international arms embargo and sanctions on Israel yesterday afternoon. Speaking at...

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members on Monday finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the genocidal war being waged...

‘THIS MUST signal the end of atrocities against our people,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour said yesterday. He was speaking after the...

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

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that the United States has circulated a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani has condemned Israel’s brutal attack on the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City and the regime’s crimes against medical...

Workers at an Amazon air hub in Hebron, Kentucky celebrated a victory on Thursday after the National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) found that Amazon...

Continued from news story Organisers informed the rally that there were at least 450,000 on the march, that it was the 10th National March for...

HALF A MILLION workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through London on Saturday, assembling in Hyde Park and marching to the American Embassy...

South Africa’s largest local government trade union the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu), is set to table numerous demands for its members –...

THE UNITE union has described the decision of Coventry council to press ahead and fire and rehire its entire refuse collection workforce as totally...

TORY CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt has unveiled the contents of this year’s Budget in the House of Commons. It is the last scheduled Budget before...

TORY Chancellor Hunt delivered his class war Budget in the House of Commons yesterday, announcing that the Household Support Fund will be scrapped on...

THE HEZBOLLAH resistance movement has warned that any Israeli act of aggression against Lebanon will ignite an advanced version of the 33-day war fought...

THE LOCAL Government Association condemned Chancellor Hunt’s attempt to dress up his budget onslaught on public services as a ‘war on woke’ yesterday, pointing...

INDEPENDENT Senator Bernie Sanders has said that the United States cannot continue funding Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war machine as it presses ahead...

GLOBAL condemnation has poured in following a recent deadly attack by the Israeli occupation forces on Palestinian civilians seeking food aid in the besieged...

‘ISRAEL has been intentionally starving the Palestinian people in Gaza since October 8,’ the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri...

A TOTAL of 193 Palestinians were killed in 16 massacres perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces over the last 24 hours in the Gaza...

SOME 35,000 public and private sector workers and students took part in mass rallies and marches on Wednesday in central Athens as part of...

WITH the latest five days of strike action by junior doctors due to end tomorrow, the British Medical Association (BMA) has already set in...

WITH increasing numbers of babies and children now dying of starvation in Gaza, Dennis Francis, the president of the United Nations General Assembly, has...

MASS PICKETS of striking junior doctors take place today from 8am-11am outside St Thomas’ Hospital opposite Parliament in central London, Queen Elizabeth Hospital in...

A POWERFUL march of 500 protesters for Palestine marched through east London on Saturday, setting off from Mile End and marching to Aktab Ali...