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Prime Minister Brown, flanked by Chancellor Darling, told a press conference yesterday that, ‘the changes I have announced in the cabinet and in the...

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair, who presided over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes and supported the right of police to shoot to...

‘The defining moment for the International Community (IC) is right now, if it really wishes to establish its commitment to a principled approach towards...

REPUBLICAN representatives walked out of the crisis talks with President Bush on Thursday night, denouncing him as a socialist for launching his $700 bn...

TAMILNET reports that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil eelam (LTTE) clashed last Thursday at around 2.00 am...

More than 800 postal workers from across the country marched on the Labour Party conference in Manchester on Monday. They were joined by disabled Remploy...

MORE than 800 postal workers from all parts of the country, from Plymouth to Scotland, marched on the Labour Party conference in Manchester yesterday...

‘Today is the first day of the process which will hopefully bring my family closer to the truth,’ cousin of Jean Charles De Menezes,...

OUTGOING Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the dream of a ‘greater Israel’ was over, a day after settlers raided the Palestinian village of...

ON 22nd July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent member of the public, was killed by Metropolitan Police officers in a grotesque and...

SOUTH Africa’s trade union federation COSATU has said the deal signed on Monday by Zimbabwe’s political rivals ‘marks a dangerous spread of the Kenyan...

The inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes will begin next Monday 22nd September at 10am at the Oval Cricket Ground, The...

QUEUES formed around the Singapore offices of an AIG subsidiary yesterday, as the world’s biggest insurance company collapsed, losing 70% of its share price. At...

SHARE price collapses continued yesterday after the bankrupting of the fourth largest US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, and the ‘rescue’ of Merrill Lynch by...

THE Cheltenham-based electronic spying agency, GCHQ, recorded mobile phone exchanges between the Omagh bombers on the day of the attack in 1998. The...

‘FORCE this British government to carry out the rightful decision to return us back to our beautiful islands and put an end to these...

TUC Delegates passed Motion Seven on EU Attacks on Trade Union Rights yesterday, which the TUC General Council supported with reservations. The Fire...

‘FORCE this British government to carry out the rightful decision to return us back to our beautiful islands and put an end to these...

THE number of civilian deaths admitted to by US and NATO forces as a result of airstrikes in Afghanistan is just the tip...

THE TUC Congress in Brighton was divided yesterday over an amendment to Composite Motion 15: Public Sector Pay, which called on the General Council...

EARLIER this week the News Line stated that it would not be enough to adopt a programme at the current TUC Congress, but that...

THE trial of 49 trade unionists before an emergency court, for alleged involvement in the violent protests of 6 April 2008 in the Egyptian...

CIVIL service union PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday announced that the union will be balloting 270,000 members across the civil and public services...

The Prison Officers Association is calling for a series of one-day general strikes to force the repeal of the anti-union laws. Its motion on Trade...

Amnesty International has called on the British government to hand over to Guantanamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohammed’s lawyers, vital information it holds on him. Binyam...

THE Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which has been closed for the past five months, was opened for two days at...

Unidentified armed men arriving on a motorcycle hurled a hand grenade on Friday around 5:30am on the house of a Muslim teacher in Ea’raavoor...

After shattering the Israeli blockade of Gaza earlier this week, the SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty victoriously departed Gaza for Cyprus at 2.00pm...

A damning report, the second in seven days on the British government’s practice of incarcerating children in UK removal centres was published yesterday. Excerpts follow...

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers in their sentry post along Jaffna lagoon found a male corpse with gun shot wounds washed ashore on...

TribAL leaders in southern Iraq accused the US Administration last week of attempting to establish permanent bases in Iraq to strike against its opposing...

‘All of us are shocked, numb, totally gutted,’ said an angry Samantha Rigg-David outside Brixton police station on Saturday following the death in custody...

Yesterday’s High Court ‘torture verdict strongly condemned the UK government for complicity in US crimes’, said legal charity Reprieve. Lord Justice Thomas and Justice...

THE BOURGEOIS law courts damned the Brown government yesterday for its role as an accessory to the US and its torturers. The government was told...

Undeterred by sackings, harassment, violence and hardship, members of the Pearl Continental Karachi Hotel Workers Union are more determined than ever to fight until...

By John Coulter, Irish political journalist Religious sectarianism is alive and well and breeding viciously again in the North. As the North this month commemorated the...

THE former military dictator of Pakistan, Musharraf who came to power by a military coup in 1999, and was the main ally in the...

The Prime Minister of the Hamas-led government in Gaza, Ismail Haniya on Friday called on Egypt and Saudi Arabia to move swiftly and open...

The Brown government was yesterday accused of building up a national DNA database ‘by stealth’ by retaining profiles of nearly 40,000 children never...

TAMILNET reports that a fire at Poonthoaddam Refugee Camp in Vavuniyaa town last Wednesday destroyed 80 temporary sheds of internally displaced families. No...

MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has had his passport returned to him as have other Zimbabwe Opposition officials. The documents were taken off them at Harare...

TAMILNET reports that on Saturday Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombers attacked a populated village, known as ‘Redd Barna’ settlement, in Visuvamadu after targeting...

THE correct intervention of the Russian army to defend the people of South Ossetia against the onslaught of the Georgian army has initially been...

GEORGIA’S latest actions are aimed at ousting Russian peacekeepers from South Ossetia and bringing a NATO police force there, Col-Gen Leonid Ivashov, former chief...

The Jewish settler pogrom against Palestinians must be stopped now, says Khalid Amayreh. He writes: ‘Nazi-like Jewish settlers have of late stepped up their...