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An article published yesterday by Al Jazeera revealed that the UK has awarded new public contracts worth £10.7 million to firms with links to...

ISRAEL is building a network of roads and military outposts spanning nearly 90 kilometres of southern Lebanon, satellite imagery shows, while its forces keep...

QATAR said yesterday that both Washington and Tehran have responded positively to its mediation, a day after its prime minister held talks with US...

THE Israeli occupation forces (IOF) intensified their deadly violations of the ‘ceasefire agreement’ in the Gaza Strip on Friday, carrying out multiple demolition operations...

NEARLY two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, 94 per cent of the population, urgently need shelter assistance and essential non-food items. UNRWA said in...

HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth took part in marches across France yesterday as five unions joined strikes and protests in a National...

HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, school students and pensioners marched across France yesterday in a day of strikes over pay and public services. The Interior...

DEMOCRATS won control of the Senate and the House of Representatives in Tuesday’s midterm elections, ending Republican control of Congress for the last two...

THE midterm elections on Tuesday dealt a crushing blow to president Trump and the Republican party with the Democrats winning a majority in the...

POLICE arrested 25 people outside the Supreme Court yesterday as five justices began hearing Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori’s challenge to the group’s proscription...

AMERICANS voted yesterday in midterm elections deciding control of both houses of Congress, with President Donald Trump’s approval rating near a record low and...

EUROPE was engulfed on Saturday by a rising tide of demonstrations against brutal austerity and in opposition to the preparations by European governments for...

OVER 500 peaceful demonstrators joined in an act of defiance against the government’s attack on free speech and proscribing Palestinian Action as a terrorist...

A GLOBAL dockworkers’ strike involving 113 ports began yesterday in protest against military supply chains supporting Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Palestinians in the besieged...

MAJOR ports across the world plan to go on strike today to halt military shipments to war-torn regions, particularly cargoes that support the Israeli...

LABOUR chancellor John Healey opened his budget speech saying that the UK faced ‘global economic storms’ and that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)...

Yesterday, extreme right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro conceded defeat to Lula da Silva in the Brazilian presidential election. Bolsonaro had originally reacted to the defeat by claiming...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Monday issued a message of support for the worldwide day of action against war this...

ONE MILLION workers, students and youth demonstrated for decent public education and other services in towns and cities across France on Saturday. They came under...

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Limited (HPSEBL) employees, engineers and pensioners has urged the board management not to...

THE number of Palestinians displaced by Israel’s army in Hebron has reached at least 2,670, according to Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa’s office. The ‘majority’ of...

SENEGAL'S three-day general strike entered its second day on Thursday 22nd October with unions reporting widespread participation and increasing pressure on President Bassirou Diomaye...

TUNISIAN police fired tear gas at protesters in a suburb of the capital and in towns across Sfax governorate on Thursday, as anger over...

RAILWAY workers have started a week-long strike in Portugal, with the first two days of strike action having been held on Tuesday and Wednesday. Workers...

WITH just a week to go to the Budget official figures have confirmed that the National Debt has risen to more than £3 trillion...

OVER A HUNDRED striking porters, cleaners and catering staff at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust marched from St Thomas’ Hospital to Downing...

IRAN has called for the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting over the threats by the US and Israeli regime against the...

PROTESTERS clashed with police in Paris and other French cities on Saturday as over 800,000 people took to the streets, including students and trade...

US human rights organisations have called on members of Congress to intervene urgently and exert pressure to halt US support for Israel, following footage...

REEMA Asaad Awad, a 33-year-old mother, burned to death when an Israeli air strike set her family’s flat in Gaza City’s Rimal neighbourhood ablaze...

CENTRAL bankers and leading finance leaders from across the world gathered in Bangkok this week for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund...

MORE than 300,000 public sector workers across Ireland struck yesterday in a one-day stoppage over pay, shutting most schools, colleges and universities. Nurses, teachers, laboratory...

THE Israeli Ganot prison administration is still denying medical treatment to detainees from Gaza, especially those injured during a crackdown on October 7th, leaving...

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) made it clear yesterday that the Labour government must stop all this idle talk about ‘regeneration’ and ‘growth’ and...

SCHOOL and university students marched in cities across France yesterday in the fifth national day of action of their movement against understaffed, crumbling schools. Six...

HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, students, and teachers demonstrated in Belgium last Friday against the Belgian government’s austerity measures, in a day of action...

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) yesterday issued a blunt warning that Labour Chancellor John Healey’s budget, due on October 28, will be a...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had agreed a deal with Russian president Vladimir Putin for Russia to supply hundreds of...

MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched through London for Palestine on Saturday, marking the third anniversary of the 7th October 2023 launch...

ISRAELI forces escorted settlers into Al-Aqsa Mosque, detained nearly 100 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and killed a woman in Gaza on 7th...

UP TO 1,000 school support staff from Merton to Greenwich and Woolwich rallied outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday chanting ‘London Weighting Needs Inflating’. They...

NEW DELHI – Rahul Gandhi, India’s leader of the opposition, stood on a police barricade on Parliament Street on Tuesday 6 October, waving the...

Doctors who work in London are campaigning for an increase to the allowance they receive for living and working in the capital – which...

Dr Yasmeen Khamis Al-Bubu was not merely a new name added to the lists of war victims in the Gaza Strip, but a Palestinian...

SPAIN erupted on Saturday as thousands of workers and youth poured onto the streets of 50 cities demanding action triggered by the eviction of...