US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is facing growing criticism over his failure to condemn immediately the racist, fascist and white supremacist groups which went to Charlottesville to cause trouble over the weekend. Too little, too late, he has now made a ...
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Corbyn urges Tories not to take UK to war with Korea
DONALD TRUMP has been spending large parts of August getting mixed up about whether he is playing a macho video game or trying to run a country which is involved in most of the inter-state conflict in the world. It ...
Read More »One dead as car rams US anti-far right demo
ONE PERSON IS dead and 15 people were injured as a car rammed protestors who had gathered to show their opposition to a hard-right demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia this evening. Footage circulating on social media shows a car driving towards ...
Read More »Fighting the drought in Somaliland
ISLAMIC RELIEF is working to bring water to the population of Qoyta, a town in the Togdheer region of Somaliland. Climate change and global warming have led to the town suffering prolonged drought. Some 28,000 households are facing food insecurity ...
Read More »Charity invests in education in Syria
ISLAMIC RELIEF is appealing for donations to support its work in providing education in Syria. The charity has been supporting education since 2012, during which time it has helped thousands of children cling on to their education. Today, the charity ...
Read More »Yemen: the tragedy continues
IN YEMEN, a child under the age of five dies from preventable causes every ten minutes. This is the shocking statistic which drives the charity Human Appeal to push on with providing aid on the ground in this war-ravaged country. ...
Read More »India-UK Year of Culture
Hanna-Mariam Chowdhury THE INDIA-UK Year of Culture officially began on 28th February, with a launch at Buckingham Palace hosted by The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. Now the High Commission of India has formally marked the launch of this ...
Read More »Dagenham woman charged with war crimes
THE WOMAN arrested in East London on Thursday by officers from the Metropolitan Place War Crimes Unit appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court today, Saturday, 3rd June, to answer three charges of conspiring with others to allow physical torture and rape ...
Read More »Corbyn: act now to reduce the terror threat
JEREMY CORBYN is to set out a Labour foreign policy aimed at reducing the terror threat rather than fanning the flames of conflict. The Labour Leader will be speaking tomorrow morning (Friday, 26th May – his birthday) to Labour supporters ...
Read More »Taiwan OK for gay marriage headlines mixed news week
TWO SMALL STEPS towards gay rights have been taken in the last week – one in Asia, and one in London – while another report indicates that LGBT people are still subject to persecution. •Taiwan has laws which define marriage ...
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