International

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 ...

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 ...

THE WORLD FOOD Programme has calculated that half the population of Gaza does not have enough to eat. One important source of food for the people in Gaza is fish – but the fishermen of Gaza are not free to ...

THE UK CHARITY Islamic Relief has been shortlisted by The Charity Awards for an award in its international aid and development category. The nominated programme is the charity’s project to tackle climate change in Bangladesh. Islamic Relief is spending £1 ...

WHILE THE international news media focus on the fighting in Syria, news about the suffering in Yemen is beginning to seep out. Back in March, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that over 62,000 people had been ...

LIFE DOESN’T STOP just because there is a war on – but sometimes it does get put on hold for a while. Children in Mosul have been in danger because of the fighting going on around them, but for some ...

THE ELECTION OF Donald Trump as US President was never going to make the world a safer place. Nonetheless, even his harshest critics did not think that it would all go wrong so soon. Two things have happened. •First, on 4th ...

AS 58 SYRIAN citizens lie dead, Human Rights monitors have accused the Syrian regime of using chemical weapons against its own people – not for the first time. Rebel forces fighting the Government have also been accused of using chemical ...

REPORTS ARE emerging from Mosul that chemical weapons have been used on the civilian population for the first time since Syria’s civil war began. The city is divided by the river Tigris. Government forces on the east side of the ...

THE LAST DAYS OF US President Obama’s term of office have seen a sudden push to get peace talks re-started between the state of Israel and displaced Palestinians. Don’t hold your breath. Just before Christmas, the United Nations (UN) passed a ...