International

THE 75TH anniversary of Hiroshima Day took place this week – on 6th August. Up to a quarter of a million people died as a result of two nuclear bombs which the US dropped on Japan in the Second World ...

THE DEATH TOLL is at least 100. The injuries are almost more horrific: an estimated 4,000 have needed hospital treatment, some in a critical condition. The health service, already struggling to cope with Coronavirus, is overwhelmed. Throughout the night, humanity ...

A HUGE explosion has occurred in Beirut, capital of Lebanon. Details are still emerging, but the explosion seems to have happened in the port area. It is thought that there may have initially been a fire, which was then followed ...

TOWER BRIDGE, 10pm, Saturday, 1st August. It’s an unexceptional Saturday night in lockdown-eased London: people going home, people going out; traffic at a crawl – and a crowd of Algerian football fans celebrating their heads off. It’s hard to piece ...

THE COURT OF APPEAL has today ruled that Shamima Begum should be permitted to return to the UK to contest the UK Government’s decision to revoke her British citizenship. The Government has responded to today’s Court of Appeal decision by ...

WHAT IS Boris up to now? He announced last week that the Department for International Development (DFID) is to be swallowed up in a mgerger with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Boris was supposed to be spending the week ...

LOCKDOWN has affected much of the world economy – but has it dented the onward march of the international arms trade? Start to find out by watching Shadow World, a feature length investigation into the darker side of capitalism. The ...

Despite the lockdown, the East London branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and the Jenin Friendship Association continue to work for liberation of the Palestinian people. The PSC is currently campaigning to persuade Local Government Pension Funds to take ...

RAMADAN IS traditionally, as we know, a time for family, friends and communities to come together. This year it will be different across the world, as so much of the world’s population is in lockdown. Or is it? While in ...

COUNTRIES ACROSS the Middle East are suffering in the Coronavirus pandemic – but Iran is arguably the worst hit.  Not only does the country have to fight the virus, it has to do so while struggling with the effects of ...