“That a Holocaust survivor is called in by police for the alleged offence of carrying a bunch of flowers into Trafalgar Square underlines the unjustifiable extremes to which the Metropolitan Police ...

CAMPAIGNERS and trade unionists have called on the Scottish government to halt ScotRail’s proposed cuts to up to 100 ticket ...

A COUNCIL has threatened nearly 1,000 staff with fire and rehire, GMB union said today. Devon County Council reportedly gave ...

Hamas has accused Israel of trying to sabotage the existing agreement, which called for the two sides to negotiate the return of the remaining hostages in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners, a ...

Weapons and fighter jet manufacturer BAE Systems, a key provider of components to Israel, saw its shares surge by a record 19 ...

THE selection of a general secretary for the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) may have to be relaunched after the trade union certification officer said that the election was “not conducted in accordance” ...

THE leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) stood firm yesterday in refusing to hold direct talks with the ...

PLANS to ban new leasehold flats may hinder the government’s 1.5 million new homes target, the Communist Party’s housing expert Lorraine Douglas has warned. Housing minister Matthew Pennycook hailed ...

CHINA’S top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, will open its annual session today in Beijing. The Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square will host ...

BRITAIN must “prepare for peace not more war,” communists have warned amid government plans to increase military spending through “draconian cuts” to public services and welfare.

SURVIVORS of the atomic bomb have urged Japan to attend a United Nations conference on a treaty banning nuclear weapons, ...

AUSTRIA’S new government took office today, with Christian Stocker appointed chancellor at the head of a previously untried ...