An Israeli soldier who survived the Palestinian raid on 7 October 2023 told reporters, on camera, that he and all the troops in the area of the fence between southern Israel and Gaza were ordered, early on the morning of 7 October, to stay in their posts and not to patrol the fence for sev...
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez announced on that his country will send a warship from the port of Cartagena in southeastern Spain to support the international Global Sumud Flotilla heading to the Gaza Strip with the aim of breaking the Israeli blockade. Spain to send a warship to pro...
The Israeli occupation indefinitely closed the Allenby Bridge border crossing – also called King Hussein Bridge or Karama Crossing – on Wednesday morning, 24 September, marking a significant heightening of tensions in the West Bank. Although it has been announced that passenger traffic wil...
Energy secretary Ed Miliband is reportedly looking for ways to to permit new drilling for North Sea oil and gas. The news comes in spite of Labour campaign pledges to grant no new licenses for new fields. New oil from old fields under Ed Miliband? The new plans for the North Sea will be an...
Israeli occupation prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent flight to New York- where he will attend the UN General Assembly on Friday, and will visit Trump on Monday, for the fourth time – took a highly unusual route, avoiding the airspace of certain European countries due to an outstan...
Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of France, was today convicted of criminal conspiracy by the Paris criminal court. He was sentenced to five years in jail. The verdict means Sarkozy will now do time in jail regardless of the success of his intended appeal. However, on the additional char...
New Green Party leader Zack Polanski has made it clear that he will work with Your Party and “anyone who wants to build a progressive politics” with the aim of “getting rid of this Labour government and stopping Reform”. Zack Polanski: we can work together Speaking to the Canary, Zack Pola...
It’s rumoured that Andy Burnham is planning to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership. While Burnham hasn’t announced anything official, he has discussed his ‘plan for Britain’, and now Labour’s Clive Lewis has hinted he’d support such a plan. Andy Burnham hard launches his philo...
Laurence Fox is having a spat with Free Speech Union because they won’t support his legal defence. If you don’t know what that is, the union describes itself as a “non-partisan, not-for-profit membership organisation that stands up for people whose right to freedom of expression has been v...
Zarah Sultana delivered a fiery speech to a rapturous response from hundreds of people at a Sheffield Trades Union Council meeting. Sultana received several standing ovations from the crowd, and appeared overcome at the support from Sheffield. Given the tumult from Your Party over the past...
