by Staff Writer | Dec 31, 2023 | Briefing
TWO Christian protesters were arrested in Downing Street on Friday 29 December 2023 after pouring fake blood and putting bloody handprints on the gates in protest against the slaughter in Palestine. Virginia Moffat and Chris Cole, from Dorset, said that the UK...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 31, 2023 | Briefing
A UN report released on 28 December details the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, after 7 October 2023, and calls on Israel to end unlawful killings and settler violence against the Palestinian...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 30, 2023 | Briefing
THE Fire Brigades Union is calling on Keir Starmer to back financial support – alongside funding for health monitoring and prevention measures – for firefighters who have developed cancer and other diseases through their job. In a letter to the Labour leader, FBU...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 29, 2023 | Briefing
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION teams and their partners have undertaken high-risk missions to deliver supplies to hospitals in Northern and Southern Gaza witnessing intense hostilities in their vicinity, high patient loads and overcrowding caused by people displaced by the...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 28, 2023 | Briefing
NEW analysis of the top 20 costliest extreme climate disasters over 2023 has revealed a “global postcode lottery stacked against the poor” where the relative economic impact of disasters varies considerably across countries. The international development charity...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 27, 2023 | Briefing
TRAVELLING by train at Christmas costs more than three times as much as flying on average, according to a new analysis from Greenpeace. Researchers compared train and plane ticket prices on 22 popular routes in the UK and Europe and found that polluting flights were...
by Agency Reporter | Dec 26, 2023 | Briefing
THE agreement between the European Parliament and national governments in Europe on the reform of the European migration and asylum system will lead to blatant violations of children’s rights, endanger children on the move, and will lead to further separation of...
by Staff Writer | Dec 25, 2023 | Briefing
POPE FRANCIS gave his traditional message and blessing to the city and the world in front of pilgrims gathered in St Peter’s Square in Rome at noon today, Christmas Day. In his message, the Pope directly addressed the contrast and contradiction between the...
by Simon Barrow | Dec 24, 2023 | Commentary
THIS CHRISTMAS, in Palestine and Israel, in Sudan, in Ukraine and in other less publicised parts of the globe, darkness and violence seem overwhelming. In Bethlehem, traditionally the birthplace of Christ, seasonal celebrations have been cancelled in respect for the...
by Jill Segger | Dec 24, 2023 | Commentary
“A HARD TIME we had of it”. The gripe which TS Eliot put into the mouths of Persian astronomers, travelling during the dead of winter to search for a newborn in a distant land, seems to sum up much of the modern Christmas experience in our culture. This hard time...
