Varadkar: EU will have stronger team in trade talks with UK
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has suggested the EU will be the “stronger team” in post-Brexit trade talks with the UK. Comparing negotiations to a football match, he suggested the EU would be at an advantage due to its larger population and market. The...
Rebecca Long-Bailey: It’s ‘B******s’ To Claim Voters Rejected Socialism
Rebecca Long-Bailey has said it is “bollocks” to claim voters don’t want socialism, despite Labour’s heavy election defeat. The shadow business secretary, who is a favourite to be the party’s next leader, also accused Labour MPs of deleting shadow cabinet files in an...
European Union Parliament to vote on scathing resolution against India
The European Union Parliament is set to debate and vote on a scathing resolution against India’s annexation of occupied Kashmir in clear violation….
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Church of England urged to apologise for Windrush racism
The Church of England should apologise for its “horrible and humiliating racism” towards people of the Windrush generation, many of whom were turned away from parish churches, and it should consider commissioning an independent report on institutional racism, a member...
‘When I found out how the prison had treated her, it was heartbreaking’
In September 2017, diabetic Annabella Landsberg was restrained in her cell by four officers after refusing to take her medication. Afterwards, she lay on the floor of her cell in the segregation unit at HMP Peterborough and refused to get up. Although staff...
Monday evening news briefing: Prince Harry holds private meeting with Boris Johnson
Prince Harry and Boris Johnson holds private meeting on Monday evening. The Duke of Sussex and Boris Johnson have had an informal “catch-up” chat behind closed doors.
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New Chinese virus ‘will have infected hundreds’
The number of people already infected by the mystery virus emerging in China is far greater than official figures suggest, scientists have told the BBC. There have been more than 60 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, but UK experts estimate a figure nearer 1,700....
Child refugees: peer refuses to drop fight to keep protections
Three Home Office ministers this week summoned the Labour peer campaigning for the rights of child refugees to a meeting to urge him to stop pushing for a key amendment to the EU withdrawal agreement bill. But Alf Dubs has refused to shift his position and...
BBC facing huge bill for equal pay cases after Samira Ahmed verdict
Samira Ahmed has won her equal pay claim against the BBC in a landmark case that lawyers say could leave the broadcaster facing a bill running into the millions for similar claims by other female staff. Ahmed, the presenter of viewer feedback programme...
Colleges Should All Stand Up to China
About five times a year, the U.S. military conducts freedom-of-navigation operations, or FONOPs, in the South China Sea to challenge China’s territorial claims in the area. American Navy vessels traverse through waters claimed by the Chinese government. This is...
Don’t Forget That Saudi Arabia Is Imprisoning and Torturing Women’s Rights Activist Loujain al-Hathloul
I DO NOT know her and have never met her. Yet, for some reason, every time I see her photo — every single time — my heart breaks. Perhaps it is her smile, brimming with hope and idealism, imbued with a youthful optimism. And knowing that that smile is gone, that...
A Japanese manga on China’s Uighur plight goes viral
A Japanese manga artist draws a comic based on the story of a young Uighur woman who was detained and tortured by Chinese authorties in a detention camp in Xinjiang, China. The artist’s comic went viral hours after its release, and has since been translated into...
Over 230,000 people flee Idlib in two-week Russian-backed offensive: U.N.
The United Nations said 235,000 civilians had fled their homes in rebel-held northwestern Syria during a Russian-backed campaign of air strikes and shelling this month. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the exodus had taken place...
‘World must boycott China’s 2022 Winter Olympics over Muslim Uyghur abuse’
China is forcefully collecting blood samples from hundreds of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, in an attempt that some say vie to justify and intensify racial profiling against the Muslim minority. Speaking to yenisafak.com in an exclusive interview, Uyghur activist...
Jamal Khashoggi: Saudis sentence five to death for journalist’s murder
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced five people to death and jailed three others over the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year. Khashoggi, a prominent critic of the Saudi government, was killed inside the kingdom’s consulate in the Turkish city...
Rohingya Youth Call on the International Community to Act at Landmark Conference
Rohingya Youth Call on the International Community to Act at Landmark Conference Young Rohingya people and other ethnic minority activists have come together at a landmark conference to demand justice and an end to human rights violations in Myanmar, the Burmese...
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