Yet again the Israel-Palestinian conflict has thrown out a challenge to the world. How to respond to what appears to have been a heavy-handed storming of the Gaza aid convoy by Israeli commandos? Not for the first time, the UN has...

Colombia is the most dangerous country in the world to be a trade unionist, but the Colombian Government denies this. The European Union has been negotiating a trade deal with Colombia for several months, in a move which will be seen...

Candlelight vigil for commemoration of the Tiananmen Massacre Time:7.00pm – 10.00pm, 4th June 2009 Location:opposite the Chinese Embassy, 49-51 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL 燭光悼念六四屠殺21周年 時間： 2010年六月四日星期五晚七時至十時 地點：中國駐倫敦大使館49-51...

It’s been nearly a week since the violence in the beautifully-named Tivoli Gardens in Jamaica escalated, and still the situation is not under control . The Voice of America reports that the death toll has now reached 73 and hundreds of...

Depressing news in Belfast this afternoon as a man is shot dead in broad daylight by two masked men on the Shankill Road, while a pipe-bomb explodes outside a Sinn Fein office in Castlewellan. You would think that some people don't...