International

JEREMY CORBYN is to set out a Labour foreign policy aimed at reducing the terror threat rather than fanning the flames of conflict. The Labour Leader will be speaking tomorrow morning (Friday, 26th May – his birthday) to Labour supporters ...

TWO SMALL STEPS towards gay rights have been taken in the last week – one in Asia, and one in London – while another report indicates that LGBT people are still subject to persecution. •Taiwan has laws which define marriage ...

“I am willing to go to prison for the principle of privacy for all of us.” Muhammad Rabbani I WAS arbitrarily detained at an airport by UK police and asked to hand over the passwords to all my electronic devices. Not ...

THE WORLD FOOD Programme has calculated that half the population of Gaza does not have enough to eat. One important source of food for the people in Gaza is fish – but the fishermen of Gaza are not free to ...

THE UK CHARITY Islamic Relief has been shortlisted by The Charity Awards for an award in its international aid and development category. The nominated programme is the charity’s project to tackle climate change in Bangladesh. Islamic Relief is spending £1 ...

WHILE THE international news media focus on the fighting in Syria, news about the suffering in Yemen is beginning to seep out. Back in March, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that over 62,000 people had been ...

FRANCE HAS elected “centrist” candidate Macron as its new President. Macron won 66.06% of the vote and Marine Le Pen won 33.94%. Now all it needs to do is to find out where the political centre is. Macron is a ...

LIFE DOESN’T STOP just because there is a war on – but sometimes it does get put on hold for a while. Children in Mosul have been in danger because of the fighting going on around them, but for some ...

THE ELECTION OF Donald Trump as US President was never going to make the world a safer place. Nonetheless, even his harshest critics did not think that it would all go wrong so soon. Two things have happened. •First, on 4th ...

AS 58 SYRIAN citizens lie dead, Human Rights monitors have accused the Syrian regime of using chemical weapons against its own people – not for the first time. Rebel forces fighting the Government have also been accused of using chemical ...