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1 week ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Roger McKenzie
HAMAS will free its Israeli hostages if an end to the Gaza war is guaranteed, a senior official from the resistance group said today.
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1 week ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Roger McKenzie
CHINA’S President Xi Jinping warned there are “no winners” in a trade war yesterday as he kicked off a diplomatic tour of south-east Asia. President Xi also repeated China’s commitment to global trade, contrasting it with tariffs slapped on many nations by United States President Donald Trump.
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1 week ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Roger McKenzie
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak called on Saturday for a stronger trade union movement to win racial justice, during a speech to the TUC black workers’ conference. He told delegates that he had just returned from a visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank. “Last week, I was in Ramallah, where I heard first hand about the situation facing people in the occupied West Bank, where aid and food has been deliberately cut off.
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1 week ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Roger McKenzie
BLACK workers highlighted concerns over the rise of the far right across Britain and the rest of Europe during Saturday’s debate at the TUC black workers’ conference. Delegates insisted that the rise of extremism was being fuelled by political parties desperate to push their agenda. Teacher Ruth Duncan of the NASUWT said: “The far right are targeting young people through social media. “As exposure to social media grows, so does the rise of the far right.
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1 week ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Roger McKenzie
THE scourge of sexual harassment and misogyny in the workplace was highlighted in a panel discussion at TUC Black Workers’ Conference today. Michelle Codrington-Rogers, from teaching union NASUWT, chaired the discussion and pointed delegates to a recent TUC report on black women’s experiences of sexual harassment. “This is about repaying the trust given by people who came forward to give evidence for the report,” she said.
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1 week ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Roger McKenzie
THE government sometimes needs a “kick up the arse,” Labour’s Cabinet Office Minister told TUC Black Workers’ Conference today. Abena Oppong-Asara said that black trade unionists continued to be the vanguard in the fight against racism. “The two wings of our movement must work together to tackle racism,” she said.
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2 weeks ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Roger McKenzie
ISRAEL freed a Palestinian today who took part in an attack when he was 13 and developed schizophrenia in prison as requests for his early release were denied. The Israeli authorities accused Ahmad Manasra of being a terrorist who tried to kill Jews of his own age. However, Palestinians accuse Israel of subjecting a child to harsh incarceration that led to serious and potentially permanent mental illness.
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2 weeks ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Roger McKenzie
CHINA will seek a shared future with its neighbours, the country’s government said today as the tariff war launched by the United States narrowed its focus to Beijing. On Wednesday President Donald Trump suspended the tariffs, bar a 10 per cent base level, that he had slapped on every nation except China. As stock markets across the globe collapsed, Mr Trump said he was putting the plan on hold for 90 days, claiming that countries were lining up to negotiate more favourable conditions.
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2 weeks ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Roger McKenzie
WITH the United Nations conference of parties (Cop) climate talks fast approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched in Brazil’s capital on Tuesday. The protesters demanded that the state guarantee and expand their rights to traditional lands as part of the solution to the world’s climate crisis. Bearing messages such as “Land rights = Climate Action,” they walked toward Three Powers Square in Brasilia, where congress, the supreme court and the presidential palace are located.
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2 weeks ago | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Roger McKenzie
THE IDF’s killing spree continued today as an attack on a residential block in Gaza City killed at least 15 Palestinians. Gaza’s Health Ministry said at least 40 people were also wounded in the attack on a four-storey building in the city’s Shijaiyah neighbourhood. More than half of the dead were women and children. Rescue teams were searching for victims under the rubble. The Israeli military claimed it struck a senior Hamas militant, who it said was behind attacks emanating from Shijaiyah.
