A group of students in the UK have launched a hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Activists at the University of Manchester said the strike, which began on Thursday, would last for at least one week. More than 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners, led by senior Fatah[…]
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has triggered the formal two-year process of negotiations that will lead to Britain leaving the European Union after 44 years in a process popularly known as Brexit. A letter invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and officially notifying the EU of Britain’s decision to[…]
Pro-Palestinian activists on Saturday called on the British government to apologise for the “disastrous” role of the Balfour declaration in the “biggest social injustice of our time” – decades of Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. Speakers at the Palestine conference at University College London said the centenary of the 1917[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged British Prime Minister Theresa May to support new sanctions on Iran after it tested a ballistic missile. Netanyahu, who arrived in London on Monday morning, met May in Downing Street today to discuss both the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran. “We face challenges, that’s very clear,[…]
A UK High Court ruling that two Niger Delta communities devastated by oil spills cannot have their claims against Shell heard in the UK could rob them of justice and allow UK multinationals to commit abuses overseas with impunity, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The High Court ruled on Thursday[…]
OPINION By Avi Shlaim [Avi Shlaim is an emeritus professor of international relations at Oxford University.] There is no denying that from time to time anti-Semitism raises its ugly head in the UK, as it does in many other countries. What is striking, however, about contemporary Britain is the use[…]
Senior members of parliament have slammed comments made by an Israeli diplomat on plans to “take down” the UK’s deputy foreign secretary over his criticism of Israel’s settlement policy in the occupied West Bank. Emily Thornberry, the Labour Party’s shadow foreign secretary, called the statements by Shai Masot – a[…]
A UK tourist has been arrested and charged in Dubai for having “extramarital sex” after she reported being gang raped by two British men. The 25-year-old woman was on holiday in the United Arab Emirates when the alleged attack took place last month, according to “Detained in Dubai,” a UK-based[…]
Activists from Black Lives Matter’s newly launched UK chapter blocked a major road to London Heathrow, Britain’s busiest airport, on Friday morning. Police have made ten arrests. London Metropolitan Police say four people were arrested and taken to police stations where they remain in custody. A further six people have[…]
David Cameron will chair his final cabinet meeting as prime minister as Theresa May prepares to take over. Mrs May had been expecting a nine-week Conservative leadership race, but rival Andrea Leadsom withdrew on Monday. Mr Cameron will tender his resignation to the Queen on Wednesday, leaving Mrs May, home[…]
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