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We must halt the escalation towards World War III
The Star publishes here a speech by SEVIM DAGDELEN, member of the German Bundestag, at the Conference for World Equilibrium in Havana, Cuba, earlier this week
Emergency workers clear the rubble after a Russian rocket his a multi-storey building leaving many people under debris in the south-eastern city of Dnipro
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
THIS conference turns the spotlight on the key question of our time, namely how can humanity, in all its diversity, achieve balanced coexistence?
In a context of war, militarisation and increasingly bitter bloc confrontation with the potential to escalate into a third world war, this question is of existential importance.
I speak to you today as a member of Parliament from the left-wing opposition in a country that is a warring party in the Ukraine conflict.
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