Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

IN A major setback to plans for expanding the US military presence in Japan, Denny Tamaki, the anti-US base governor of Okinawa, has won a second term in office, continuing his platform against US military bases in the prefecture.
In the gubernatorial election held on September 11, Tamaki won with a clear majority by defeating Atsushi Sakima of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Japan’s centre-right ruling party.
As per the final results, Tamaki, supported by a coalition of opposition groups and local movements, secured 339,767 votes, nearly 51 per cent of the total votes polled. Tamaki defeated his nearest rival Sakima for the second time, with a margin of nearly 10 per cent.

Police guidelines suggesting home searches and digital checks for women who experience pregnancy loss under suspicion of having broken the outdated 1967 Abortion Act have sparked uproar, writes PEOPLES’ HEALTH DISPATCH


