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Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month
Ben Cowles previews his interview with Stand Up to Racism’s SABBY DHALU for the Morning Star’s new Youtube channel
‘By sending weapons, parts, components and ammunition to Israeli forces,’ the above risk being ‘complicit in serious violations of international human rights laws,’ UN experts warn
Meanwhile, in Ethiopia, Sudanese refugees lack basic necessities, and have been subjected to attacks by armed militia, according to the Alliance of Forces for Radical Change
EU states call for Syria to be reclassified as a safe country
BEN COWLES, who is covering the sports desk this week while Bella Katz is on holiday, explains why he won't refer to ‘white c**t’ as a ‘racist’ slur
‘This incident demonstrates not only how far refugee rights have been eroded in the UK but also how the right to protest is under attack,’ Reclaim The Sea founder Tigs Louis-Puttick says
Meanwhile, thousands try to flee the country as fighting and looting rages on
The international humanitarian organisation calls on the authorities to put an end to the hostile policy
Comedian Joe Lycett says he will donate £10k to LGBT+ football charities if Beckham quits Qatar, but will drop it all in a blender if he doesn't
Human Rights Watch joins calls by Amnesty International, the UNHCR and many more, for the 250 people aboard the Humanity 1 and Geo Barents to be brought ashore
European authorities ignore crew's 16 calls for a port to disembark the rescued
Amnesty levels accusation at England's governing body and praises Welsh FA for highlighting issue
World's largest trade union federation calls for an end to this latest abuse of workers as World Cup draws close
‘Yet again journalists, wearing press vests, clearly identified were targeted by Israeli snipers,’ International Federation of Journalists says
Norwegian Refugee Council calls for humanitarian access to all communities across Ukraine as UN human rights chief warns international humanitarian laws have been ‘tossed aside’
‘Handing the case over to Saudi Arabia would be a serious blow to any remaining chance of criminal justice for Jamal Khashoggi’s killers,’ Reporters Without Borders says
Former police commissioner says CNI orchestrated the attacks in order to scare region away from voting for independence
BEN COWLES talks to some of those who are battling to save lives on the borders of ‘Fortress Europe’
Migrants used as political pawns in battle between the EU, Lithuania and Belarus, while 800 refugees in the Mediterranean are still not allowed to come ashore
Meanwhile, wildfires in Greece threaten the birthplace of the Olympics
Congresswoman Cori Bush praised for spending five-days campaigning on the steps of Capitol Hill
Macharia's five-year Home Office ‘nightmare’ is finally over
Open Society Justice Initiative says ruling is discrimination masquerading as neutrality
Sinn Fein says the British government’s proposals would protect state forces from their “dirty role” in Ireland
More than 1,100 people have drowned at Europe's maritime borders so far this year, more than double the number from the same period last year
Refugee support groups warn the boys are being made scapegoats for the EU’s inhumane migration policy
Meanwhile, five NGO refugee rescue ships continued to be held in Italy
Meanwhile, US Vice-President Kamala Harris criticised for telling migrants ‘do not come’ to border when seeking asylum at any border is 100% legal
Meanwhile, lawyers take Frontex to court for the first time in the agency's history over its alleged role in pushbacks
Sea-Eye chairman Gorden Isler says the 1951 Refugee Convention might as well be written off for good if EU countries continue to mistreat people at its borders
The Sea-Eye 4 rescue ship heads to Palermo, on the Italian island of Sicily, after mayor says the city is open to them
Rescuers on board the Sea-Eye 4 call for a port of safety to disembark the rescued
UN calls for a ‘redoubling of efforts to calm down the situation’ and for an immediately halt to Israeli threats to evict hundreds of Palestinians from their East Jerusalem homes
‘Football is for the people. It’s time we took it back,’ supporters groups and community activists say
‘Instead of being prosecuted,’ campaigners say, the young men ‘should be celebrated for their actions in preventing the return of 108 precarious lives to Libya’
Authorities ignored their rescuers' calls for days
Britain urged to stop arming the war and supplying the Saudis with the aircraft that are dropping the bombs on Yemen’s children
Meanwhile the 116 survivors on board the Ocean Viking rescue ship continue four-day wait to be allowed to come ashore
Tories cite ‘commercial reasons’ to hide spend on military technology at English Channel
Meanwhile, 363 who were rescued this weekend by the crew of an NGO rescue ship still wait for Italy or Malta to allow them to come ashore
Sea Watch 3 finally released after being held for seven months for ‘absurd’ reasons
BEN COWLES tells how civilian refugee rescue organisations saved the lives of 149 people in Malta’s search-and-rescue zone last weekend while the authorities and passing ships refused assistance
BEN COWLES talks with the co-ordinator for the reconnaissance aircraft, Seabird, about dramatic events at sea last Friday, after a flimsy boat carrying 40 people was spotted near the island of Lampedusa
New report by Mare Liberum documents 321 migrant pushbacks in the Aegean Sea last year
Ocean Viking disembarks 373 people in Italy
‘The 373 people we have on board the Ocean Viking all deserve the right to disembark in a place of safety,’ the ship's comms officer tells the Star
The Ocean Viking was held by the Italian coastguard for months after its rescue of 181 refugees
Open Arms search-and-rescue Coordinator DAVID LLADO tells the Star's Ben Cowles about the moment 118 refugees fell into sea when their boat split in half and how his team rescued them
Alarm Phone asks why authorities still have no answer to what happened to 91 people who went missing in the Mediterranean in February
Why did Frontex help an NGO ship rescue refugees in the Mediterranean, asks BEN COWLES
Campaigners demand Amazon improve its workers' pay and conditions, recognise workers' rights to organise, stop harming the environment, and stop supporting cops and immigration authorities
The Open Arms NGO rescue ship, now carrying 259 refugees, ordered to sail to Sicily
European states have blockaded seven civilian rescue ships from going back to sea since October
It's been a month since the Italian port authorities seized the last NGO rescue ship. In that time over 150 refugees have drowned and over a thousand have been intercepted by the Libyan coastguard, writes BEN COWLES
Government urged to continue to fund hotel beds for frontline staff
43 people in a wooden boat near Malta battle two-metre high waves as Alarm Phone's mayday calls go answered
UNHCR, IOM, Oxfam and urge the European Commission to end ‘ad hoc crisis-driven approach’
LEA REISNER tells the Star about the Louise Michel, a feminist refugee rescue ship named after the famous anarchist and funded by the world's most elusive street-art star — and how the civil fleet came to its aid when Europe abandoned it