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Policing / 7 August 2025

Concerns raised over police plans to use controversial DNA tagging spray at League Two matches in Cheshire

7 August 2025

People inspect the damage at the Sheikh Radwan al-Taba UNRWA clinic following an Israeli army bombardment in Gaza City, August 6, 2025

Gaza / 6 August 2025

Top UN official warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’ if Israel occupies rest of Gaza

6 August 2025

Israeli media awash with leaks and rumours of Netanyahu’s plans to seize Gaza. Meanwhile, the unrelenting siege of Gaza continues unabated

Demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags look on as the Ship to Gaza boat 'Handala' arrives at the port of Malmö, Sweden, May 8, 2024

Middle East / 29 July 2025

Former president of Amazon Labour Union Chris Smalls beaten by Israeli soldiers

29 July 2025

Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike

Human Rights / 18 July 2025

Activists rescue over 40 refugees in Malta's Mediterranean waters

18 July 2025

Middle East / 17 June 2025

Egypt's secret police abduct and ‘brutally beat’ three Global March to Gaza's organisers

17 June 2025

People in a crowded wooden boat sail to the port in La Resti

Migration / 17 June 2025

Over 1,800 people die trying to reach Spain from Africa in first five months of 2025

17 June 2025

Upton Rugby Pitch [Pic: Bob Embleton / Creative Commons]

Men's Rugby Union / 11 June 2025

XR to protest against the RFU's ‘sports-washing’ of ‘floody insurers like Allianz’

11 June 2025

The crowd at Manchester Punk Festival 2024

Culture / 11 April 2025

Punk or not, don't miss this

11 April 2025

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

A Palestinian girl struggles as she and others try to get do

World / 17 March 2025

Unicef: A million children in Gaza ‘are living without the very basics they need to survive’

17 March 2025

SETTING AN EXAMPLE: Watford’s and Norwich City players tak

Features / 13 March 2025

Make anti-racism cool again

13 March 2025

Ben Cowles previews his interview with Stand Up to Racism’s SABBY DHALU for the Morning Star’s new Youtube channel

World / 29 January 2025

Two lives could have been saved had Malta launched rescue sooner, activists say

29 January 2025

World / 22 January 2025

Refugees who stopped 108 people from being pushed back to Libya lose latest appeal against criminal charges

22 January 2025

In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanised Brigade

World / 20 November 2024

Anti-landmine organisation slams US government's decision to allow use by Ukraine

20 November 2024

Israeli soldiers stand near trucks carrying humanitarian aid

World / 21 October 2024

Israel continues to block aid into Gaza and is killing people fleeing in the north, UN officials warn

21 October 2024

Men's Football / 17 October 2024

Spurs and West Ham fans to unite against clubs' ‘attack on concessions’

17 October 2024

Labour MP Nadia Whittome (second-left) addresses the Labour

Labour Conference 2024 / 23 September 2024

Trying to ‘out Tory the Tories’ on immigration will only embolden the far-right, Whittome tells fringe meeting

23 September 2024

Police officers fire tear gas canisters during a protest ove

World / 27 June 2024

Kenyan cops must stop misusing crowd-control weapons on protesters, human rights campaigners demand

27 June 2024

World / 27 June 2024

Civil court in Italy rules the detention of a refugee rescue ship in March was unlawful

27 June 2024

A screen grab of a viral video showing uncontacted Hongana M

World / 26 June 2024

German chemical giant pulls out of major nickel project in Indonesia following pressure from human rights campaigners

26 June 2024

Palestinian children sit at the edge of a crater after an Is

World / 21 June 2024

Governments, arms companies and banks urged to end weapon sales to Israel

21 June 2024

‘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

General View of a Levi's store in London

World / 21 June 2024

Workers at a Levi's supplier factory in Turkey subjected to ‘violence, mass sackings and blacklisting’

21 June 2024

Sudanese Children suffering from malnutrition are treated at

World / 24 May 2024

World urged to protect civilians in Sudan's Darfur region as RSF surrounds city

24 May 2024

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