The massacre of Red Crescent and civil defence aid workers has elicited little coverage and no condemnation by major powers — this is the age of lawlessness, warns JOE GILL ...

Public libraries are sanctuaries which facilitate the exploration of the universe of ideas for free for those curious enough. ROGER McKENZIE advocates their protection against authoritarian incursions ...

Meanwhile, Labour government toughens rhetoric against the genocide, but stops short of making any changes in policy or ...

FURIOUS trade unionists were thrown out of an Aberdeen City Council meeting today after the SNP-led local authority insisted ...

The earthquake has deepened Myanmar’s ongoing humanitarian crisis, with 20 million people already in need of aid before the disaster. The Sagaing region, one of the worst-hit areas, is largely ...

The European Union, in response to steel and aluminium tariffs, put taxes on €26 billion (£21bn) worth of US goods, including ...

INDIA’S parliament today discussed a controversial proposal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to amend laws governing Muslim land endowments. The Bill seeks to add ...

WILDLIFE organisations have called on politicians to “step up” on nature restoration, warning the Scottish government’s rewilding targets are set to be hit six decades late.

PROTESTERS in Turkey staged a one-day shopping boycott today after the main opposition called for action against the imprisonment of its presidential candidate. The boycott, launched by student groups ...

FOUR activists were removed from the Argus Biomass conference today after disrupting the Drax-sponsored event. Posing as ...

SUSPECTED US air strikes pounded insurgent-held areas of Yemen into this morning, with the Houthis reporting that one strike ...

JAIL illegal fox hunters, a Labour MP has urged as he warned that trail hunting is being used as a “smokescreen” for the practice. Camborne and Redruth MP Perran Moon called for a ban on the practice, ...