The threat of US intervention is opening up divisions in the opposition even as the regime admits it has reached stalemate, warns Simon Assaf
The roots of the violence in Kenya lie in years of intervention in Somalia, says Ken Olende
Protesters filled the streets of Greece's major cities this evening, Wednesday, over the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas by a Golden Dawn member.
High school teachers across Greece began an all-out strike on Monday of this week. Almost all schools were shut and over 90 percent of teachers took part. More than 30,000 marched in central Athens.
US president Barack Obama has stepped back from his threat to bomb Syria. The US and Russia signed an accord in Geneva last Saturday.
Up to 200,000 trade unionists marched in Warsaw last Saturday against the government’s austerity polices.
Riot police attacked striking teachers in Zocalo, the central square of Mexico city, on Friday of last week.
Some 370,000 people marched in Paris on Tuesday of last week on a day of strikes against plans to make workers pay billions more for their pensions.
The Greek government has begun a second attempt to prosecute Petros Constantinou, an Athens councillor and coordinator of the Movement Against Racism and the Fascist Threat (Keerfa).
Barack Obama is exposing the faultlines of US power as he goes all out to win a vote to attack Syria.
A growing number of insurgent organisations in Syria have declared their opposition to a US strike on Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The Conservative Party has won Norway’s elections, with 27 percent of the vote.
