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Unemployment is soaring and average pay is falling. Millions of Britain’s poorest households could see their incomes cut by £20 a week from April, when a temporary rise in Universal Credit is due to expire.

Boris Johnson announced a new three-tier lockdown system for England on Monday in his latest attempt to control the virus.

Coronavirus has highlighted deep class divisions across British society. But for the mainstream press in England, the divide is between the North and South. 

Tensions between the Turkish and Greek governments were again ratcheted up last week.

Over three million workers in South Africa’s four largest trade union federations held a national strike on Wednesday of last week.

Greensill Capital has recently provided tens of millions of pounds of British government-guaranteed loans to two companies that employ just 11 people.

There are three things to understand about Donald Trump at present. The first is that he may be incoherent and self-obsessed, but he’s not a fool.

Workers in the UVW union at a Service to the Aged (Sage) care home in north London are balloting for strikes.

Austria’s fascist Freedom Party suffered heavy losses in regional elections in the capital Vienna on Sunday. 

Hundreds of people in Portsmouth and the surrounding area joined protests last Saturday over the Aquind cable project.

Migrants’ rights groups protested against Britain’s brutal immigration system last weekend as they marked the ten year anniversary of Jimmy Mubenga’s death.

Child sex abuse victims of Greville Janner have been barred from giving live evidence to the public inquiry into the former Labour MP.