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The Tories are talking up the prospect of winning a vote for airstrikes in Syria.

US bombs killed 22 people in a hospital in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan last Saturday. The dead included 12 doctors and ten patients. 

Fast food workers from 20 countries met in Brazil recently in a 90-strong delegation of global allies of the “Fight for 15” US-wide strike movement. 

Includes letters on Cuba-US relations, GM crops ban, defending abortion rights and more.

Around 100 protesters gathered by the US Embassy in central London last Saturday to mark the first anniversary of Mike Brown’s death in Ferguson.

A state of emergency has been declared in Ferguson, Missouri, after cops shot a young black man during a protest to mark the anniversary of the police killing of Michael Brown.

On the anniversary of the US dropping a nuclear bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Simon Basketter argues the destruction was a tool in the battle for strategic control.

Barack Obama announced the final version of his “Clean Power Plan” on Sunday.

Barack Obama has economic as well as strategic motivations in mind for his extended interest in Africa, writes Alex Callinicos

Iranian socialist Nima Soltanzadeh welcomes an historic deal to end economic sanctions that only helped the regime

Nine black church­goers were murdered in Charleston, South Carolina last week by a racist who told them, “You have to go”.

The video footage of a Texas police officer restraining and pulling a gun on black teenagers at a pool party has been seen by millions.