THE WORLD: 31st December 2019:
Auld Lang Syne lyrics: All the words to sing on New Year’s Eve as world rings in 2020 ...... Sing along

BEIRUT: New York Times: 23rd December 2019:
5 sentenced to death in slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi ...... Read more

WASHINGTON: Los Angeles Times: 9th December 2019:
What the Dickens? President Scrooge’s Christmas gift to millions of poor Americans: A cut to their food stamps. Bah, humbug! ...... Read more

ISTANBUL: Daily Sabah: 3rd December 2019:
Cold weather and a lack of food have made life miserable for residents living in camps along the Turkish-Syrian border after they fled from regime attacks in hopes of peace ...... Read more

LONDON: Artnet News: 20th November 2019:
Anti-oil activists blocked entrances to the opening party of the British Museum’s “Troy: Myth and Reality” exhibition, protesting its sponsorship by the oil giant BP. Demonstrators from the climate justice organization BP or Not BP? dressed as ‘living statues’ of Greek deities, covered in oil, confronted guests at the museum’s glitzy preview party last night ...... Read more

ATHENS: Al Jazeera: 17th November 2019:
Greece remembers the brutality that felled its dictatorship ...... Read more

For the Fallen: Remembrance Day 11th November 2019:
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.     _{(Laurence Binyon - 1869-1943)}

WASHINGTON: New York Times: 4th November 2019:
President Trump formally announces withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord ...... Read more

NEW YORK: New York Times: 31st October 2019:
President Trump has received a formal invitation to be impeached. The House resolution confirms the developments that will almost definitely end in the president’s impeachment ...... Read more

NEW YORK: New York Times: 26th October 2019:
Extra, Extra! ... The President Won’t Read All About It ...... Trump cancels subscriptions to New York Times and Washington Post ...... Read more

LONDON: New York Times: 24th October 2019:
Thirty nine bodies discovered in the trailer of a truck found at a lorry park near Purfleet (England) are likely Chinese Nationals, according to UK police ...... Read more

LONDON: The Guardian: 21st October 2019:
Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, denies Boris Johnson second vote on Brexit deal ...... Read more

VOICES: Robert Fisk: The Independent: 18th October 2019:
Trump’s disgrace in the Middle East is the death of an empire. Vladimir Putin is Caesar now ...... Read more

LONDON: Reuters: Daily Sabah: 18th October 2019:
UK parliament seeks new analysis on cost of Brexit before key vote ...... Read more

MIDDLE EAST: New York Times: 11th October 2019:
ISIS Rears Its Head - adding to chaos as Turkey battles Kurds in North Eastern Syria ...... Read more

NEW YORK: The Independent: 11th October 2019:
Jane Fonda arrested during climate change protest at Capitol Hill ...... Read more

LONDON: The Guardian: 24th September 2019:
The UK Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that the prorogation of Parliament brought forward by Prime Minister Boris Johnson was unlawful, and, therefore, null and of no effect and that Parliament has not been prorogued ...... Read more

LONDON: Associated Press: 23rd September 2019:
Thomas Cook collapses, 600K bookings canceled ...... Read more

ISTANBUL: Daily Sabah: 14th September 2019:
Israeli military uproots Palestinians’ olive trees in occupied West Bank ...... Read more

SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco Chronicle: 1st September 2019:
A San Francisco developer, in receipt of state tax credits to upgrade low-income housing, is evicting sitting tenants whose low income disqualifies them from the low-income housing ...... Read more

ISTANBUL: Daily Sabah: 19th August 2019:
Britain to terminate free movement with EU right after Brexit ...... Read more

DONGGUAN: Hurriyet Daily News: 11th August 2019:
Huawei launches first product with own operating system ...... Read more

EL PASO: The Intercept: 4th August 2019:
On Saturday morning, a gunman at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, shot and killed at least 20 people before surrendering to the police ...... Read more

ISTANBUL: Hurriyet Daily News: 3rd August 2019:
Syriac Orthodox Church is new wealth for Istanbul ...... Read more

ISTANBUL: Reuters: 4th July 2019:
Erdogan says a U.S. refusal to give F-35s to Turkey would be ‘robbery’ ...... Read more

WASHINGTON: Los Angeles Times: 27th June 2019:
The Supreme Court has delivered a political blow to the Trump administration by refusing to approve the citizenship question on the 2020 census. The ruling thwarts the administration’s effort to ask all households about the citizenship of their residents as part of the upcoming census ...... Read more

MIDDLE EAST: Al Jazeera: 25th June 2019:
In an interview with Al Jazeera, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said it will not be possible to solve the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a deal “along the lines of the Arab Peace Initiative”, and that the Bahrain meeting will be a success despite a Palestinian boycott. ...... Read more

MIDDLE EAST: Al Jazeera: 19th June 2019:
Mohammed Morsi: An Egyptian tragedy: Morsi’s presidency was a flicker of hope for a democratic future in a country long dominated by ruthless dictators ...... Read more

ANKARA: Hurriyet Daily News: 18th June 2019:
Egypt’s former president, Mohammed Morsi has died. Egypt’s first democratically elected president in 2012, he was ousted on 3rd July 2013, when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed him from office in a military coup. Ex President Morsi was buried, east of Cairo, under heavy security early on 18th June 2019. ...... Read more

FLORENCE: AFP: 17th June 2019:
Thousands of people lined up in central Florence June 17 to pay their respects to Italian film-maker and opera director Franco Zeffirelli, who died at the weekend ...... Read more

NEW YORK: Reuters: 12th June 2019:
Radiohead snubs ransom demand and sells hacked music for climate activists ...... Read more

LONDON: The Independent: 8th June 2019:
Saudi Arabia seeking to execute teenager who was detained aged 13 ..... Read more

LONDON: New York Times: 4th June 2019:
As reported by Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, Trump took all of his children along for his state visit to the United Kingdom ...... Read more

WASHINGTON: The Atlantic: 3rd June 2019:
A Middle East Peace Plan Built on Un-American Principles ...... Read more

LONDON: The Intercept: 24th May 2019:
The decision to charge Julian Assange with espionage could make his extraditon to the United Stated less likely ...... Read more

MADRID - Saint-Nicolas-de-Véroce: El Pais: 20th May 2019:
Before his arrest in a hideout in the French Alps last week, Josu Ternera, the former leader of the Basque separatist movement ETA, had spent 17 years on the run after participating in some of the group’s bloodiest attacks ...... Read more

LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles Times: 17th May 2019:
A 2015 blowout at a natural gas well that led to the largest-known release of methane in U.S. history was the result of a corroded pipe casing and safety failures by Southern California Gas Co ...... Read more

LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles Times: 15th May 2019:
Investigators with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection have concluded that Pacific Gas & Electric equipment caused the devastating Camp fire that destroyed nearly 14,000 homes and killed 85 people, most of them elderly, last year ...... Read more

SAN FRANCISCO: Associated Press: 13th May 2019:
San Francisco is on track to become the first U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition by police and other city agencies, reflecting a growing backlash against a technology that’s creeping into airports, motor vehicle departments, stores, stadiums and home security cameras ...... Read more

YANGON: Reuters: 7th May 2019:
Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from prison on May 7th after more than 500 days behind bars ...... Read more

LONDON: The Independent: 1st May 2019:
Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching bail. A separate hearing on Thursdsay will decide if he is to be extradited to the US where he is accused of helping orchestrate one of the largest ever leaks of US government secrets ...... Read more

LONDON: The Guardian: 26th April 2019:
Jeremy Corbyn declines invitation to state banquet for Donald Trump ...... Read more

ATHENS: wafa: 18th April 2019:
Palestinian diplomat expresses concern over Greek firms’ bid for an Israeli rail project ...... Read more

LONDON: Agence France-Presse: 17th April 2019:
Julian Assange will resist any attempt to extradite him to the United States but will co-operate with Swedish authorities if they re-open the rape charges against him ......Read more

PARIS: The Guardian: 16th April 2019:
The rose windows of Notre Dame have miraculously survived the conflagration along with the Cathedral’s most precious treasures including the crown of thorns, a Catholic relic, and the tunic of Saint Louis ...... Read more

LONDON: 11th April 2019:
Julian Assange has been forcibly removed from the Embassy of Ecuador in London and is presently being held at Belmarsh Prison awaiting sentencing for breach of bail conditions and facing extradition to the United States ...... Read indictment

LONDON: UK Parliament: 26th February 2019:
SHAME ...... SHAME ...... SHAME
UK Rejects International Court of Justice Opinion on the Chagos Islands ...... Read more

SAN FRANCISCO: Los AngelesTimes: 25th February 2019:
San Francisco will remove more than 9,300 marijuana-related crimes from people’ records ...... Read more

LONDON: Reuters: 20th February 2019:
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters condemns Richard Branson’s Venezuela aid concert ......
Virgin says event ‘is not a political statement and the US is not involved’ ...... Read more

LONDON: Los Angeles Times: 15th January 2019:
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal was overwhelmingly defeated in a historic vote in Parliament ...... Read more

WASHINGTON: The Guardian: 4th December 2018:
US senators certain Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi’s murder ...... Read more

WASHINGTON: Hurriyet Daily News: Reuters: 18th November 2018:
CIA assessment blaming Saudi Crown Prince of Khashoggi murder ‘possible’ ...... Read more

WASHINGTON: Hurriyet Daily News: 2nd November 2018:
Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered four weeks ago. We’re still waiting for answers ...... Read more

ISTANBUL: Hurriyet Daily News: 1st November 2018:
Jamal Khashoggi’s body destroyed in acid by Saudis: Report ...... Read more

PRESTON-LANCASHIRE: The Guardian: 17th October 2018:
Fracking protesters walk free after court quashes 'excessive' sentences ...... Read more

PRESTON-LANCASHIRE: The Guardian: 5th October 2018:
Three environmental activists who became the first people to be jailed for an anti-fracking protest in the UK are to appeal against their sentences amid growing anger over their “excessive and extraordinary” punishments. ...... Read more

REMEMBERING BAHA MOUSA: 15th September 2018:     A father's testimony:
The circumstances which led to the death of Baha Mousa, an Iraqi civilian, in September 2003 and the treatment of other Iraqi civilians who were detained with him by British soldiers in Basra ...... Read more

STRASBOURG: The Guardian: 13th September 2018:
Surveillance system revealed by Snowden breached right to privacy ...... Read more

JERUSALEM: Reuters: 24th May 2018:
Israel plans 2,500 new settler homes in West Bank ...... Read more

BEIJING: The Guardian: 13th July 2017:
China is facing a barrage of international criticism for its treatment of the Nobel laureate and democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo, who died at the age of 61 on Thursday ...... Read more