National News
Patient safety at risk
by Ekaterina Blinova
THE National Health Service in England is facing the biggest personnel shortages in its 74-year history; chronic understaffing now plagues every department, creating a “serious risk to staff and patient safety” a recent study warns.
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On the Airside
by New Worker correspondent
DESPITE some recent boosts to pay, working life at airports is not a bed of roses.
Unite, the biggest union in the aviation sector, has carried out a survey which has found that long and excessive hours are the norm rather than the exception.
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On the rail tracks
by New Worker correspondent
MEANWHILE, on the railways widespread industrial action is underway. Apart from the RMT strike on Wednesday that forced the government to revive the wartime slogan of “Don’t travel unless your journey is absolutely necessary”, there are other battles to be fought
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Vikings victory and Vectis battle
by New Worker correspondent
SOME GOOD news comes in from the most northern part of Britain, with the workers at Lerwick Port securing a pay rise of up to 38 per cent.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
IN THE good old days it used to be said that whenever British governments had long-standing problems that they did not know (or care) how to deal with they set up a Royal Commission to report on the matter – which it eventually would after long discussion. This would be presented as a “solution” even though little concrete action followed.
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Chinese Ambassador visits Cardiff University
by New Worker correspondent
THE CHINESE ambassador recalled his student days in Wales, when he returned to the Welsh capital on 7th July to meet Colin Riordan, the President and Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University to discuss deepening exchanges and co-operation between the university and People’s China.
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International News
A lesson the Americans
still don’t get
by Nebojsa Malic
HAVING LEARNED nothing from Afghanistan, the Americans are repeating their mistakes in Ukraine.
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Very bad news on the weather
by Guillermo Alvarado
THE World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) warns that heat waves, such as the one that is currently suffocating several European countries, will continue at least until the year 2060, despite of the efforts made to mitigate global warming.
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South Africa calls for Israel to be declared an apartheid state
from Radio Havana Cuba
SOUTH AFRICA says Israel’s continued occupation of “significant portions of the West Bank” and the development of new settlements there “are glaring examples of violations of international law” as the long-running Israel–Palestine conflict continues.
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Famine fuelled by greed
by G Dunkel
ACCORDING to Oxfam and Save the Children, 1,500 people – mainly children aged under five-years-old and elders – are dying every day in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
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Top Bahraini sacked in Israeli row
from Radio Havana Cuba
A TOP Bahraini official and member of the ruling family has been dismissed after refusing to shake hands with the Israeli ambassador to the Persian Gulf country
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Features
Treated like dirt - Kiev’s crimes against the Donbas
by Vladislav Ugolny
THE UKRAINIAN regime has long treated the people of the Donbas as sub-humans. The military conflict in Ukraine that began on 24th February was preceded by a much older conflict. Over the course of eight years, it claimed the lives of at least 14,200 people, over 37,000 were wounded, hundreds of thousands became refugees or had their homes destroyed.
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The horrors of slavery
by Monica Moorehead
A RIGHTEOUS tidal wave of anger followed people seeing the nine-minutes-plus videotaped police lynching of George Floyd in Minneapolis late May 2020. Racist monuments glorifying the slave-owning Confederacy came tumbling down, especially in the Deep South.
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Review - Jurassic World Dominion
by Ben Soton
Jurassic World Dominion (2022). Dir: Colin Trevorrow; Writers: Derek Connolly (story), Emily Carmichael & Colin Trevorrow (screenplay); Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Laura Dern, DeWanda Wise, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill. 12A 207 mins.
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