(12 January 2025 17:39 GMT)
US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke over the phone on Sunday, according to several reports.
(12 January 2025 17:39 GMT)
US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke over the phone on Sunday, according to several reports.
Es gab offenbar Verletzte. Wie die Deutsche Presse-Agentur aus Regierungskreisen erfuhr, wurde der Fahrer festgenommen. Der Weihnachtsmarkt wurde geschlossen.
The United States army announced on Sunday that it carried out airstrikes against 75 Islamic State (ISIS) camps in Syria, to prevent the group from taking “advantage” of the recent kerfuffle in the country.
“The strikes against the ISIS leaders, operatives, and camps were conducted as part of the ongoing mission to disrupt, degrade, and defeat ISIS,” read a statement from the army’s Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees US troops in the Middle East.
CAIRO – 26 November 2024: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Badr Abdelatty reiterated Monday in a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken the importance of empowering Lebanese state institutions, mainly the army so it would control the south.
Mr. Scholz vowed to keep governing until the end of the year and then to demand a confidence vote in Parliament in January, a test he may fail. That would open the way for early elections, a rarity in Germany since World War II, possibly in March.
…Als Politikwissenschaftlerin kann man natürlich nicht geheim halten, dass das alles hochinteressant und spannend ist und man sich darüber freut, das beobachten zu können. Als Bürgerin des Landes gebe ich aber auch offen zu, dass das bewegende Zeiten sind und weitreichende Zeiten, und insofern ist es ein gemischtes Gefühl, mit dem man auf das schaut und sich schon fragt, wenn wir in den USA gestern früh anfangen und hier in Deutschland, in Berlin gestern Abend enden, was so an einem einzigen Tag alles an Bewegungen stattfinden kann und uns jetzt über Monate, womöglich Jahre beschäftigen wird. …
Today, 6:37 am
Rocket warning sirens sound in Tel Aviv and the surrounding areas.
(Today, 5:32 pm)
“The field commander in charge of the Naqura region has been martyred in an Israeli strike,” the source tells AFP, with the official National News Agency reporting one dead in an Israeli strike on a car in Ain Baal, about 15 kilometers (nine miles) from the border.
(today)
And therefore, as was the case when he insisted on continuing to run the country while in the midst of a corruption trial, and as was the case when he pressed on with his assault on Israeli democracy and briefly fired that defense minister, so too, now, it falls to a potential few good men and women within his own coalition base to tell him that his presence is harming Israel, that his policies empowered and emboldened Hamas, and that far from being uniquely capable of ensuring Israel has the practical and diplomatic room to destroy Hamas, he is almost uniquely incapable of doing so.
(26.03.2024)
Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president in 2024, sat down for an interview with Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom about the ongoing military invasion — and warned that the world was growing tired of the conflict.
„You have to finish up your war. You have to finish it up. You’ve got to get it done,“ he told the newspaper.
He continued, „We’ve got to get to peace. You can’t have this going on, and I will say Israel has to be very careful because you are losing a lot of the world. You are losing a lot of support.“
The man also said that the curators, whom he supposedly does not know personally, had contacted him via Telegram messaging app, and arranged an arms cache for the assailants.
According to the suspect, he had been “listening to sermons… by a preacher” on Telegram for some time before being approached by the supposed masterminds of Friday’s attack “around a month ago.”
Aus dem aufgezeichneten Verhör geht hervor, dass alle vier Verdächtigen am 4. März aus der Türkei nach Russland eingereist sind. Einer von ihnen spricht gebrochenes Russisch, kann sich aber ohne Dolmetscher verständigen. Bei einem anderen wurde eine Dolmetscherin, offenbar für Tadschikisch, hinzugezogen. Die massenhafte Tötung von Menschen in der „Crocus City Hall“ am Freitagabend haben die Männer ohne Umschweife gestanden.
Einer der Vernommenen gab auf die Frage, warum er die Konzertbesucher ermordet hat, an, die Tat für Geld verübt zu haben. Als Summe nennt er 500.000 Rubel (etwa 5.000 Euro).
In light of recent developments, the German chancellor (SPD/S&D) spoke out in support of Assange at a Q&A session at a school in Baden-Württemberg.
“I believe it would be good if the British courts would grant him the necessary protection, because he is facing prosecution in the United States, as he has leaked American state secrets,” Scholz said in Sindelfingen.
(19:49 GMT)
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) and British maritime security firm Ambrey said they received reports of a ship being attacked near the port city of Aden.
The „vessel has been hit on port side by an uncrewed aerial system,“ the organisation said. It added that the vessel and crew are safe and are continuing the journey
US President Joe Biden said he ordered the strikes “in direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea.”
Prince Khalid bin Bandar, the Saudi ambassador in London, told the BBC on Tuesday that a normalisation deal was „close“ but the kingdom paused US-brokered talks after the attack on Israel on 7 October by Hamas-led fighters.
„For us, the final end point definitely included nothing less than an independent state of Palestine,“ he said.
(03.01.2024)
Turkish foreign ministry spokesperson Oncu Keceli said in a statement that Ankara welcomes the South African case, which says Israel has violated its obligations under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
“Israel‘s murder of more than 22,000 Palestinian civilians, the majority of whom were women and children, in Gaza for nearly three months should not go unpunished in any way,“ Keceli said.
(02.01.2024)
Malaysia’s foreign ministry said the petition also included a request for the ICJ to indicate provisional or short-term measures ordering Israel to stop its military campaign in the besieged territory, and to ensure Israel’s compliance with its obligations under the Genocide Convention.
“The legal action against Israel before the ICJ is a timely and tangible step towards legal accountability for Israel’s atrocities in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territory at large,” the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Organizational Signers:
– Black Alliance for Peace
– Popular Resistance, USA
– Palestinian Assembly for Liberation
– CODEPINK, USA
– Progressive International
– Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
– Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)
– Women‘s International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section
– World Beyond War
– International Association of Democratic Lawyers
– National Lawyers Guild, USA
– US Boats to Gaza
– Gaza Freedom Flotilla
– Roots Action, USA
– Veterans for Peace, USA
– Project Enduring Peace, USA
– Women‘s International League for Peace and Freedom, Palestine Section
– PEN International-Palestine
– Peace, Justice, Sustainability, NOW!, USA
– Friends of Latin America, USA
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center (CMMLK), Cuba
– Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN), Colombia
– Women‘s March Global – Region of the Americas
– Landless Workers Movement MST, Brazil
– Federation of Mexican Workers and Unions (Confederación de Trabajadores y Sindicatos de Mexico)
– Venezuelan Popular Feminist Movement (Plataforma de Feminismo Popular de Venezuela)
– Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAR), Western Hemisphere
– The Latin American and Caribbean Council on Popular Education (CEAAL)
– The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy – MIFTAH
– Kenyans for Palestine
– Tatuy Tv, Venezuela
– Asociación Ecuatoriana de Amistad con el Pueblo Saharaui (AEAPS)
– Centro de Documentación en Derechos Humanos Segundo Montes Mozo S.J., Ecuador
– Comité Internacional Paz, Justicia y Dignidad a los Pueblos, Cuba/USA
– Euskadi, Cuba
– Comité de Solidaridad con la Causa Árabe, Spain
– Palestina Toma la Calle, España
– Coordinadora por la Paz, la Soberanía la Integración y la No Injerencia CPAZ Movimiento Social de DDHH, Ecuador
– Centro de Estudios e Investigación sobre Mujeres, Spain
– Fórum de Política Feminista, Spain
– Partido Comunista de los Trabajadores de Argentina
– Plataforma de Solidaridad con la Causa Palestina (Venezuela)
– Foro Itinerante de Participación Popular, Venezuela
– Asociación Gremial de Abogados y Abogadas de Argentina
– Convocatoria SEGUNDA INDEPENDENCIA de Argentina
– Agrupación ESPERANZA Revolucionaria y Socialista, Argentina
– Red de Intelectuales y Artistas en Defensa de la Humanidad- Capitulo Paraguay
– Conseil National des Comités Populaires (CNCP Martinique)
– Instituto Simón Bolívar para la Paz y la Solidaridad entre los Pueblos, Venezuela
– Plateforme Haitienne de Plaidoyer pour un Developpement Alternatif (PAPDA), Haiti
– Women Democratic Front, Pakistan
– Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice, Palestine/International
– Feminist Conversations Kenya (FCK)
– Syrian Center For Media and Freedom Of Expression
– SOLI (Red de Lucha Por la Paz y Solidaridad Internacional) Puerto Rico
– ALBA Movimientos, Latin America
– Asociación de Mujeres Campesinas y Populares AMUCAP-C, Paraguay
– Alianza Latinoamericana Por Palestina contra el Apartheid
– Liga Mexicana por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, LIMEDDH
– Justice for All, USA
– Venezuelanalysis
– Diáspora Pa’lante Collective, Puerto Rico
– Coletivo Advogadas e Advogados pela Democracia (CAAD), Brazil
– Naco Nius México. M. N. N.
– ARCH Jerusalem (Geneva, Switzerland)
– PAL Commission on War Crimes, Justice, Reparations and Return
– Women Advancement for Economic and Leadership Empowerment in Africa (WAELE AFRICA)
– Geneva Council For International Affairs and Development
– Casa Tecmilco, México
– Surgentes, colectivo de DDHH (Venezuela)
– Izquierda Libertaria – Chile
– Amigos de la Tierra América Latina y el Caribe (ATALC)
– Scandinavian Institute for Human Rights/Haytham Manna Foundation
– French Observatory for Human Rights
– Union of Palestinian Organizations of Latin America (UPAL)
– Amman Center for Human Rights Studies (ACHRS), Jordan
– Syrian Medical Committee
– Horan Rencontre por la Citoyennete, France
– International Institute for Peace, Justice and Human Rights – IIPJHR, Switzerland
– Fórum Latino Palestino, Brazil
– Syndicat National des Journalistes Tunisien (SNJT), Tunis
– Muslim Journal, USA
– Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists
– Ordre National des Avocats de Tunisie
– Kuagro Ri Changaina, Colombia
– Alkarama (Movimiento de Mujeres Palestinas), Spain
– Raíces (Grupo cultural raíces de Guasá), Ecuador
– Comisión Étnica para la Paz y la Defensa de los Derechos Territoriales, Colombia
– International People‘s Assembly
– Arab American Civic Council
– Movimiento de Pequeños Agricultores, MPA Brazil
– Federación Nacional de Cooperativas Agropecuarias (FENACOA), Colombia
– Asociación Colombiana de Economistas Negras – Mano Cambiada
– Sindicato Aeroespacial SP, Brazil
– The Literacy Project, USA
– Sindicato na Televisão, Brazil
– JUST (International Movement for a Just World), Malaysia
– MLN – Movement for Liberation from Nakba, Malaysia
– JUST-IS Interfaith Solidarity for Justice and against Militarism, Pakistan
– Center for the Study of Islam and Decoloniality, Pakistan
– Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
– New York Peace Council
– Law for Palestine
– Palestinian Feminist Collective
– CAGE International
– Vocesenlucha – Comunicación Popular, Spain/Latin America
– Asociación Alnakba, Venezuela
– Mujeres por la Paz
– Sodepau Pais Valencia
– Jubileo Sur/Américas
– Acción Ecológica, Ecuador
– Instituto de Estudios Ecologistas del Tercer Mundo
– Nación Andaluza
– Tunisian National Bar Association
– Palestine Ceasefire Dayton, USA
– Red de Ambientalistas Comunitarios de El Salvador RACDES
– Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, Pakistan
– Congreso de los Pueblos, Colombia
– Marcha Mundial de las Mujeres Macronorte, Perú
– La Vía Campesina
– Jornada Continental por la Democracia y contra el Neoliberalismo
– Geneva Centre for Democracy & Human Rights
– One Justice – France
– International Jurists Union – Geneva
– Global Legal Alliance for Palestine
– Southern Anti-Racism Network
– Mütter gegen den Krieg Berlin-Brandenburg
– PeaceWorks Brunswick Maine, USA
– Trident Ploughshares
– Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK)
– Trade Justice Alliance, USA
– Movimiento por un mundo sin guerras y sin violencia (MSGySV)
– Veterans For Peace, Ireland Chapter
– Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos
– Observatorio por el Cierre de la Escuela de las Américas en Chile
– Jordanian Federation of Independent Trade Unions
– Asociación Americana de Juristas
– Engineers Association – Jerusalem Center (Palestine)
– Medical Association – Jerusalem Center (Palestine)
– Palestinian Dental Association (Palestine)
– Pharmacists Association – Jerusalem Center (Palestine)
– Palestinian Nursery and Midwifery Association (Palestine)
– Agricultural Engineers Association – Jerusalem Center (Palestine)
– Palestinian Bar Association (Palestine)
– Palestinian Contractors Union (Palestine)
– Veterinarians Syndicate – Jerusalem Center (Palestine)
– Palestinian Union of Psychologists and Social Workers (Palestine)
– Sínodo luterano salvadoreño
– Green Mountain Solidarity With Palestine
– Sahel fondation
– The International Commission for Supporting the Rights of the Palestinian People “Hashd”
– Rockland for Palestine
– University Network for Human Rights
– Charlottetown Mutual Aid
– Rede Jubileu Sul Brasil
– Movimiento Estudiantil Cristiano de Cuba
– Colectivo Voces Ecológicas COVEC, Panamá
– National Network on Cuba, USA
– Public Intellectuals for Social and Spare Change, USA
– National Lawyers Guild – St. Louis Chapter
– North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, USA
– The Peace Pentagon / Oracle Institute, USA
– Our Revolution – North Dakota, USA
– Peace Action Montgomery, USA
– United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), USA
– All-African People‘s Revolutionary Party
– Friends of the Congo
– Socialist Action USA
– The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
– Oil and Gas Action Network, USA
– Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights
– Mom vision prodeca foundation (MVPF), Senegal
– Pan-Afrikan Liberation Program, USA
– Suffolk University Students for Justice in Palestine, USA
– Black Radical Christians, USA
– Frente Antiimperialista Internacionalista, Spain
– Environmentalists Against War, USA
– Democratic Socialists of America – International Committee
– Georgia Human Rights Clinic, USA
– Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA), USA
– Cooperation Jackson, USA
– National Jericho Movement, USA
– Asociación Interpueblos Estado Español
– Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ), USA
– American Muslims for Palestine-Richmond VA Chapter, USA
– Peace Action of San Mateo County, USA
– Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), USA
– Friendship Office of the Americas
– HUMANITAS: The Africana Ethical Society
– Sankara Farm, USA
– Workers World Party, USA
– International Action Center
– The Universal Ethician Church
– Middle East Justice and Peace Group of Central Pennsylvania, USA
– Healthcare Workers 4 Palestine
– Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition
– Doctors Against Genocide
– Seattle Anti-War Coalition
– Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice
– Ubuntu Freedom
– Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa, New Zealand
– Jewish Voice for Peace — Mid-Hudson Valley, USA
– Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste
– Jisoor
– Spokane Veterans For Peace #035
– Rumbo a Gaza-Freedom Flotilla Coalition
– Students for Justice in Palestine at UChicago, USA
– International Institute for Human Rights, Environment and Development (INHURED International), Nepal
– Egyptian foundation for advancement of the childhood conditions
– Arab Women Organization of Jordan
– Women Helping Women Network, Jordan
– Palestine Institute for National Security Research, Palestine
– London Ontario Activism, Canada
– Palestinian Working Woman Society for Development PWWSD, Palestine
– Palestinian Labor Struggle Union
– Tunisian General Labor Union UGTT
– Jerusalem Legal Aid Center
– Bahrain Human Rights Society
– The Civil Commission for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Rule of Law „ISTIQLAL“, Palestine
– Comité de Vigilance pour la Démocratie en Tunisie, Tunisia
– Inminds Human Rights Group, UK
– Resistance Kitchen, UK
– The Palestinian Federation of Women‘s Action Committee, Palestine
– Lebanese Council of Women
– Roots Society for Citizen Right, Jordan
– Damascus Center for Theoretical and Civil Rights, Syria
– Women’s Studies Centre, Palestine
– The Canadian Peoples‘ Union
– Solidarité Laïque/Méditerranée. Tunisie
– Al Baraem Association for Charitable Work, Lebanon
– Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East (Germany)
– Rencontres Marx, France
– Women‘s International League for Peace and Freedom – International
– The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession
– AlgeriaRevolt
– Algeria Solidarity Campaign
– Workers in the Informal Economy Network Uganda
– U.S. Peace Council
– Secure Scotland
– Peace People, Ireland
– Aufstehen, Germany
– Healthcare Workers 4 Palestine South Africa
– Movement for Freedom and Democracy in Palestine, Palestine
– Mother‘s School Society, Palestine
– Arab Commission for Human Rights
– Association of Women’s Action, Palestine
– HOPE (Health Over Profit for Everyone) in the Midwest, USA
– Bronx Anti War Coalition, USA
– Citizens International, Malaysia
– Jewish Network for Palestine (UK)
– SE London Friends Of Palestine, UK
– Voices for Justice in Palestine, USA
The letter was released days after South Africa filed its claim, asking the ICJ to declare that Israel has breached its obligations under the Genocide Convention, to which it is a party.
The death toll in Gaza has reached at least 22,313, with at least 57,296 people wounded and thousands feared dead under rubble.
By the 1920s, Lemkin was formulating the concepts and laws that were articulated in his best-known book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe (1944). His unpublished manuscripts reveal that he saw colonialism as an integral part of a world history of genocide.
Those manuscripts covered an extremely wide range of cases where European colonial powers were responsible for mass killing, from the Spanish conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century and the slaughter of indigenous peoples in Australia and New Zealand to the German massacre of the Hereros in Namibia a few decades earlier.
(Today, 4:47 pm)
“In recent days I’ve heard a question: Will Israel return to fighting after this stage of returning our hostages is over? My response is an unequivocal yes,” the premier says. “There is no way we won’t return to fighting until the end.”
(Nov. 28, 2023)
The statements are the Biden administration’s strongest warning to Israeli officials to date about the next phase of their military operation. For weeks, the White House has been careful to say it does not dictate how Israel conducts its military operations, but President Biden and senior members of his staff have grown more vocal as the humanitarian crisis has unfolded.
They also come as the administration officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic issues, said they were ramping up humanitarian aid during the cease-fire that took effect last week, and expressed optimism that aid could continue even when fighting resumed.
(Today, 5:25 pm)
“In support of hostage recovery efforts, the US is conducting unarmed UAV flights over Gaza, as well as providing advice and assistance to support our Israeli partner as they work on their hostage recovery efforts,” Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder says in a statement.
(Oct 25, 2023)
At least 22 people were killed and dozens more injured after a gunman opened fire at multiple locations in Lewiston, Maine.
(today)
(Sept. 1, 2023)
The State Department said U.S. diplomats in Saudi Arabia had first heard reports of a dramatic increase in lethal violence against migrants and asylum seekers by that nation’s border forces in the summer of last year and had immediately asked officials at “high levels” of the Saudi government to investigate.
The department made the disclosure in a statement on Thursday night to The New York Times in response to questions posed early this week about the U.S. government’s knowledge of the reported violence and its working relationship with Saudi Arabia’s border forces.
Iran did not provide a reason for launching the drill, though such snap exercises have happened in the past.
(July 14, 2023)
Speaking to Pentagon reporters, the official said the U.S. will send F-16 fighter jets to the Gulf region this weekend to augment the A-10 attack aircraft that have been patrolling there for more than a week. The move comes after Iran tried to seize two oil tankers near the strait last week, opening fire on one of them.
(June 15, 2023)
But it may well be a Pyrrhic victory, writes @noa_landau
24.02.2014 – 00:01 Uhr
Ein böser Verdacht wabert durchs Berliner Regierungsviertel: Hat das Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) im Fall Edathy wichtige Hinweise über zwei Jahre hinweg bewusst ignoriert?
(24.02.2014)
19. Februar, Sitzung des Innenausschusses. Anhörung von Jörg Ziercke. Die Herren Abgeordneten – ich will diese honorigen Herrschaften jetzt lieber nicht namentlich erwähnen, sie müssten mittlerweile irgendwo in Grund und Boden versunken sein – kommen also aus dem Walhalla des Parlamentarismus heraus, pflanzen sich vor die Kameras und machen in Opposition. Reden tun sie dabei wie immer. Sagen tun sie nichts. Keine Information. Man habe auf Granit gebissen. Da könne man eben nichts machen. Aber man werde dranbleiben. Ganz bestimmt.
Enter Jörg Ziercke. Elvis has left the building, Ladies and Gentlemen. Und jetzt noch, vor lauter Güte, eine kleine Nachaufführung vor den KollegInnen der Presseschauspieler.
Nach dem Statement des seit 2004 amtierenden B.K.A.-Präsidenten warte ich ab. Vielleicht macht ja irgendjemand irgendwas. Vielleicht hat ja jemand zugehört. Jemand muss es doch gemerkt haben. Es kann hier doch nicht jeder entweder zu dumm oder gekauft sein.
Aber nein. Wieder nichts. Diesmal warte ich nicht bis zum nächsten Tag. (19.02.2014, Ziercke: Bundeskriminalamt saß zwei Jahre auf Edathys Namen)
Fünf Tage später. Ja, fünf. Die Mutigsten und Schlauesten sind ja bekanntlich Partei-Funktionäre in diesem Land, weil sie in der Lage sind sich ein “Bild” zu machen.
Wer auch immer irgendwann einmal über diese Zeit und diese Tage in dieser Republik erzählen wird – oder muss – er hat mein Mitgefühl.
Das war´s dann aber auch schon.
A police officer was at a petrol station when they „heard a noise and noticed a car upside down, and several people lying on the floor“, according to a statement.
Officers approached and „neutralized the driver and killed him“ after seeing he was reaching for a weapon.
Police said a car rammed into a group of people near a popular seaside park before flipping over.
A 30-year-old man from Italy was killed and four other people, including a 17-year-old, are receiving medical treatment for mild to moderate injuries, the rescue service said.
Police said they shot the driver of the car. The driver‘s condition is unknown at the moment.
Israeli media also cited Mr Revivi as saying that the sisters‘ father had been driving ahead of them in another car when theirs was attacked. He reportedly turned around and arrived at the scene to find his wife and daughters being treated by paramedics.
The head of the Israeli military‘s Central Command, which oversees the West Bank, called it an „extremely severe terrorist attack“ and promised that its troops knew how to find those responsible.
Israel‘s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Saturday followed in the footsteps of other coalition members in calling on the government to cease the process of pushing through with the controversial judicial overhaul legislation, and urged that all parties „sit and talk“ as hundreds of thousands of protestors took to the streets nationwide.
(25.03.2023)
Israel’s army Chief of Staff General Herzi Halevi has reportedly warned his government that the military could possibly reduce the scope of operations due to reservists refusing to report for duty in protest of the controversial judicial overhaul.
(Friday 17 March 2023)
In a “significant escalation” of a dispute over jobs, pay and conditions, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union says more than 1,000 members will walk out at all seven offices in England, Wales and Scotland from 3 April to 5 May. Staff at the Passport Office in Belfast may join the strike later.
The union says the walkout will have a “significant impact” on the delivery of passports as the summer approaches.
(Friday 17 March 2023)
The news follows the breakthrough in the NHS dispute on Thursday, with union leaders representing thousands of nurses, ambulance crews and other health workers agreeing to suspend further strikes while ballots are held on a new pay offer.
(17 Mar 2023)
On Friday night the Department of Health and Social Care said the British Medical Association had agreed to enter negotiations on the same terms as unions representing nurses, ambulance staff and other NHS workers in talks that concluded this week.