Portway handling workers in Portugal set to continue strike
Workers have demanded that the owners of Portway de Handling de Portugal company with the agreement signed in 2016 to ‘unfreeze’ workers’ careers
US conducts airstrikes on Kataib Hezbollah targets in Syria and Iraq
Over 30 militia fighters were killed and 55 others injured in the US strikes which were a response to a rocket attack in which one US civilian contractor was killed
Saudi-led coalition’s artillery shelling kills 17 in Yemen
This is the third attack by the Saudi-led coalition in just over a month targeting the same locality, and has invited UN condemnation. The coalition’s ongoing brutal military campaign has killed more than 100,000 people in Yemen since 2015
Protesters at Mauna Kea reopen Access Road after 5 months
After the standing down of police forces and clearing of the Access Road on a temporary basis, protesters plans to campaign across Hawaii and take the matter to the state legislators
Turkey announces troop deployment in Libya
The move is being seen as part of Turkey’s attempts to consolidate its position as a regional hegemon. The actual deployment of troops will take place once the Turkish parliament ratifies the decision
Six social leaders assassinated in past week in Colombia
The genocide against Colombia’s social leaders, human rights defenders and ex-combatants continues as six of them were violently assassinated in the past one week
Turkish Communists hold gatherings in Istanbul and Izmir
The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) organized events over two days, December 22-23, in preparation for the upcoming struggles in the new year
Iraq’s parliament yields to protesters’ demand, approves new electoral law
As per the new law, independent candidates have a much better chance of being elected to parliament. A law of this kind was one of the key demands of the protesters who have been on the streets since October 1