Intense airstrikes on Aleppo kill dozens

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Civil Defence’s headquarter have been hit in Aleppo, putting further pressure onto their already over-stretched resources. Photographer: Basem Ayoubi/Images Live

Aleppo, Syria – 24th September 2016: Tens of dozens of civilians have been killed and injured today since early morning during an intense air …

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Guantanamo Diary author remembered in protest, London, UK

June 2nd 2016, London, UK. Today's monthly 'Shut Guantanamo' protest at the US Embassy in London featured readings from the heavily redacted best-selling 'Guantanamo Diary' by Mauritanian prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi, arrested following an identity mistake in 2002 and subjected to savage beatings, death threats and sexual humiliation in Guantanamo detailed in his 2005 book. Still held in Guantanamo, his case comes up for review today. He has not yet been allowed to read his own book. Peter Marshall / ImagesLive

London, UK, June 2nd 2016. Today’s monthly ‘Shut Guantanamo’ protest at the US Embassy in London featured readings from the heavily redacted best-selling ‘Guantanamo Diary’ by Mauritanian prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi, arrested following an identity mistake in 2002 and subjected to savage beatings, death threats …

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Environmental activists march backwards in protest

London, May 8 2016: Hundreds of environmental activists and campaigners deeply concerned at the UK government's poor record on tackling global warming and its worrying support for environmentally damaging hydraulic fracture extraction (Fracking), held a "Going Backwards on Climate Change" protest which started on Trafalgar Square and saw the protesters marching backwards down Whitehall, stopping off at the Dept for Energy & Climate Change, Downing street and the Dept of Health to listen to speeches from campaigners, climate change NGOs and renewable energy companies.

The speakers included Dame Vivienne Westwood, Sheila Menon (one of the 'Plane Stupid' campaign group who was recently spared prison following a trespass at Heathrow airport where they blocked a runway, causing 120 flights to be diverted), and Green Party leader Natalie Bennett. 

Organised by Campaign Against Climate Change, groups participating included Fuel Poverty Action, Frack Off, Solar trade Association, Talk Fracking, Plane Stupid, HACAN (Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise), ClientEarth, Time to Cycle and Friends of the Earth.

London, UK. 8 May,  2016: Hundreds of environmental activists and campaigners deeply concerned at the UK government’s poor record on tackling global warming and its worrying support for environmentally damaging hydraulic fracture extraction (Fracking), held a ‘Going Backwards on Climate Change’ protest. The protest started 

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