Threads, a BBC drama-doc, first aired in September 1984, but, as the last two years have shown, the threat of nuclear war is as real now as it ever was
War and Conflict
On Tuesday, three more countries ratified the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It wasn't widely reported in the media
'It may be that Israel was able to believe that pressure on the ICC was working and that its eight years of impunity from international law since 2014 would continue'
Palestine Solidarity Campaign hits out at 'unacceptable' orders from police to change protest times and routes at late notice
The Pacifist group Peace Pledge Union and its associated peace education charity argue that its advert was “in no way polemical”.
Cuts to the UN aid agency's budget in the aftermath of the reports were estimated to have cost it half a billion dollars in crucial emergency funds
During the ongoing war in Ukraine, Russia's prized fleet has been decimated, with one-third of its naval vessels either sunk or damaged
The international de-mining organisation, HALO, estimates that up to two million landmines may have been laid across Ukraine since February 2022 – the explosive devices set up as traps to injure and kill anyone who unwittingly triggers them
'Netanyahu is really the biggest danger to the state of Israel'
An appeal, backed by prospective Labour MPs and members of the Trade Union Movement, has identified a number of key changes it wants a Starmer-led government to make to ensure that Ukraine wins the war