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Editorial

Hands off our postal service

A government guided by common sense would respond to news that publicly owned Royal Mail has increased profits to £403 million by scrapping plans to flog off the service.

Features

Trade unionists will keep fighting for Wales

by Amarjite Singh

Wales TUC president sets out the achievements of Welsh workers over the past year - and looks to the battles ahead

Dirty wars

by Ian Sinclair

Interview with Jeremy Scahill, author of a chilling new exposé of the US's worldwide war without end

World

New Yorkers march against gay killing

Tuesday 21 May 2013

Thousands of people marched through the streets of Manhattan on Monday to protest against the killing of gay man Mark Carson in Greenwich Village on Saturday.

Senate takes a bite out of Apple over £5.9bn tax dodge

Tuesday 21 May 2013

US computer giant Apple avoids paying billions of dollars in US income taxes, a Senate investigation declared on Monday.

North Korea frees Chinese fishermen after two weeks

Tuesday 21 May 2013

North Korea released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat today after the seizure had been the subject of diplomatic exchanges between the two governments.

Tornado flattens Oklahoma town killing at least 24

Tuesday 21 May 2013

A monstrous tornado at least half a mile wide roared through Oklahoma City's suburbs on Monday, flattening entire neighbourhoods and destroying a primary school.

President vows to tackle mine safety as death toll at Grasberg reaches 21

Tuesday 21 May 2013

Indonesian rescuers recovered another four bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant US-owned gold and copper mine bringing the confirmed death toll to 21, mine officials said today.

Court overturns dictator's landmark genocide ruling

Tuesday 21 May 2013

Guatemala's highest court overturned a genocide conviction against former dictator Efrain Rios Montt on Monday.

Philippines protest Chinese warship in disputed waters

Tuesday 21 May 2013

Philippines officials said today that they had protested to China over the presence of a warship, two surveillance vessels and fishing boats off a shoal occupied by its army in the disputed Spratly Islands.

200 youths riot in poor Stockholm suburb

Tuesday 21 May 2013

Police arrested four people during a second day of unrest in the Stockholm suburb of Husby.

World news in brief

Tuesday 21 May 2013

US finally accepts countries' names

India and China vow to sort out border

Monday 20 May 2013

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today that he had agreed with his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang to settle a long-running border row, pledging his commitment to "peace and tranquility.