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Colombia’s Petro declares rigged presidential election invalid

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Colombia’s Petro declares rigged presidential election invalid

Colombia’s left-wing president Gustavo Petro has declared the country’s recent presidential election illegitimate and de-recognised the election of far-right, US-allied Abelardo de la Espriella. De la Espriella has responded by saying that he is cancelling ‘transition arrangements. In June 2026, Petro condemned the hacking and tampering by Israeli and US organisations in voting and tally processes that were run by foreign ‘cybersecurity’ companies. He has reaffirmed that De la Espriella “did not win the elections”. De la Espriella is an eager supporter of Israel. Calling for the Colombian people to gather and march on the country’s 20 July Independence Day in…

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US attacks Iran less than a week after blocking extra Epstein file release

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US attacks Iran less than a week after blocking extra Epstein file release

The US has recommenced its bombing of Iran — less than a week after Trump’s ‘justice’ department (DOJ) blocked a court-ordered release of further Epstein files. Epstein revelations, or Trump’s attempts to avoid them, have been so synchronised with the US-Israel war on Iran that it has been dubbed “Operation Epstein Distraction”. The attacks breach the US’s commitments under its ‘Memorandum of Understanding‘ with Iran. US protecting the guilty A US judge had ordered the Trump regime to release files no later than 2 July, along with the identities and email addresses of individuals the DOJ had unlawfully redacted. Under legislation…

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Police tell immunocompromised protesters wearing masks ‘get arrested and plead after’

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Police tell immunocompromised protesters wearing masks ‘get arrested and plead after’

Police have told a campaign group for the families of people suffering a reduced immune system that they will be prosecuted for wearing masks at protests. The police also told them they will have to use their health issues in court as part of their defence. The Clinically Vulnerable Families (CVF) group played a major role in the Covid inquiry and represents people who could become seriously ill, or even die, from infections most of us would shrug off. Immunocompromised people wear masks in public as a defence against such infections. But the Police and Crime Act Section 157 criminalises the…

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“Overturn this” — Belgian football team mocks Trump and US

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“Overturn this” — Belgian football team mocks Trump and US

The Belgian football team has ‘cooked’ Donald Trump and the US on social media. Trump and craven FIFA president Gianni Infantino had scandalised the sporting world by arbitrarily overturning US striker Folarin Balogun’s suspension for his red card against Bosnia. But with most of the world cheering it on, a clearly fired-up Belgium hammered the US 4-1. “Overturn this” Belgium’s fourth goal was scored by veteran forward Romelu Lukaku. Then the official Belgian team account on X used Lukaku’s celebration in the ‘cooking’ recipe to mock the orange one and his FIFA lackey: The Belgium National Team’s official Twitter account just…

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Cops in unmarked car stop jogger with Palestine flag for ‘facial recognition’

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Cops in unmarked car stop jogger with Palestine flag for ‘facial recognition’

Two Essex police officers in an unmarked car have stopped a jogger in or near Southend on Sea for carrying a Palestine flag. The stop is just the latest in a string of incidents of police harassing or even arresting people protesting peacefully against genocide. Journalist and editor at the Grayzone, Wyatt Reed, published to X the video capturing these moments, first shared by Palestine Pulse. The jogger keeps his cool, records the incident and uses the opportunity to explain that he is upset about Britain’s collusion in Israel’s murder of Palestinian children. The police captured in the recording avoid saying…

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Exclusive: disgusted Your Party exec members call no-confidence vote over suspensions

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Exclusive: disgusted Your Party exec members call no-confidence vote over suspensions

Outraged members of Your Party’s elected executive (CEC) have called for a no-confidence vote in the CEC’s chair and secretary. It is clear that committee members are outraged over the chair’s move to suspend three well-known members last week. Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Solma Ahmed and Mel Mullins were suspended for attending a socialist conference – even though Wimborne-Idrissi hadn’t attended. Your Party: more revelations In an email leaked to the Canary, one exec member wrote to fellow CEC members: Dear CEC members It is with huge regret that I write this email. But I feel strongly that it is needed. I have…

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Prince Andrew: ‘No evidence’ of Pizza Express visit

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Prince Andrew: ‘No evidence’ of Pizza Express visit

Investigations by the BBC and Pizza Express have found “no evidence” that Prince Andrew visited the chain’s Woking branch. In his notorious 2019 BBC interview, Andrew claimed he couldn’t have had sex with Epstein victim, Virginia Giuffre, on 10 March 2001, as she alleged, as he had been at Pizza Express. By contrast, witness Shukri Walker was prepared to give sworn evidence that she saw Giuffre with the then-prince in a London nightclub. Andrew eventually paid Giuffre an estimated £12 million to settle out of court. Prince Andrew’s claims interrogated In January, the US government released further files from the investigation into…

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Another Sharon Graham die-hard asks Unite members to vote for her challenger

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Another Sharon Graham die-hard asks Unite members to vote for her challenger

I now need to put right my wrong. These are the words of long-time Unite executive member and union convenor, Steve Hibbert, in a video he has published for the union’s general secretary election. Hibbert campaigned in 2021 for Sharon Graham to become Unite’s general secretary. Now, like fellow former-diehard Dave Williams, he wants union members to support her challenger, Simon Dubbins. Hibbert cites “grave concerns at the actions taken by the union under Sharon” and the “toxic” environment she (and her husband) have created. https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Hibbert-Unite-Subbed-hb.mp4 Unite exec member’s video could have been longer Hibbert’s succinct video could have been far,…

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Israel accused of ‘stealing’ Ben & Jerry’s ice cream

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Israel accused of ‘stealing’ Ben & Jerry’s ice cream

Israel and Unilever reportedly collaborated in order to bypass a boycott call by the anti-genocide founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenstein called for an end to the sale of their products in Israel. Cohen was even arrested after disrupting a US Senate sitting to demand action to protect Palestinian children. But In June 2026, the official ‘Israel’ X account posted (now deleted) a boast about a new flavour by the brand launching in Israel. The Israeli Haaretz newspaper posted about the ‘milk and honey’ flavour, complete with chocolate ‘stars of David’: Did Ben and Jerry’s just drop…

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“They brought me here to kill me” — abducted Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya

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“They brought me here to kill me” — abducted Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya

Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, the hospital director abducted from Gaza in 2024 by the Israeli occupation, faces an immediate risk to his life. The Physicians for Human Rights (PHRI) group has issued a warning about the threat after Abu Safiya’s lawyer visited him in the Nitzan prison where he is detained indefinitely without charge. Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya — Continual torture Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya has suffered constant beatings and torture by his captors. During the latest lawyer visit, the doctor was shackled, bore fresh injuries to his head, face and neck and was struggling to breathe or speak. His condition…

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EU approves law to prosecute anyone who shares video from Russia’s RT

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EU approves law to prosecute anyone who shares video from Russia’s RT

The European Union (EU)’s ‘Court of Justice’ has authorised the criminal prosecution of anyone who publicly shares videos by Russia‘s RT. The ultra-Orwellian move makes no distinction whether what the video says is true. It makes no exemption for journalists. EU citizens can be jailed for, as well-known commentator Arnaud Bertrand notes, sharing an RT video saying the sky is blue: Think about the absurdity of it: if RT publishes a video saying the sky is blue and you share it on a publicly accessible website in the EU, you’d fall within the scope of this ruling, making you liable to criminal…

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Attack on independent media escalates (again) — YouTube will have to prioritise ‘MSM’

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Attack on independent media escalates (again) — YouTube will have to prioritise ‘MSM’

The Starmer regime is looking to force YouTube and other online media platforms to force-feed users with government-approved media and make it harder to find independent sources. This is a naked escalation in his war on information the state does not like. YouTube is warning creators that the planned new rules will: include mandatory changes to how content is discovered on YouTube. Exactly what the regime is planning to promote at the cost of independent sources is made clear by the consultation page on the government website: This includes: • interventions to support an informed society. For example, requiring social media…

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Breaking: “You can’t hide” — Dubbins challenges Graham to Unite GS debate

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Breaking: “You can’t hide” — Dubbins challenges Graham to Unite GS debate

Unite general secretary election challenger Simon Dubbins has publicly challenged incumbent Sharon Graham to stop hiding from him and debate him directly. The explosive challenge comes after Graham repeatedly sent proxies rather than face Dubbins in person, to the disgust of members — even close allies. While Dubbins attended every hustings to which he was invited, according to Unite insiders Graham didn’t attend a single hustings: As a result, Dubbins gained big wins in huge Unite sectors Graham would previously have considered sewn up tightly, including defence, air travel and construction. Dubbins is also set to win Unite’s ‘Community’ section —…

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Exclusive: YP suspends Wimborne-Idrissi — for event she didn’t attend

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Exclusive: YP suspends Wimborne-Idrissi — for event she didn’t attend

Your Party (YP) has suspended three members of its executive committee — for attending a socialist event. Well-known Jewish left-winger Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Essex’s Solma Ahmed and the RMT’s Mel Mullins were all suspended for participating in a Socialist Federation conference: YP got it wrong, but that’s not the point But at least one of those suspended wasn’t even at the event. And Wimborne-Idrissi told Skwawkbox that even if she had been, it wouldn’t justify Corbyn’s new party behaving like the authoritarian Labour party: I wasn’t even at it! But even if I had joined in to listen to what was being…

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Wimbledon: Zeynep Sönmez’s watermelon symbol ‘below threshold’ for ban

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Wimbledon: Zeynep Sönmez’s watermelon symbol ‘below threshold’ for ban

The Wimbledon tennis tournament has surprisingly backed Turkish tennis player Zeynep Sönmez’s stand of solidarity with Gaza. Yet the gesture still exposes the establishment’s cowardice in the face of Israel lobby arrogance. Sönmez used a watermelon-design ‘string dampener’ to get around the tournament’s ban on watermelon pins. Wimbledon — Deadly double standard Sönmez, ranked 51 in global women’s tennis and Turkey’s highest-ever ranked women’s player, said that she had switched to the dampener specifically because tournaments banned Palestine pins. She also accused organisers of double standards because pins supporting (nazi-riddled) Ukraine are not banned: I used to wear a pin. Tournaments…

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US officials: Israel planned to murder Iranian negotiators during peace talks

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US officials: Israel planned to murder Iranian negotiators during peace talks

US officials have said that Israel was planning to murder key Iranian negotiators during US-initiated talks in an attempt to sabotage any peace. Israel attempted to murder Palestinian peace negotiators in Qatar in 2025 but missed. The occupation did murder senior negotiator Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in 2024 to end potential talks for an end to Israel’s Gaza genocide. Israel lobbied the US in May 2026 to murder one of its targets and the US and Israel have slaughtered senior officials and their families since the latest war began. So the US officials’ assessment is entirely credible. Israel plan thwarted Israel’s…

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CPJ reverses decision to discount slain Gaza journalists after global outrage

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CPJ reverses decision to discount slain Gaza journalists after global outrage

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reportedly reversed its decision to delete Gaza journalists from its database of murdered reporters. The decision came after the CPJ board overruled its chair Jacob Weisberg, considered the main driver of the original change. Weisberg, a vocal supporter of Israel appointed as chair in 2023, has argued against boycotts of the apartheid colony and described the BDS movement as “repellent”. He described supporters of BDS — the Palestinian ‘boycott, divestment and sanctions’ campaign against the occupier — as “sheeplike, liberal opinion”. CPJ — Who counts? The CPJ had changed its criteria of who counts…

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EU hiding 17 secret Gaza documents into infrastructure projects

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EU hiding 17 secret Gaza documents into infrastructure projects

The European Commission has claimed there is “no public interest” in releasing seventeen reports on infrastructure projects the EU has funded in Gaza. The reports would be likely to confirm Israel’s wholesale destruction of basic civilian infrastructure and pressure the EU to end its continued collaboration with, and privileging of, the colony. It would also further strain the EU’s stubborn refusal to acknowledge Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Gaza: EU dodging genocide On the same day, a United Nations inquiry formally confirmed that Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza by deliberately murdering Palestinian children. The EU boasts that projects it funds…

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ICC changes voting rules to stitch up prosecutor Khan for US and Israel

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ICC changes voting rules to stitch up prosecutor Khan for US and Israel

The ruling body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has changed its voting rules in an apparent attempt to please the US and Israel and stitch up its chief prosecutor Karim Khan. Middle East Eye reported that: The executive body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has changed the voting process on the potential removal of Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan from a two-stage vote to a single vote in an apparent break with its own rules Effectively, the change lowers the threshold for the removal of Khan as prosecutor. ICC retributive manoeuvres Israel and the US have pressured and manoeuvred for Khan’s dismissal ever…

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Punk rap duo Vylan sues BBC for Glastonbury smears

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Punk rap duo Vylan sues BBC for Glastonbury smears

Punk rap duo Bob Vylan have announced they’re suing the BBC for making defamatory comments about them during their Glastonbury appearance. The duo were targeted by the UK state and Israel lobby for their ‘Death to the IDF’ chant at the festival. BBC slammed In a joint statement on their Instagram feeds, Bobby and Bobbie Vylan accused the BBC of committing libel them. They added that the broadcaster is betraying its publicly-funded purpose and collaborating in Israel’s genocide: We have decided to take legal action against the BBC. In the immediate aftermath of our performance at Glastonbury 2025, The BBC wasted…

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