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A passenger was forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight by law enforcement on Sunday after refusing to give up his seat. According to a person who says they were on the flight, the airline needed room on the overbooked aircraft to reposition crew for another flight. But when it couldn't find enough volunteers, even after offering $800, the airline selected the man, who is a doctor, and several other passengers to deplane. United Airlines said: "Flight 3411 from Chicago to...

By Crystal Wells, Communications Officer International Medical Corps In January, Iraqi Security Forces reclaimed the eastern half of Mosul—Iraq’s second largest city—from the Islamic State, or ISIL. Today, communities on the east side of the Tigris River, which snakes through the centre of Mosul, are crawling back to life after two years of brutal ISIL rule. But the deep scars of ISIL’s long-held grip on the city and the conflict are everywhere. For health clinics, ISIL control rendered many unable...

The World's first crowdfunded hospital will open tomorrow in Aleppo. Hope Hospital, which was funded by 4,800 single donations from people all over the world, will open to treat the children of Aleppo sending a  strong message of solidarity to the Syrian doctors (the Independent Doctors Association) who were rebuilding this children’s hospital for the seventh time after the six previous buildings had been bombed out of action. The convoy departed from Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in London on December...

A British freedom fighter has documented his bloody stint spent fighting so-called Islamic State in a photo diary. University student Josh Walker, 26, wanted to fight for “a better world” so lied to his parents to fly over to the Middle East and join up with The People's Protection Units better known as YPG. His primary role was to translate and help other volunteers integrate into the militia forces, made up of Kurdish, Arabs, Western volunteers and the Syriac Military...

Warning: this is what it looks like when irony dies. And it's not pretty. Outlining the reasons the SNP are calling for another Scottish independence referendum now that Scotland faces the threat of being dragged out of the European single market as well as out of the EU, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon explained: "Our precious union of nations is the most successful that the world has ever seen... We've worked together, we've prospered together, we fought wars together. And we have a bright future.... We should...

Kyla Mandel Editor of Desmog UK has been investigating the hidden contriving between shady fossil fuel lobbyists, prominent climate deniers, secretive think tanks, false news propagandists and government figures to subvert the unprecedented global consensus to tackle climate change of the Paris Agreement signed last year to achieve a crucial reduction in global warming. Let’s face it, Donald Trump could pull out of the Paris climate deal any day now and the UK could soon be left without any European environmental regulation...

The President of the United States wields huge influence on the economic fate of the U.S. and the economic fate of the rest of the world to a large extent. The direct, vocal, unfiltered, and controversial nature of President Donald Trump also amplifies the influence of the POTUS of the economic and geopolitical fate of the world. Many Wall Street experts had predicted that the U.S. economy would be plunged into chaos if Trump becomes president. The fears of increased...

Yes you read the right, and it isn’t fake news, it is one of the most disturbing articles I have ever put together. It appears the world, with the US taking the lead, President Trump pushing the agenda, is regressing to the past, the far distant past. Are we going back to a brutal time nobody can even recall, possibly because it has never been so bad? A new law has just been signed off in Akansas, US, that will...

The central European country has decided that there will be a ban on Muslim face veils. The ruling is part of a raft of new measures, which forms part of the “integration law,” which has been agreed by the country’s ruling coalition parties. It is currently a draft law, but the ban is due to come into force before the next parliamentary vote in 2018. The ban applies to the burka and niqab that cover the entire face or only...