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A Shell petrol station closure in Pimlico kicked off the 'OccupyOil' day of actions, targeting primarily the oil giant Shell, as part of a wider move to 'Occupy' pet...

A Palestinian family live in poor conditions in a small house in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The camp has one of the highest population densities in the world....

Palestinian Children play in front of their houses in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern area of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian Territories. 5th February 2012.

Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian reporter who worked with the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement in the Gaza Strip from 2008 until his death 2011, is remembered in graffiti ...

Dozens of Palestinians threw shoes, sticks and stones at the UN General-Secretary's convoy as it crossed into the Gaza Strip, protesting against Palestinians held in Israel's ...

Palestinian children sit beside a fire to warm themselves in the cold winter in their destroyed house, which was lost during the Israeli offensive on Gaza. Bait Lahiya, Palestinian Terr...

Members of the Canadian Auto Workers Union kept a watch over an assembled but yet to be painted locomotive manufactured at ElectroMotive after workers were locked out from the company a...

A Palestinian woman bakes bread over firewood inside her tent in one of the poorest regions of the Al-Zaiton neighbourhood during a cold winter night. Gaza City, Palestinian Territory. ...

After rumours about an upcoming chopping of several trees and the deconstruction of the main station, 200 protesters blocked the site. Many of them left the blockade after several order...

A Palestinian refugee children plays in one of the poorest regions in the Al-Zaiton neighbourhood, in the Gaza strip. Palestinian Territories. 29th January 2012

Disabled people and pensioners chained their wheelchairs together and blocked traffic at Oxford Circus in protest at the Governments Welfare Reform Bill. London, UK. 28th January 2012

Disability rights groups activists, supported by the UK Uncut, protested at Oxford Circus against the government’s Welfare Reform Bill. London, UK. 28th January 2012

Over 100 disabled activists shut down Regent Street on the north side of Oxford Circus in anger over cuts to services and benefits as a result of the proposed Welfare Reform Bill. Londo...

Fireworks are a shot off to celebrate the 68th anniversary of the battle that broke the Siege of Leningrad, which ended Nazi and Finnish control of the city. Russia. 27th January 2012

People lay a wreath and flowers at the Motherland monument at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery where most of the 900-day Nazi Leningrad siege victims were buried during World War II. St. Pet...

EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton speaks during a news conference at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Gaza City on 25 January 2012

Palestinians walk next to a mural painted by students showing a destroyed Israeli tank on a wall in central Gaza City, Palestine. 24th January 2012.

‘Bikes Alive’ organised a second go-slow protest in the Kings Cross area against the closing of crossings and the dangerous road junctions, which they feel TFL cater biasedly to the mot...

Palestinians warm themselves around a fire in their house on a cold winter evening in the Jabaliya Refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian Territory. 23rd January 2012

Kosovo police prevented up to 2,000 ethnic Albanian nationalist protesters from the nationalist Self-Determination movement from blocking border crossings with Serbia. Podujeve. 22nd Ja...