A 19-year-old man had been cycling long Freemantle Grove, Hartlepool, on Saturday, July 9, when a grey van with three men inside deliberately swerved towards the teenager. The dangerous move caused the cyclist to move out of the way as he travelled towards Seaton Lane between 4pm and 4.10pm. The trio inside the van then …
Incidents of anti-Muslim abuse up by 326% in 2015
Monitoring group’s report paints picture of an explosion of anti-Muslim hate, with women disproportionately targeted by mostly teen perpetrators. Incidents of anti-Muslim abuse and attacks in public areas of the UK rose by 326% in 2015, with women disproportionately targeted by mostly teenage perpetrators, according to a new report from the monitoring group Tell MAMA. …
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Radical right wing AfD removes foreigner’s face from poster campaign.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD), whose leader said earlier this year that German police should be ready to shoot migrants to prevent them entering the country illegally, was founded three years ago upon a Eurosceptic message. A recruitment poster for the AfD in the southern state of Baden-Württemberg was part of a campaign to bring …
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FoI reveals only 5% of British air strikes in Iraq and Syria are pre-planned
A Freedom of Information request by Drone Wars UK has revealed that only 5% of British air strikes in Iraq and Syria are pre-planned.
A pregnant Muslim woman lost her unborn baby after being kicked in a racist attack in UK
A pregnant Muslim woman lost her baby after being kicked in the stomach in a “devastating” racist attack. The woman, 34 , was shopping in a Co-op near Milton Keynes when a man launched a tirade of racist abuse at her. He then followed her to her car before kicking her hard in the stomach. …
Israel approves 250 new homes’ construction in the occupied West Bank
Israeli authorities on Wednesday approved construction of new Jewish settlement units in the West Bank while “retroactively” approving 178 housing units that have already been built in the occupied territory, Israeli media reported. The Israeli-civil administration’s supreme committee approved 250 new homes in the Jewish-only Elkana settlement in the occupied West Bank. An additional 50 …
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NGO records 74,607 forced disappearances in Syria’s 5-year-long civil war
A report released on the International Day of the Disappeared suggests that more than 74,000 people disappeared at the hands of warring parties in Syria since March 2011, with their fates unknown to their families and relatives. The Syrian Network of Human Rights (SNHR) report said out of the total 74,607 people, 71,533 ‘disappeared’ in …
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Israeli government shuts another Palestinian radio station for allegedly ‘promoting violence’
Israeli authorities have shut down a Palestinian radio station in the Israeli-occupied West Bank over “incitement” to violence, the army said Wednesday, the latest in a series of such raids. The overnight operation in Dura near Hebron led to five arrests, according to the Israeli army. Palestinian police confirmed the detentions and said one of …
Racist and islamophobic shares in Trump’s staff online posts
Donald Trump’s paid campaign staffers have declared on their personal social media accounts that Muslims are unfit to be American citizens, ridiculed Mexican accents, called for Secretary of State John Kerry’s death by hanging and stated their readiness for a possible civil war, according to a review of their postings by The Associated Press. The …
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UN pays tens of millions to Assad regime under Syria aid programme
The UN has awarded contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to people closely associated with the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, as part of an aid programme that critics fear is increasingly at the whim of the government in Damascus. Businessmen whose companies are under US and EU sanctions have been paid substantial sums by …
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