More than 8,000 allegations have now been made by school pupils on a website gathering testimonies of sexual violence and abuse. “Rape culture” was a problem for all schools, said Soma Sara, founder of the Everyone’s Invited website. Many of the perpetrators are claimed to be at the same school or in the same social …
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A new “point-in-time” report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shows that homelessness increased significantly during the Trump administration. The report includes a detailed snapshot of the state of homelessness in the US in January of 2020—just before the COVID-19 pandemic set in—and compares it to figures from previous years. It stands …
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The Israeli army fired live ammunition on a Palestinian man, killing him and wounding his wife, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The man died “after sustaining head wounds from live fire in Bir Nabala (in the occupied West Bank) … and his wife suffered bullet wounds to her back,” the ministry said. The Palestinian …
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A threatening letter was sent to a mosque in the central Netherlands, the mosque said on Friday. The threatening letter contained Islamophobic and racist threats targeting Turkish and Moroccan communities in the central city of Almere, the Omar Ibn Al Khattab mosque said on social media. The mosque has been attacked three times in the …
France’s interior minister on Sunday condemned the defacing of the walls of a mosque in the western city of Rennes with Islamophobic graffiti, days before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “Attacks against Muslims are attacks against the [French] Republic,” said Gerald Darmanin during a visit to the mosque. Noting that President …
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The Assad regime used chemical weapons against its population in Saraqib, Syria in 2018, a global watchdog said on Monday. The report by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was prepared by the Investigation and Identification Team (IIT), whose first report on the use of chemical weapons was published in April 2020. …
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Four people were injured when a group of around 40 Armenians attacked a Turkish family in Saint-Die-Des-Vosges, France. The group broke into the family’s home in Kellerman district and assaulted them. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, one of the family members said that on Saturday, an Armenian hit the son from his cousin’s family with their …
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A University of Pennsylvania museum is vowing to return the remains of a black victim of a 1985 Philadelphia police bombing to relatives, amid backlash that they were used in an online college course. Penn Provost Wendell Pritchett and Penn Museum Director Christopher Woods apologized in a statement Wednesday to relatives of the victims from …
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A bomb ready to explode was found in the mailbox of the headquarters of the Swiss Turkish Community (STC), an umbrella organization of Turkish non-governmental organizations in Switzerland, with the PKK terror group a suspect, the head of the body said. “They placed the bomb in the STC mailbox between 13.30-14.00 yesterday. I immediately called …
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Paris prosecutors have they had asked judges to drop a case accusing senior members of the French armed forces of complicity in a massacre of Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The call to drop the 15-year-old case on Monday came after a major report in March over France’s role in the genocide. Survivors of …
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