German police say a Muslim woman wearing a veil covering her entire face and body was attacked and verbally abused inside a Berlin store. Police said Tuesday a 28-year-old woman insulted the victim and ripped the veil of the burqa from her head. The attacker then followed the 54-year-old victim out of the store and …
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In practice, Israel cannot keep track of people deported to Rwanda or Uganda and find out how they are managing, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely admitted Monday — this, despite the state’s promise to do so. Hotovely’s remarks, made at a meeting of Likud members on Monday, were taped and broadcast Tuesday evening on Kan11 …
housands of African asylum seekers on Wednesday protested outside the Rwandan Embassy in Israel, calling on the African country not to cooperate with an Israeli plan to deport them. Israel has given thousands of migrants in the country until April 1 to accept an offer to leave for an unnamed African destination — widely known …
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Mumine Saliyeva cannot forget how masked, gun-toting pro-Russian security officers pounded on her door last October. They arrived to search her apartment and arrest her husband, Seiran Saliyev. “Every day, I check a hundred times whether the door is locked, I get up at night to check, check again before my morning prayer,” the fine-featured …
A French lawmaker Laetitia Avia has filed a formal complaint after receiving a letter with racist insults and death threats. She is a member of France’s National Assembly from President Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche movement. The letter said: “We’re not going to let a fat black swine from Africa meddle in the lives of the French. The …
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Two white police officers who led a black man by a rope down a street in Galveston, Tex., this month will not face criminal charges, the authorities said on Sunday, resolving one of two outside inquiries into the officers’ conduct. The Galveston Police Department had asked the Texas Ranger Division of the state’s Department of Public Safety …
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Germany has come a long way but it has not reached its goal, summarized Christian Hirte, the government’s commissioner for eastern German affairs, following the release of the annual reunification report. Ongoing geographic and economic factors continue to hinder attempts to bring eastern Germany’s economy into line with the west. This is in addition to continued regional skepticism as a key barrier to further …
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Protests have erupted in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro after an eight-year-old girl was allegedly killed by police, as the number of victims in operations by security forces continues to rise. Ágatha Vitória Sales Félix was with her mother in a van when she was shot in the back in a poor area on Friday. Residents …
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Racist and abusive language is “commonplace” online in Finland and on the rise in political discourse, a report by the Council of Europe has warned. Although the Nordic nation frequently tops international comparisons regarding happiness, gender equality and quality of life, its population has the lowest share of foreign-born residents in western Europe, at 6.6 percent, and anti-immigrant …
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A francophone school board in Montreal’s east end has confirmed that it denied employment to two aspiring teachers who wear religious symbols. This comes less than two weeks after the majority of school boards on the island publicly agreed to apply Quebec’s religious neutrality law after initially speaking out against Bill 21. “Both people were …
