Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy’s far-right League, is embroiled in a diplomatic spat with Tunisia after he accused a 17-year-old of being a drug dealer. Out campaigning in the working class neighborhood of Pilastro in Bologna ahead of a crucial regional election at the weekend, Salvini rang the bell of a Tunisian family’s home and asked: “Can …
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A Japanese woman was asked by an airline to take a pregnancy test before boarding a flight to a US island. Midori Nishida was travelling from Hong Kong to Saipan to visit her parents when she was asked by staff at Hong Kong Express Airways to prove she was not pregnant as part of a ‘fit-to-fly’ assessment. After …
Kashmiri girl Zeenat Shakeel has felt “discriminated against in India” all her young life. Now, cooped up in a small Calcutta hotel for more than three weeks, the would-be doctor wonders if she is facing “discrimination even by Bangladesh”. Rubena Assadullah, Birjees Habib and Zeenat, three Kashmiri women in their early twenties, have been in …
According to Indian press reports, during the protests, police raided a madrasah in the city of Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, and tried to get the students to say the words of Hinduism by calling them “terrorists.” The 68-year-old responsible of the madrasa, Mevlana Asad Rıza Hüseyni, said in a statement on the subject that he was …
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Sener Sahin wanted to run for the CSU as a candidate for mayor. After violent protests from the local association in Wallerstein, Swabia, the 44-year-old Muslim German entrepreneur withdrew his application, as he confirmed on Saturday. “It was never about me, it was always about my belief,” Sahin said on Sunday to the “Suddeutsche Zeitung”. …
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The US Department of Education said the elite schools did not fully report hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign gifts and contracts. Harvard and Yale told the BBC they were preparing responses for the government. It comes amid a clamp down on foreign funding to academic institutions. Under US law, universities are required to …
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As of Thursday morning, a huge Facebook group called “Stop the Steal” was organizing rallies and fundraising to challenge election results across the US. The group accumulated more than 300,000 members in the less than 48 hours it existed before Facebook removed it on Thursday afternoon. “In line with the exceptional measures that we are …
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Black people living in Germany face pervasive issues with racism and discrimination, according to a survey which marks the first wide-scale effort to tally the community’s experiences. “The results of the Afrozensus indicate that anti-Black racism is widespread in Germany and anchored in institutions,” a press release of the report said on Tuesday. “There is …
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The leader of Spain’s Vox party said Wednesday that Ukrainian refugees, not Muslim migrants, should be welcomed in Spain. “Anyone can tell the difference between them (Ukranian refugees) and the invasion of young military-aged men of Muslim origin who have launched themselves against European borders in an attempt to destabilize and colonize it,” Santiago Abascal …
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked said Sunday said that over 90 percent of Ukrainians arriving at the Israel’s borders are not Jewish and that the influx of refugees “cannot go on.” The Interior Minister said that less than 10 percent of the 2,034 Ukrainian nationals that have entered Israel since the war in Ukraine broke out …
