A right-wing Italian gunman shot and wounded six African immigrants in a two-hour drive-by shooting spree Saturday, terrorizing a small Italian city where a Nigerian man was arrested days earlier in the gruesome killing of a teenager, police said. The shooting suspect was identified as Luca Traini, a 28-year-old Italian with no previous record. Traini …
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PKK supporters’ attacks on Turks in France have taken a new dimension, Turkish embassy in Paris warned on Friday, condemning the recent arson attacks. In a written statement, the embassy said the Turkish diplomats are in close cooperation with the French officials to investigate the attacks and bring perpetrators to justice. The statement said vehicles …
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A British army trainer accused of joining a “virulently racist” neo-Nazi group kept a terrorism manual written by the white nationalist Anders Breivik, a court heard. Mikko Vehvilainen is accused of membership of National Action, along with private Mark Barrett and a 23-year-old man who cannot be named for legal reasons. All three were described …
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Thousands of people turned out saturday for an anti-racist march in the central Italian city of Florence in memory of a black man from Senegalese shot dead by a racist attacker. Idy Diene, a legally resident street vendor aged 54, was gunned down Monday by a 65-year-old man. Then he initially intending to kill himself and leaving behind …
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A young, unarmed black man was shot 20 times in his grandmother’s backyard in California. Now his brother is fighting through grief to demand justice. “They gunned him down like a dog,” Stevante Clark said of the police shooting of his brother, Stephon. “They executed him.” Stevante was in the back seat of a car, …
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National Geographic acknowledged that it covered the world through a racist lens for generations, with its magazine portrayals of bare-breasted women and naive brown-skinned tribesmen as savage, unsophisticated and unintelligent. “We had to own our story to move beyond it,” editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg told The Associated Press in an interview about the yellow-bordered magazine’s April …
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A woman launched a disgusting racist verbal attack on an Indian woman sitting alone on a train was captured on camera. The footage was uploaded on social media after a fellow passenger became outraged over the incident. Patricia Bonnar shared the clip which took place while she was travelling on the metro with some friends …
Thousands of African men who could be given a choice by the Israeli government: Take $3,500 to relocate to an unnamed “third country” — widely reported to be Uganda or Rwanda — go back to their home country, or go to jail. Israel began handing out the first deportation orders to Africans earlier this year. …
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Linda Brown, 76, whose father objected when she was not allowed to attend an all-white school in her neighborhood. She came to symbolize one of the most transformative court proceedings in American history, the school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, died in Topeka, Kan. Her death was confirmed by a spokesman for the Peaceful …
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Refugees and refugee homes are still attacked nearly every day in Germany but the figures dropped significantly last year. The German government counted 2,219 attacks on refugees and their homes in 2017. According to an Interior Ministry answer to an official parliamentary information request, the attacks broke down into 1,906 attacks on refugees and 313 on homes, …
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