A black woman said a CVS store manager in Chicago called the police after questioning the legitimacy of her coupon and posted the confrontation on social media in a video that has gone viral. Camilla Hudson told ABC News that when she went into the CVS in Edgewater Glen on July 13 night and the coupon …
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As France clinched its second-ever World Cup win over Croatia thanks to goals by migrants and a Muslim, fans and onlookers quickly pointed out the need for the country to apply its victories on the field to life off the field. Often in the spotlight for its xenophobic and Islamophobic social policies, France didn’t seem …
A German court has found the main defendant in a high-profile neo-Nazi trial guilty of killing 10 people 8 of them Turks who were gunned down between 2000 and 2007 in a case that has shocked Germany and prompted accusations of institutional racism in the country’s security agencies. The judges sentenced Beate Zschäpe to life in prison for murder, membership of …
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After years of persecution by Chinese police, Uighur businessman Mehmet fled his home in northern Xinjiang for neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, only to be harassed by Kyrgyz police and threatened with deportation. On his sixth arrest in July last year, a Kyrgyz security officer brought Mehmet to the basement of a security facility and showed him about 70 Uighur men …
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A central New York man who has been asked to remove a Nazi flag on his property says he’s being hacked and that it’s a “distress call.” Preble resident Jody Fish told the Post-Standard in an interview on Aug. 2 that he raised the flag to get people’s attention. Fish says he’ll lower the flag when someone …
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The United States is cutting more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinians, the State Department said on Aug. 24 amid a deteriorating relationship with the Palestinian leadership. A senior State Department official said without elaborating that the funds, originally planned for programs in the West Bank and Gaza, would address “high-priority projects elsewhere.” …
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The flag of Nazi Germany was sighted atop a flagpole in a public park in Laramie, Wyoming. The US flag that usually flies from the pole lay crumpled on the ground when police arrived on the scene morning of on July 30, according to Lieutenant Gwen Smith of the Laramie Police Department. Shortly after police …
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More than 24,000 Rohingya Muslims have been killed by Myanmar’s state forces since August 2017, according to a new report. The figures were revealed in the report – Forced Migration of Rohingya: The Untold Experience – released by the Ontario International Development Agency, which involved researchers and organizations from Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Norway and the …
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Judges have decided Tommy Robinson should be released from prison after being jailed for contempt of court. Earlier this month, the far-right leader’s lawyers argued he should be freed because of “procedural deficiencies” in two court cases. The Lord Chief Justice and two other judges have been considering calls to quash his 13-month-jail sentence and findings that he committed …
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Posters and graffiti have appeared in Barcelona encouraging foreign visitors to throw themselves off balconies in the latest campaign by radical protesters to drive tourists away from Spain. “Tourists go home, and please, practise balconing!” one message said, making light of the craze where people jump off hotel or apartment balconies, often injuring or killing …
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