An elementary school teacher in central Italy who told his students a black classmate was “ugly” is learning about the outrage his action caused. Several parents complained after their children told them the teacher directed the boy to turn his back to the the class and then instructed the other students to “look how ugly …
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam attempted on Saturday to rationalize his decision to not step down after a racist photo surfaced from his medical school yearbook page. But even after hearing Northam tell his side of the story — that it wasn’t him in the picture — prominent Democrats are still calling on him to resign. …
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Nearly 75 years after the second world war, Germany is still paying monthly pensions to collaborators of the wartime Nazi regime in several European countries including Belgium and Britain, according to Belgian MPs and media reports. The foreign affairs committee of the Belgian parliament this week voted in favour of a resolution urging the German federal government to put …
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Nine years after they were forced to flee the war in Syria, the family of a 15-year-old boy whose abuse at the hands of school bullies in the UK was captured in a viral video clip have been forced to move again. In an interview with the Guardian, the father of the boy – who can …
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The Finnish police and the National Prosecutor General’s Office are investigating whether the new Soldiers of Odin video, in which they declare a hunt for rapists and paedophiles, constitutes hate speech and instigation to violence, the Finnish daily newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet reported. In the video, which is provided with English and Arabic subtitles, the group claims that it has made false profiles in social …
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Police in Belgium arrested a third suspect for killing a person in a shooting in the city of Antwerp, local media said on Feb. 3. According to French-language daily Le Soir, one person died and two others were injured on Saturday when a gunman opened fire in front of a cafe on Brederode Street. The …
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The white supremacist group Identity Evropa more than doubled the number of its chapters. The violent neo-Nazi organization Atomwaffen Division grew from one chapter to 27. The white nationalist group and podcasting site The Right Stuff boasted 34 chapters. American hate groups had a bumper year in 2018 as a surge in black and white …
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A member of the United Nation’s fact-finding mission on Myanmar has told of horrific accounts of violence against Rohingya. “Firstly, the killing of young men and secondly, terrible sexual violence against women and girls especially in large houses and detention centers. And there was also brutality toward children by separating them from their parents. Sometimes …
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Swastikas and anti-Semitic tags were found daubed over 80 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France on Tuesday on the day of nationwide marches against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks. The damage was discovered on Feb. 19 morning at a cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, close to the border with Germany in the Alsace region, …
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More than 2,000 far-right activists from several European countries staged a torchlit procession through Sofia on Saturday to honour a Bulgarian pro-Nazi general, despite opposition from the Balkan country’s political parties and Jewish groups. The procession, known as the Lukov March after Hristo Lukov, who led the pro-Nazi Union of Bulgarian National Legions in the 1930s and early …
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