Seattle police fatally shot a 30-year-old mother of four in her home after they responded to her emergency call about a burglary. Charleena Lyles was shot after police saw her holding a knife, the Seattle Times reported. Ms Lyles lived in Brettler Family Place, a complex of apartment homes meant for people transitioning out of …
Anti-Semitic incidents ‘at record level in UK’
Reports of anti-Semitic incidents have hit record levels in the first six months of 2017, according to a Jewish charity. The Community Security Trust (CST) said 767 reports were made to them between January and June – a rise of 30% on the same period last year. A total of 80 incidents involved physical attacks …
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Rashan Charles death: Video shows police throw 20-year-old to ground in London shop before struggle
Video has emerged showing the moments before a man died after being thrown to the ground by police officers in an east London shop. The man, named locally as 20-year-old Rashan Charles, died in the early hours of Saturday morning after being chased and apprehended in the Yours Locally 24-hour store in Dalston, Hackney. CCTV …
Thousands flock to ‘largest’ neo-Nazi rock festival in Germany, outnumber host city’s population
The tiny German town of Themar saw 6,000 people flock to what is said to be the country’s largest neo-Nazi rock festival: “Rock against Foreign Domination.” The far-right concertgoers vastly outnumbered the town’s population of 3,000 people. The event, ‘Rock gegen Ueberfremdung’ (Rock against Foreign Domination), took place on Saturday in the small, sleepy town …
Racist banner against Celtic’s Scott Sinclair placed on Belfast bonfire
A racist banner against Celtic footballer Scott Sinclair has been displayed on an east Belfast bonfire. The banner was placed on a bonfire in the car park of Avoniel Leisure Centre. A message on the banner read: “Scott Sinclair loves bananas.” The loyalist bonfire site is one of four that are subject to a High …
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Denmark’s contraception aid to Africa ‘to limit migration’
Denmark has pledged more funds for family planning in developing nations, saying this could also help “limit the migration pressure on Europe”. The Minister for Development Co-operation, Ulla Tornaes, said Copenhagen would contribute 91m kroner (£11m; $14m) for the programme. She said unwanted pregnancies had “enormous” human and social costs in the world’s poorest nations. …
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Fascist beach club full of pro-Mussolini paraphernalia raided by Italian police
A Italian beach club venerating former fascist dictator Benito Mussolini has been raided by police. The Punta Canna club in Chioggia, near Venice in northern Italy, is decorated with pictures of Il Duce and signs proclaiming the sight an “anti-democracy, regime run zone” and “don’t break our falls”. Other signs said: “in a country devastated …
France’s Macron under fire after claiming Africa’s problems are ‘civilisational’
When a journalist from the Ivory Coast asked the newly-elected leader why there was no Marshall Plan for Africa, the billions of dollars in economic aid the United States poured into destroyed European countries after World War II, Macron responded with a three-minute soliloquy. “The challenge of Africa is completely different, it is much deeper. …
Artist scrawls hate-speech tweets in front of Twitter’s Hamburg office
A German-Israeli artist who accuses Twitter of failing to delete hate speech tweets has taken matters into his own hands, by stencilling the offending messages on the road in front of the company’s Hamburg headquarters. A YouTube video shows Shahak Shapira and fellow activists stencilling tweets saying, “Germany needs a final solution to Islam” and …
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Sydney council: Don’t blames us for banning synagogue on terror grounds
A municipal council in a suburb of Australia’s largest city said it was not to blame for a decision to ban the construction of a synagogue because it could become the target of a terrorist attack. In a statement Friday, the Waverley Council asserted that the decision to reject the synagogue was made by a …
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