On 9 September 2016, at 7:10 PM, a soldier fired a flare bomb from very short range at 15-year-old Palestinian ‘Abd a-Rahman a-Dabagh during a protest held near the Gaza perimeter fence, east of al-Bureij Refugee Camp. A-Dabagh, a resident of the camp, was killed. The flare bomb hit a-Dabagh above the eye, fractured his …
Dresden mosque and congress centre hit by two bomb blasts
Two separate bomb attacks took place in the German city of Dresden Monday night, according to Saxony police. One of the attacks targeted a mosque while the second targeted the International Congress Center of Dresden. No injuries have been reported from the two home made devices, only property damage, police added. Police say they believe …
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French blogger pushed to soften questions in interview with EU Commission chief Juncker
French woman who interviewed European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker claims she came under pressure from YouTube not to ask difficult questions. Laetitia Nadji, who is in her 30s and has 60,000 followers on her YouTube channel where she gives environmental tips, was chosen for a European version of a similar interview YouTube did with US …
HDP Co-chair Demirtaş said in an interview to German newspaper: “We do not designate PKK as a terrorist organization”
Giving comments to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş said: “We do not designate PKK as a terrorist organization. However, we do define attacks targeted at civilians as terror.” As he was asked ‘why it was so difficult for HDP to keep a distance from PKK and violence’, Demirtaş responded: “It is not …
Danish nationalist party distributes ‘anti-refugee spray’
Members of a Danish nationalist party sparked controversy when they distributed cans of spray labeled “Asylum Spray: Legal [and] Effective” in the town of Haderslev in southern Denmark on Saturday. The Danskernes Parti (Party of the Danes) is currently trying to qualify for the next parliamentary elections and seeks to have all non-Western immigrants thrown …
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UN aid convoy hit by air strikes near Aleppo
An international aid convoy has been hit by an air strike near the Syrian city of Aleppo according to the Syrian Red Crescent. At least 18 of the 31 vehicles were struck as they were delivering assistance for 78,000 people in a rebel-held area. One report said at least 12 people were killed, most of …
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Nazi emblems found with Houston shooter killed by police
A disgruntled lawyer wearing military-style apparel with old Nazi emblems had two weapons and more than 2,500 rounds of live ammunition when he randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said. Nine people were injured during Monday morning’s shootings on the street in front of …
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UN aid trucks wait on Turkish-Syria border
Despite an ongoing ceasefire deal between warring sides in Syria, aid trucks are being prevented from entering the country by the Assad regime. Around 40 trucks of two convoys carrying mostly food and flour, set off from the Turkish border town of Cilvegözü, 40 km west of Aleppo on Tuesday, but made it little further …
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New York woman tries to rip off Muslim women’s hijabs, attacks babies in apparent hate crime
An American woman attacked two Muslim women and their babies in New York, trying to rip off their hijabs and pushing over their strollers, which the prosecutors have described as a hate crime. The attacker, whose real name is Emirjeta Xhelili, approached the women in a Brooklyn street on Thursday afternoon and tried to rip …
Man throws firebomb in car, screams “there you go, Muslim!”
In yet another of the disturbing Islamophobic attacks occuring more and more frequently in the United States, a man in northern Philadelphia (Dauphin and Cleveland streets) is wanted for throwing a firebomb into an occupied car. An explosive believed to be a firebomb has been thrown into a car – allegedly while the driver was …
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