At least 10 Yemeni women and children have been killed in the first US military operation in the country authorised by President Donald Trump, medics and local media have said. The US military said it killed 14 members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Sunday’s dawn raid in the southern province of al-Bayda …
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An international relations professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago was forced to teach statistics after being told he was most qualified because Asians, particularly Koreans, are very good at math, a recent federal lawsuit charges. The allegation is one of a number leveled by South Korea native Seung-Whan Choi, who is suing the …
President Trump on Friday closed the US borders to refugees from around the world, ordering that families fleeing the slaughter in Syria be indefinitely blocked from entering the United States, and temporarily suspending immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries. In an executive order that he said was part of an extreme vetting plan to keep …
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he Bayonne man charged with spray-painting anti-Muslim graffiti and writing “Donald Trump” on a church building used by the local Muslim community was sentenced to 12 months probation today. As a condition of his sentence, Jonathon Hussey, 20, of West 27th Street, wrote a letter of apology to the St. Henry’s Church pastor and to …
A Welsh Muslim teacher said he was made to feel like a ‘criminal’ when he was kicked off a US-bound flight in Iceland in front of dozens of shocked students without being given a reason. Juhel Miah, 25, was due to fly to New York from Reykjavik with students from Llangatwg Comprehensive in Aberdulais, Neath …
Lindsay Lohan has said she was “racially profiled” recently after arriving in London from Turkey. The famous actress recalled the incident on Good Morning Britain earlier today (February 21), telling hosts Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan: “I got stopped recently and was racially profiled… She opened my passport, saw ‘Lindsay Lohan’ and immediately started apologising. …
A Tennessee man won’t face terrorism charges for plotting an attack against an upstate New York mosque — and attorneys claim it’s because federal terrorism statutes almost exclusively focus on foreign extremists. Robert Doggart was arrested in April 2015 after authorities discovered that he had been trying to recruit people to burn down a mosque …
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Anti-Muslim fliers affiliated with the American Vanguard, a white nationalist organization, have appeared on college campuses across the United States. Students from the University of Texas at Austin, University of Central Florida and Rutgers University tweeted photos of a flier reading “Imagine a Muslim-free America.” The flier was in black and white with a silhouette …
Fadwa Alaoui is a Moroccan-born Canadian citizen living in Brossard, Quebec. Like a lot of Quebecers, she sometimes drives down to Vermont to take advantage of the deals. But on Saturday, when her family pulled up at the border, Alaoui encountered something new. After the usual set of questions, Alaoui says she was asked about …
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The FBI is investigating political activists campaigning against the Dakota Access pipeline, diverting agents charged with preventing terrorist attacks to instead focus their attention on indigenous activists and environmentalists. The Guardian has established that multiple officers within the FBI’s joint terrorism taskforce have attempted to contact at least three people tied to the Standing Rock …
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