JOHANNESBURG (AA) – South Africa has expressed concern over US “propaganda” and “misinformation” after President Donald Trump froze Washington’s aid to the country, citing the recently adopted land appropriation law and Pretoria’s genocide case against Israel. “We are concerned by what seems to be a campaign of misinfor...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President Donald Trump has signed an executive order cutting financial assistance to South Africa, citing concerns over its land expropriation law, the White House said. “The United States cannot support the government of South Africa’s commission of rights violations in its country or its undermining United States ...
A staff member of Elon Musk’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has resigned after racist social media posts surfaced. Marko Elez was set to join DOGE after federal approval. However, the Wall Street Journal exposed his past racist comments. Elez’s posts, which included anti-Indian remarks and inflammatory statements about Israel ...
An 11-year-old girl was handcuffed for 7 minutes in Syracuse, New York, after deputies mistook her for a car theft suspect. The child’s mother expressed heartbreak over the incident, saying, “That’s not how you handle children.” The girl was detained near where the stolen car was last seen. Deputies later determined she wasn’t the suspect [&he...
One in five Muslim women in the U.K. experienced hate crimes in the past year, according to the Muslim Women’s Network U.K. Baroness Shaista Gohir, also a House of Lords member, highlighted the alarming trend at a Women and Equalities Committee meeting. She linked the rise of what she called “gendered Islamophobia” to negative poli...
Pakistan has condemned rising racist and Islamophobic remarks against British Pakistanis in the U.K. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs voiced concern over attempts to vilify the diaspora of 1.7 million. Controversy erupted after Indian lawmaker Priyanka Chaturvedi’s social media post labeled “Asian grooming gangs” as “Pakistani grooming g...
France’s Interior Minister has urged banning Muslim women from wearing hijabs during school trips, citing the need to curb Islamist influences. Bruno Retailleau made the call on the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Twelve people were killed by Al-Qaeda terrorists after the magazine published offensive cartoons about Prophet Muha...
ISTANBUL (AA) — A populous western German state will open the country’s first anti-Muslim racism reporting center in spring 2025, local media reported. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia, home to more than 1.7 million Muslims, will establish the center, called MEDAR, to document and report attacks and crimes targeting Muslims. The center, whi...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump’s top border adviser said Thursday that the new administration will reintroduce family detention for migrants with children. “You knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child. So you put your family in that position,” Tom Homan told The Washington Post. ...
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to restore Alaska’s Mount Denali to its former name, Mount McKinley, honouring 19th-century President William McKinley. Addressing a crowd in Phoenix, Trump criticised the 2015 decision by the Obama administration to revert to the mountain’s Indigenous name, Denali. Trump called the renaming unfair to McK...
