LONDON – The former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Sherard Cowper-Coles, has been accused of racism. Cowper-Coles, who now holds a senior position at HSBC, is alleged to have commented to Oxford students that the “Arab mind is empty.” The former diplomat made his comments in an impromptu speech welcoming students to the ...
LONDON (AA) – The British health secretary has said that asylum seekers, who were moved from the Bibby Stockholm after traces of Legionella bacteria were found, should be put back on the floating barge. “It’s important that we both maintain safety standards, but also reflect the pressure on the taxpayer position in terms of that [&hellip...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia and Libya announced Thursday they had agreed to share responsibility for providing shelter for hundreds of migrants stranded at their border, many of them for over a month. The migrants, primarily from sub-Saharan African countries, had been driven to the desert area of Ras Jedir by Tunisian authorities and left t...
JACKSON, Mississippi – Six former Mississippi police officers have pleaded guilty to assaulting two Black men. The officers, all white, entered a home without a warrant and assaulted the men with a sex toy and firearms. One victim was shot at and wounded in a “mock execution” that went wrong. Officers then conspired to plant ...
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois – Illinois will be the first state in the U.S. to recognize Arab Americans as a race. This is considered a major victory for those who come from the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. The new law was passed by the Illinois legislature and signed by Governor JB Pritzker last Friday. […]
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – Tou Thao, the fourth and final Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s murder, was sentenced on Monday to more than four years in prison, according to multiple news outlets. Thao held back bystanders from the scene of the killing in the state of Minnesota on May 25, 2020 in […]
JACKSON, Mississippi – A federal appeals court has ruled unconstitutional a Mississippi state law that permanently disenfranchises people with certain criminal records. The law was passed in 1890 by white lawmakers during the Jim Crow era and was used to disenfranchise Black voters. The court ruled that the law violates the Eighth Amendm...
On the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya (AFP): Pato looks at the picture on his phone. It shows him with his wife and daughter, all carefree smiles. “That’s the last time we were happy,” he says, completely traumatized. A few months after the photograph was taken, his life was shattered. A friend showed Pato, who is […]
BERLIN (AA): The number of politically motivated attacks on refugee shelters in Germany has steadily increased since the beginning of last year, with 80 crimes reported in the first half of this year, mostly involving far-right activists as perpetrators and migrant Muslims from Afro-Asian origin as the victims. Following a parliamentary inquir...
Portland, United Kingdom (AFP): If there’s one thing that unites the people of Portland, south-west England, it is opposition to the UK government’s plan to house 500 asylum seekers on a large barge in its harbour. From a vantage point at the top of this small town of 13,000 inhabitants, the 93-metre- (305-foot-)long Bibby Stockhol...
