NEW YORK (AA) – Advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against Harvard University for allegedly favoring white students. The lawsuit alleges that the prestigious college gives preferential treatment to applicants with wealthy donors and alumni connections. The civil rights advocates filed the lawsuit on behalf of several advocacy groups, s...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA): Hundreds of Srebrenica genocide victims are still missing although 28 years have passed since the massacre in the eastern Bosnian town, Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute told Anadolu. Mujo Hadziomerovic, the head of the institute, said that 12,469 bone remains were dug out during mass grave excavations after the 1...
GENEVA (AA) – A study shows that the housing market in the Central European country of Austria is affected by racial discrimination. A study commissioned by the Ombud for Equal Treatment (GAW) found that Muslims are particularly affected by discrimination. The authors of the study responded to 157 housing advertisements in the Austrian c...
BERLIN (AA): A mosque in the central German city of Duisburg has received a threatening racist letter, according to a religious official. The Duisburg Central Mosque, which is affiliated with Turkish-Muslim umbrella group DITIB, got a letter, which included both a swastika and the word “NSU 2.0,” referring to a neo-Nazi group responsible for a...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA): A UN court has extended the sentences of two allies of the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic for their involvement in crimes against humanity during the Balkan wars. The Appeals Chamber of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals rejected on Wednesday the appeals by Jovica Stanisic and Frank...
HOUSTON, US (AA): It has been more than 100 years since the massacre that obliterated a prosperous Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma. However, the families of those killed in one of American history’s darkest chapters of racial violence are still waiting for reparations. The massacre started on May 31, 1921, in the Black north Tulsa […...
ANKARA (AA): Australia’s lower house of parliament has approved legislation to hold a referendum for the establishment of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, a consultative body that would advise the government on policies relating to Indigenous issues. The bill, Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023,...
WASHINGTON (AA): Discrimination cases against Muslims in the US state of New Jersey saw a 46% increase in 2022 from the previous year, according to a report released recently by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR-NJ said in its 52-page report, titled “Beyond the Courts,” that they received 152 calls for help in ...
LONDON (AA) — Murhaf Hamid, an 11-year-old child of asylum seekers, had to file an asylum request in Sweden despite having been born in the country. However, Hamid broke a fundraising record as hundreds of thousands of dollars flowed in to help the boy. The boy has raised more than 3.2 million Swedish kroner ($223,000) […]
Frankfurt, Germany (AFP): Sener Sargut is from Turkiye but has lived in Germany for over six decades. He is married to a German woman and speaks the local language fluently. Yet the 80-year-old does not hold German nationality, as taking up citizenship of his adopted homeland would mean giving up his Turkish passport. But that […]
