BERLIN (AA) – A right-wing extremist and white supremacist, who was behind the 2019 Halle terror attack, took two prison guards hostage in Germany, but he was overwhelmed by other guards, authorities said. The incident occurred on Monday at a prison in Burg in the eastern Saxony-Anhalt state. According to the Justice Ministry, Stephan Balliet ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The city of Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the slave-holding Confederate states during the American Civil War, removed its last city-owned Confederate monument on Monday. Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill’s statue at the intersection of Laburnum Avenue and Hermitage Road was removed early Monday, according to ...
DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Even after centuries, traces remain in Africa of the slave trade maintained by Westerners up until the 1800s. While West Africa was used for years as the main slave hub, many countries expanded their colonies and transported slaves to the New World from ports in the eastern and southern parts of […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada announced Monday that it will provide CAN$62.5 million (US$46.3 million) in support over the next six years for an Indigenous tribe rocked by a horrific stabbing spree that claimed 11 victims in September. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement during a visit to the James Smith Cree Nation in [&...
ANKARA (AA) – French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has criticized Mathilde Paris, a lawmaker from the far-right political party National Rally, for “lashing out at the government rather than the Italians” over migrants row. Asked about the Ocean Viking row with Italy, in a National Assembly session, Darmanin said: “I am v...
Windhoek, Namibia (AFP): Authorities in Namibia’s capital Windhoek have taken down and relocated a statue of a controversial German colonial officer following pressure from local activists. The monument commemorated Curt von Francois, a German army commissioner who has been historically credited with “founding Windhoek” ̵...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – South Africa’s Constitutional Court on Monday ordered the release of Janusz Walus, who was jailed for killing anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani in 1993, on parole. “The decision of the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services made in March 2022 denying the applicant’s application for parole, is reviewed and set aside,” ...
PARIS (AA) – French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne decried an alleged racist incident occurring in the French parliament on Thursday. Borne declared “racism has no place in our democracy,” French news channel BFMTV reported. The French interior minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter, “What a shame.” Earlier, Pr...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – A group of tourists on a river boat in the Peruvian Amazon have been detained since Thursday by an Indigenous group as part of a protest against a recent oil spill. Local media reported that at least 150 tourists are being held hostage in the Maranon River, in the province of […]
ANKARA (AA) – The French parliament adjourned its sitting on Thursday after Black lawmaker Carlos Martens Bilongo was yelled at to go back to Africa by a member of a far-right party. Bilongo, a member of the left-wing France Insoumise party, was addressing the chamber when the far-right member yelled, “Go back to Africa!,” th...
