A New Jersey couple has been convicted of harassing their Muslim neighbor for several years. On Tuesday, seventy-six-year old William Ong and his 73-year-old wife Betty were convicted of bias intimidation in Hudson County Superior Court. Investigators determined the Ongs made threatening and harassing statements to a Muslim neighbor about his ...
A Virginia mosque has been vandalized for the second time in six months. Authorities said the West End Islamic Center in Glen Allen, a northern suburb of the capital Richmond, was targeted by vandals Saturday afternoon. Police said the damage includes a smashed window, overturned tables and chairs, and graffiti. Ibrahim Hooper, national commun...
TORONTO – Former Afghan interpreters for the Canadian army are urging Ottawa to treat their family members fleeing the Taliban the same way as Ukrainians escaping from Russian troops. Speaking at a parliamentary committee, the interpreters called on the Canadian government to let their families into the country as easily as Ukrainians, reporte...
LONDON – The British government has announced sanctions against two Bosnian Serb leaders for undermining peace and security in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the wider Balkans region. Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian Serb member of the country’s tripartite Presidency Council, and Zeljka Cvijanovic, the president of the Serb entity Republika ...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Rwandans paused Thursday to mark the 28th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group at nationwide remembrance ceremonies to honor 1 million people killed in 100 days. Thousands gathered at memorial sites in the national capital of Kigali and across the country to lay wreaths on graves where [&h...
BERLIN (AA) – German police conducted coordinated raids against neo-Nazi groups in multiple cities early on Wednesday. Hundreds of police officers searched dozens of buildings in 11 federal states, targeting suspected members of neo-Nazi groups Combat 18, Atomwaffen Division, Knockout 51 and Sonderkommando 1418, public broadcaster ARD reported...
HOUSTON, Texas – Eighty-year-old Helen Lewis Johnson is an African American historian for the Black Heritage Society. He remembers the day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968 as if it were yesterday. “I was enjoying being home with my four children while on a spring break…when the […]...
BERLIN (AA) – More than 30 years after a deadly arson attack on a refugee shelter in western Germany, authorities arrested a former leading neo-Nazi figure on Monday. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement that a new investigation has revealed that right-wing extremist Peter S. carried out the racist attack on the refugee [&...
On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law legislation finally making lynchings a federal hate crime It ends more than a century of delays in outlawing the symbol of what Biden calls “pure terror.” Anyone convicted under the new law will face up to 30 years in prison. Researchers say there were thousands of […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has sanctioned five individuals and five entities in Myanmar over “genocide” of its Rohingya population. Those designated include Myanmar’s 66th Light Infantry Division, including its leaders Brigadier-General Ko Ko Oo, and and Major-General Zaw Hein. Three individuals identified as arms dealers...
