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Germany

Berlin's street names provoke debate over forgotten history

In the heart of Berlin, a battle over street names is exhuming long forgotten vestiges of Germany’s past.

World News

Melbourne shop owner bans blacks and dogs

A Melbourne milk bar has come under fire after the owner displayed a sign in the window banning black youths and dogs.

Israel

Israeli police arrest 19 year old suspect linked to bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers in the US and abroad

Business Series

Google promises changes over advert row

Google promised better controls for its websites, particularly YouTube, after complaints companies' adverts have appeared next to hate-filled videos.

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Business Series

Google apologies over extremist content

Google has apologised for allowing ads to appear alongside offensive videos on YouTube as more high-profile firms pulled their advertising.

USA

Ferguson shooting: New video casts doubts on black teen's 'robbery bid'

A newly-disclosed video disputes claims that black teenager Michael Brown had been trying to rob a convenience store before he was shot dead by a white police office in Ferguson, Missouri in…

USA

Police investigate 'hate crime' in attack on Sikh man in Seattle

US police are investigating a possible hate crime, after a Sikh man was allegedly shot in the arm by a man who told him ‘go back to your country’.

USA

Jewish cemetery attack investigated by US hate crime experts

A hate crime task force in New York is investigating the vandalism of more than a dozen headstones in a Jewish cemetery in Rochester. The FBI is investigating reports of a wave of hoax bomb threats.

USA

US shooting investigated as potential hate crime

A 51-year-old man from Kansas has been charged with killing an Indian engineer and wounding two other men when he opened fire in a bar.

USA

Trump denounces anti-Semitic threats in the US

Donald Trump has denounced a recent spate of anti-Semitism in the United States.

United Kingdom

Post-Brexit hate crimes in England and Wales reach record levels

Hate crimes in England and Wales have risen to record numbers in the three months immediately following the UK's vote to leave the European Union

United Kingdom

Watch: Woman films racist abuse from solicitor on train

Video taken on December 29, 2016, shows Alexander MacKinnon calling out racist abuse directed at Sanaa Shahid and her four-year-old son on a train from London to…

USA

Oscars respond to “so white” criticism

Last year the Academy were lambasted for ignoring black and ethnic minority talent. So how does 2017 compare?

Cinema

Marcelo Cake-Baly makes acting debut in 'The Citizen'

Hungarian film “The Citizen” tells of the compelling journey undertaken by an African who yearns to fit into Hungarian society.

USA

Panic at a MLK memorial march after shots are fired

A Martin Luther King memorial march in Miami was disrupted as thousands ran for cover after gun fire rang out.

USA

Tensions grow between Trump and black leaders

January 16 in the United States is Martin Luther King Day in honour of the civil rights hero.

USA

Damning US Justice Dept report finds Chicago PD 'routinely violated people's rights'

A damning US Justice Department report finds Chicago Police have routinely violated people's rights.

USA

Dylann Roof is sentenced to death for South Carolina church attack

White supremacist Dylann Roof has been sentenced to death for the racially motivated killing of nine black parishioners in a South Carolina church Last month Roof was found guilty of 33 federal charge

USA

"Great service, but we don't tip black people"

Support has poured in for a black waitress who said she was the victim of a racist note from a customer.

USA

Obama condemns 'terrible toll' of racism after Facebook-streamed attack

Four young black people are due in court in Chicago on Friday over the torture of a mentally ill white man which was broadcast live on social media.