Jul
The Dutch central bank (DNB) on Friday apologized for its role in the 19th century slave trade and said it would fund projects to raise awareness of slavery and to mitigate the effects it still has on people. DNB’s apologies followed an independent investigation published in February which showed that many of its early directors […]
Jul
Poland has completed construction on a new 186-kilometre border wall in an attempt to deter migrants entering from Belarus. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and top security officials visited the border area on Thursday to mark the completion of a new 5.5-metre-high steel wall. Poland is also set to lift a state of emergency on Friday that […]
Jun
When Kavon Ward walks onto Bruce’s Beach in Manhattan Beach, a wealthy, predominately white coastal enclave in southern California, she keeps her focus on the ocean. Looking elsewhere gets her blood boiling. “I feel disgusted. When I look straight ahead into the water I am fine, but when I look right or left and see […]
Jun
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other federal agencies to help those affected by an earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the US is “deeply saddened to see the devastating earthquake” that killed more than 1,000 people. “President Biden is monitoring […]
Jun
The United Kingdom government has said it will introduce legislation allowing it to ignore certain European Court of Human Rights decisions after a judge in Strasbourg blocked flights removing asylum seekers to Rwanda. Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab will bring the new Bill of Rights to parliament on Wednesday as the government attempts to implement […]
Jun
The highest administrative court in France upheld on Tuesday a ban on burkini under a new “secularism framework,” preventing women from wearing full-length swimming costumes in public pools. The Council of State confirmed the suspension of the internal regulations of the swimming pools passed in May by the Grenoble city, authorizing the wearing of the […]
Jun
The only remnant of the murdered Congolese independence leader, a gold tooth, was returned to his family during a ceremony in Brussels. His 1961 murder is a reminder of Belgium’s brutal colonial history. Belgian authorities returned the only known remains of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba to his family on Monday. A gold-capped tooth belonging […]
Jun
The plan launched this week, which the Home Office described as a one-year pilot, may involve adults who face deportation, impose a curfew on some or allow the detention and prosecution of those who do not comply with the new rules. The British Home Office said the plan will test whether monitoring migrants with GPS […]
Jun
The Dutch government formally apologized Saturday to soldiers who were sent as U.N. peacekeepers to defend the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica with insufficient firepower and manpower to keep the peace. The soldiers — veterans now — were overrun by more heavily armed Bosnian Serb forces led by Gen. Ratko Mladic who went on to massacre […]
Jun
Priti Patel has approved the extradition of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange to the US, a decision the organisation immediately said it would appeal against in the high court. The case passed to the home secretary last month after the supreme court ruled there were no legal questions over assurances given by US authorities over […]
