Fifty years after Mildred and Richard Loving’s landmark legal challenge shattered laws against interracial marriage in the U.S., some couples of different races still talk of facing discrimination, disapproval and sometimes outright hostility from their fellow Americans. Although the racist laws against mixed marriages are gone, several interracial couples report ...
Protests were held in cities across India on Wednesday against a wave of attacks on Muslims by mobs that accuse ...
Italy made a formal request for more support from the European Union on Wednesday as it copes with an increase ...
Trapped in their homes in Raqqa and running out of supplies, Ahmad Shaabu, his family and their neighbors were increasingly desperate. It was the children who finally helped them to escape. Shaabu was among some 20 civilians who managed this week to flee the ...
Dozens of Sudanese activists living in Egypt as refugees, many of whom fled fundamentalist Islamic militias and were close to approval for resettlement in the United States, now face legal limbo after the Supreme Court partially reinstated President Donald Trump’s travel ban on six ...
Three migrants died in the Mediterranean on Monday night, a German aid group said, during Italian-led rescue operations in which thousands more were pulled to safety from rickety boats. About 5,000 migrants were picked up off the Libyan coast by emergency services, Italy’s navy, ...
The number of drug addicts in Iran has more than doubled in six years, with opium the country’s most popular narcotic, local media reported Sunday. “There are about 2.8 million people regularly consuming drugs” in the country of 80 million people, Drug Control Organization ...
A U.S. judge heard arguments on Wednesday to halt the deportations of around 100 Iraqis arrested by immigration authorities in the Detroit area because many belong to minorities and could face torture or religious persecution in their homeland. In a coordinated sweep in recent ...
Sudanese authorities on Tuesday brought home from Libya eight children, including a 1-year-old, whose parents are allegedly members of the Islamic State group. The children were flown into Khartoum from the Libyan capital Tripoli, an AFP correspondent said. “Thanks be to Allah, today eight ...
In the sun-soaked setting of Copenhagen’s Nyhavn harbor, there is a striking reminder of the ongoing migrant crisis taking place on Europe’s shores. Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has barricaded the windows of the Kunsthal Charlottenborg museum with more than 3,500 salvaged lifejackets worn ...
Four survivors have told how some 126 fellow migrants drowned off Libya last week when their flimsy rubber dinghy foundered after smugglers removed the engine and fled, the U.N. migration agency said Monday. Flavio Di Giacomo of the International Organization for Migration said the ...
Hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered in Sao Paulo on Sunday for one of the world’s largest gay pride parades with this year’s event focusing on the threat of religious fundamentalism to Brazil’s LGBT community. Under a giant rainbow-colored flag, revelers of all ages, ...
Humanitarian ships picked up about 730 migrants on Sunday from rubber and wooden boats in the Mediterranean, adding to a lengthening list of rescue operations in recent days. The migrants were picked up in seven separate rescue operations aboard three dinghies and four wooden ...
Oregon became on Thursday the first U.S. state to allow residents to identify as other than male or female on state driver’s licenses, a decision that transgender advocates called a victory. Under a policy unanimously adopted by the Oregon Transportation Commission, residents can choose ...
Humanitarian rescue ships picked up more than 1,000 migrants from nine rubber and wooden boats off the coast of Libya on Thursday, Italy’s coast guard said. The Vos Hestia, operated by Save the Children, rescued more than 100 migrants, most of them from Bangladesh, ...
