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 ...
Three migrants died in the Mediterranean on Monday night, a German aid group said, during Italian-led rescue operations in which ...
The number of drug addicts in Iran has more than doubled in six years, with opium the country’s most popular ...
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, ...
Sitting in a Greek cafe, fugitive Turkish journalist Cevheri Guven explains why he severed links with his homeland “with a knife” after a post-coup crackdown by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “People must understand, there is no justice in Turkey,” says Guven, formerly the editor-in-chief ...
They came for the music, the mind-bending drugs, to resist the Vietnam War and 1960s American orthodoxy, or simply to escape summer boredom. And they left an enduring legacy. This season marks the 50th anniversary of that legendary “Summer of Love,” when throngs of ...
The arrests of dozens of Iraqi Christians in southeastern Michigan by U.S. immigration officials appear to be among the first roundups of people from Iraq who have long faced deportation, underscoring rising concerns in other immigrant communities. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on ...
Supporters of LGBT rights marched and rallied in the nation’s capital and dozens of other U.S. cities on Sunday, celebrating gains but angry over threats posed by the administration of President Donald Trump. The centerpiece event, the Equality March in Washington, was endorsed by ...
