The mayor of Reading has said the town’s community “shall not be divided” by the recent terror attack at a vigil held in memory of the victims one week on. Cllr David Stevens said the Berkshire town would always be “inclusive and diverse” at a private memorial event held in Market Place on Saturday evening. […]
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Mississippi legislators have taken the first steps toward erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that has come under intensifying criticism amid nationwide protests against racial injustice. The second-ranking officer in the Mississippi house, Jason White, told his colleagues: “The eyes of the state, the nation and indeed the world, are […]
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A YouTuber who recorded himself phoning a “truly despicable” bomb threat to an NHS trust dealing with Covid-19 patients has been jailed for 12 weeks. Matthew Wain, who was angry at a supposed lack of treatment at Birmingham City Hospital during the first week of lockdown, told an emergency department worker: “Not being funny… after […]
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An Islamic State-inspired fanatic incited a terror cell in Germany to commit a mass casualty attack with a car, bomb and meat cleaver, a court has heard. Fatah Abdullah, of Arthur’s Hill in Newcastle, set about learning how to make a pressure cooker bomb to relay the information to continental conspirators Omar Babek and Ahmed […]
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French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to stand firm against racism but also praised police and insisted that France would not take down statues of controversial, colonial-era figures. It was the first time Mr Macron has spoken on the issues since George Floyd’s death in the US unleashed protests around the world, including several in […]
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Boris Johnson has pledged to establish a cross-government commission to examine “all aspects” of racial inequality in Britain. Writing in The Daily Telegraph, the Prime Minister acknowledged that Britain had much more to do to deal with the issue. He said the commission on race and ethnic disparities would look at “all aspects of inequality […]
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A 28-year-old has been charged after a man was photographed apparently urinating next to the memorial dedicated to Pc Keith Palmer, the officer who was stabbed to death in the 2017 terror attack in Westminster. Andrew Banks, of Stansted, Essex, has been charged with outraging public decency and will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ […]
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Workers suspended from ropes will be lowered into the charred remains of scaffolding that melted atop Notre Dame when the cathedral went up in flames to begin the delicate job of dismantling the 200 tons of metal. The work will start on Monday and last through the summer months, according to the office overseeing the […]
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A doctor and a father of three girls will be tried in an Egyptian criminal court over claims of female genital mutilation (FGM) surgery, a rights lawyer said. Reda el-Danbouki, executive director of the Women’s Centre for Guidance and Legal Awareness in Cairo, said the procedures took place last week in the district of Juhaynah […]
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Monotheism means the indivisibility of God. This is not just the basis of Jewish theology, but of universal humanity. When the Torah, in chapter one, teaches that every human being is created in God’s image, it leaves no place for the notion of ‘children of a lesser God’. There exists no one who doesn’t matter, […]
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