The number of hate crimes in Canada skyrocketed last year, reaching the highest reported total since the government started issuing annual reports on the subject nearly a decade ago. Notably, reported hate crimes against Muslims rose a staggering 151 percent from 2016 to 2017, increasing 207 percent in Canada’s most populous province, Ontario. Canadian police […]

Swastikas have been appearing on various points of interest on the Google Maps application for people around the world. On Friday, a woman named Katie from Dublin, Ireland, tweeted that the symbol appeared for her in place of the usual bed icon that would populate on the app for hotels. “I opened my maps and […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greeted each other like old friends at the G20 summit in Argentina on Friday as other world leaders have distanced themselves from the Saudi leader following the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.  As the leaders arrived at the summit, Putin and MBS, as […]

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials on Friday upped the ante in the growing confrontation with Russia, announcing a travel ban for most Russian males and searching the home of an influential cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church. The long-simmering conflict bubbled over Sunday when Russian border guards rammed into and opened fired on three […]

BERLIN (AP) — Some 170 police officers, investigators and prosecutors raided the German offices of Deutsche Bank on Thursday on the suspicion bank employees helped clients set up offshore companies in tax havens to launder hundreds of millions of euros. The investigation emerged from an analysis of documents leaked from tax havens in recent years, […]

The French government launched an online platform this week for reporting sexual and gender-based violence, days after tens of thousands of protesters in the country joined a global call to end violence against women. The service will allow victims or witnesses of sexist violence to share information with authorities via their computers or mobile devices. […]

Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle has revealed that he is HIV positive in the House of Commons.  The Brighton Kemptown MP revealed his medical status on Thursday in a bid to break the stigma surrounding HIV and Aids.  Russell-Moyle also called on the government to do more to ensure the HIV-prevention drug PrEP is available on […]

Many Europeans don’t know much about the Holocaust, and anti-Semitic beliefs are still fairly widespread among residents of at least seven European countries, according a recent CNN/ComRes survey. A combined third of European respondents said they knew “just a little” about the Holocaust (30 percent) or had “never heard” of it (4 percent), per the CNN […]

Santa Claus dodges bullets and scours abandoned buildings searching for a little girl who’s been separated from her family in the powerful spot, titled “The One Gift Santa Can’t Deliver.” He eventually finds the youngster alone in a room. She reaches out to hold his hand, but he disappears — suggesting the festive gift-givers’ appearance […]

SINGAPORE/JAKARTA (Reuters) ― Indonesian investigators will deliver their first report into the Lion Air crash on Wednesday, a month after the brand-new Boeing 737 crashed into the sea, killing all 189 on board in the country’s second-worst air disaster. The report, which comes as the search continues in the Java Sea for the jet’s cockpit […]