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London, Sep.8 (ANI): Croatian football chiefs are using a sick fascist hatemonger to whip up a vile racist frenzy among fans ahead of the national team’s match against England at the Wembley stadium on Wednesday.

A Sun investigation today reveals the Croatian FA is behind a cynical campaign encouraging thugs – who will be at [...]

London, Sept 1 (ANI): Readers of a Christian website have identified biblical verses purportedly backing sexism, genocide and the slaughter of sorceresses as the holy book’s least endearing parts.

The survey lists the ten verses people would rather had been left out of the Bible in an attempt to show the dangers of quoting scripture selectively.

The [...]

Berlin, Aug. 28 (ANI): Germany has handed over 29 yellowing blueprints of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The blueprints give chilling details, with gas chambers, crematoria, delousing facilities and watchtowers drawn to [...]

London, July 2 (ANI): “Are you a terrorist?” It is a question that every foreign student, as young as five year-old, has to answer while applying to boarding schools in Britain.

According to reports, this is being implemented under the new UK Border Agency regulations, which came [...]

London, June 24 (ANI): Actress and activist Mia Farrow has condemned the British and American Governments for not having taken enough measures to stop the genocide in Darfur.

While speaking at the Rotary International Convention at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre, the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador said that it was “unacceptable” not to do more when “this level [...]

Amritsar, May 24 (ANI): Various Sikh organisations have decided to observe the 25 years of Operation Blue Star as the Martyrs’ Day in the first week of June in remembrance of Indian Army’s action at the Golden temple to evict extremists hidden inside.

President of [...]

New York, May 20 (ANI): Given the overwhelming mandate received in the 2009 general elections, the Indian National Congress-led coalition government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will now have to exercise the kind of regional and global leadership that is expected of a rising power, says a New York Times editorial.

According to the NYT, New [...]

Toronto, May 11 (ANI): Protesting against the civil war in their native Sri Lanka, many Tamil Canadians gathered to form a human chain at a downtown Toronto highway on Sunday evening, resulting in shutting down both lanes of the highway.

They were holding a sit-down protest on the highway with many linking arms and chanting “No [...]

Washington – US President Barack Obama on Friday called for a “just acknowledgment of the facts” over the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians toward the end of the Ottoman Empire, but stopped short of declaring that the killings were a genocide.
Obama has been under pressure from the Armenian-American community to live up to a [...]

Jerusalem – Sixty four years after the defeat of the Nazi regime and the end of World War II, anti-Semitism is still flourishing, Israeli President Shimon Peres warned Monday as he opened the country’s annual commemoration of the Nazi’s attempted genocide of the Jews of Europe.
“The gas has dissipated, but the poison remains. There [...]

Auschwitz (Poland), April 26: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil here on Sunday paid homage to the victims of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where at Nazi forces killed least 1.1 million Jews during World War II.

On visit to the concentration camps, put up by [...]

Ottawa, April 15 (IANS) A Sri Lankan Tamil protesting ‘genocide’ against the community in the island nation was hospitalised even as his colleagues continued their hunger strike outside the Canadian parliament here.
Five Tamils went on a hunger strike opposite the House of Commons building April 7, seeking Ottawa’s intervention in the Sri Lankan conflict. While [...]

Canberra, April 14 (Xinhua) Over 100 Tamil protesters converged outside the Australian prime minister’s Canberra residence Tuesday and demanded that Australia play a greater role in efforts to end violence in Sri Lanka.
The protesters wanted Australia to use diplomatic channels to push for a permanent cease-fire in the conflict between Sri Lankan government forces and [...]

Ottawa, April 13 (IANS) Protesting Tamils in Canada have sought Sri Lanka’s ouster from the Commonwealth and international trade and travel embargo against it for the ‘genocide’ of innocent civilians in the conflict zone.
The Tamils, who have been protesting outside parliament for the past six days, have also launched a hunger strike to draw attention [...]

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The march was the biggest yet in a week of demonstrations by members of the Tamil minority and their supporters in the UK.
Sri Lanka’s military says it has beaten the Tamil Tiger rebels [...]

Sydney, Apr 13 (ANI): Hundreds of Tamil demonstrators protesting outside the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Sydney residence say that they will stay there until the Australian Government urges the Sri Lankan Government to call for a ceasefire with the Tamil Tigers.

Protester Geetha Mano, 24, said the rally would continue until they got some response from [...]

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New Delhi – As India gears up for general elections, politicians in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state are hyping their rhetoric regarding Sri Lanka’s ethnic Tamils, news reports said Friday. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Karunanidhi, who has never supported the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the past, appealed to the Sri [...]

Coimbatore/Chennai, Apr 9 (ANI): Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) activists staged protest and rallies against alleged killing of innocent Tamilians by the Sri Lanka army.

In Coimbatore, holding placards and raising slogans, they denounced the action by the Sri Lankan Government on the Tamilian civilians and demanded immediate cease fire.

Further, they demanded the immediate withdrawal [...]

Washington – US President Barack Obama urged a peaceful solution to long-running disputes between Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey in a telephone call Tuesday with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.
Obama, who visited Turkey this week before making a surprise stop in Iraq Tuesday afternoon, said the US was committed to “supporting progress” to resolve a long-running conflict [...]