Race Relations / Ethnic Issues
Exclusive-U.S. to downgrade Malaysia to worst tier in trafficking report -sources
By Mei Mei Chu and A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department will downgrade Malaysia to the worst...
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Erdogan defends Turkey’s withdrawal from violence against women treaty
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's withdrawal on Thursday from an international treaty to prevent violence against women is not a step...
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Britain’s parties fight for votes in northern England
By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Voters in a northern English region were casting their ballots on Thursday in a...
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Honduran mother of migrant boy abandoned in Mexico contacts authorities
By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The mother of a toddler whose disappearance sparked international media attention appeared on Wednesday...
Read moreMexican trans lawmaker has big plans to combat LGBTQ+ discrimination
By Alberto Fajardo MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Maria Garcia and Salma Luevano will in September become the first two trans...
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Hundreds of migrants stage hunger strike in Brussels for legal status
By Bart Biesemans and Johnny Cotton BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Concern over a weeks-long hunger strike by hundreds of undocumented migrants in...
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Swedish right-wing hopeful seeks to woo centrists in PM bid
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's centre-right Moderates offered centrists a raft of policies favoured by their mainly rural voters on Wednesday,...
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Seven migrants drown as boat capsizes off Italy’s Lampedusa
PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - At least seven migrants, one of them pregnant, drowned after a boat carrying them capsized five...
Read moreEthiopian troops ‘forced’ out of Mekelle, Tigray forces spokesman says
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopian forces were forced to withdraw this week from the Tigray regional capital of Mekelle, a spokesman...
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EU considers legal action against Poland over “LGBT-free” zones – sources
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's executive is considering legal action against Poland over "LGBT-free" zones set up by some...
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Mexican authorities search for relatives of abandoned migrant boy
By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican authorities on Tuesday were searching for the relatives of a boy, thought to...
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Bill curtailing indigenous land rights advances in Brazil’s Congress
By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - A bill allowing commercial agriculture and mining on protected tribal reservations in Brazil advanced...
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Mexican authorities find 2-year-old boy abandoned near migrant truck
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities on Monday found a boy thought to be about 2 years old alone near...
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‘Stop denying racism, start dismantling it,’ U.N. rights chief says
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) -Nations should "start dismantling racism", set up reparations programmes and prosecute law enforcement officials for...
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Trudeau says pope should apologize on Canadian soil for church role in residential schools
(In June 25 story, corrects mass graves to unmarked graves in first paragraph) By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -Prime Minister...
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Blinken and pope meet but unclear if U.S. bishops’ vote discussed
By Philip Pullella and Humeyra Pamuk VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis held talks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony...
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Czech President Zeman calls transgender people ‘disgusting’
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech President Milos Zeman, commenting on a Hungarian law that bans LGBT material from schools, told a...
Read moreWhite man sentenced to 22 years for murder of Black actor in Portugal
LISBON (Reuters) - A Portuguese court on Monday sentenced a white man who shot dead a Black actor in a...
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Factbox-Swedish PM Lofven resigns, speaker to try to break political deadlock
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven resigned on Monday after losing a no-confidence motion last week, handing the...
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Clock counts down for Swedish PM Lofven as snap election looms
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden moved closer to a snap election on Monday after fruitless attempts to form a government by...
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