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Protesters rally on International Women's Day, fearing far right
AFP, Published on 09/03/2025
» PARIS - Protesters took to the streets across the world Saturday to mark International Women's Day, demanding equal pay, political representation and an end to gender-based violence while voicing fears of rising repression.
Musk salute at Trump rally celebrated by extremists online
AFP, Published on 22/01/2025
» WASHINGTON - Elon Musk's hand gestures at an inauguration event for US President Donald Trump, which quickly drew comparisons to Nazi salutes, appear to have resonated in some far-right extremist spaces online.
US rap star Kanye West apologizes for anti-Semitism
AFP, Published on 27/12/2023
» NEW YORK - US rapper Kanye West apologized to the Jewish community Tuesday, after a series of anti-Semitic comments that sparked outrage and led to the star being dropped from lucrative commercial deals and banned from social media.
X sues hate speech tracker over Twitter reports
AFP, Published on 02/08/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO - X is suing a nonprofit group in US federal court over reports that hate speech has flourished at the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Uruguay abandons plan to melt, recast Nazi bronze
AFP, Published on 19/06/2023
» MONTEVIDEO - Uruguayan authorities are reversing plans to melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken Nazi ship and recast it as a dove of peace, the president said Sunday.
Chinese shopping app Temu wows US amid TikTok fears
AFP, Published on 10/04/2023
» WASHINGTON - Shopping online at Temu, Laurie Silva paid just $1.25 for earrings and $15 for a cardigan -- she is among millions of US consumers the Chinese platform is wooing with low-cost bargains and a dizzying array of products.
Kanye West kicked off Twitter for swastika post
AFP, Published on 02/12/2022
» LOS ANGELES: Elon Musk kicked Kanye West off Twitter on Friday “for incitement to violence”, after the rapper posted a picture that appeared to show a swastika interlaced with a Star of David.
Lifting the veil on a German father's Nazi secret
AFP, Published on 09/11/2020
» HAMBURG - Barbara Brix admired her father, a doctor who passed on his love of history and literature. Until she learned years after his passing that he had been part of a Nazi death squad.
Nuremberg preserves Nazi past, stone by stone
AFP, Published on 09/11/2020
» NUREMBERG (GERMANY) - When Nazi ruins begin to crumble, is it better for Germany to rip them down or restore them?
Greek court to sentence neo-Nazi party top brass
AFP, Published on 08/10/2020
» ATHENS - A Greek court on Thursday will deliver eagerly-awaited sentences after leaders of neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn were found guilty of running a criminal outfit in a landmark case, a court source said.