Legal Tangles Foil Slovak Jews' Quest For Holocaust justice

Legal tangles foil Slovak Jews' quest for Holocaust justice (via AFP)

For Holocaust survivors and their families in Kosice, a once bustling town in eastern Slovakia turned wartime ghetto, bringing the world's most wanted Nazi collaborator to justice is a slow and painful task. The town's small Jewish community welcomed…

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ThyssenKrupp Patriarch Who Saved Wartime Jews Dies At 99

ThyssenKrupp patriarch who saved wartime Jews dies at 99 (via AFP)

Berthold Beitz, the patriarch of German heavy industry giant ThyssenKrupp, who saved hundreds of Jews from Nazi persecution, has died aged 99, the company said Wednesday. The industrialist, who died Tuesday, became supervisory board chairman in 1970…

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"Wolverine" Leads Pack At US Box Office

"Wolverine" leads pack at US box office (via AFP)

"The Wolverine" savored a ferocious premiere weekend at North American box offices, leading a pack including horror flick "The Conjuring," final industry data showed Monday. Starring Hugh Jackman as a clawed mutant, the sixth installment of the X-Men…

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Can 'Wolverine' Claw Back Big-Budget Hollywood Losses?

Can 'Wolverine' claw back big-budget Hollywood losses? (via AFP)

"The Wolverine," the latest "X Men' spin-off, is hoping to claw back some Hollywood pride after a string of big-budget flops have left major Tinseltown studios licking their wounds. Starring Hugh Jackman, the film is forecast to make over $70 million…

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Church Of England Declares War On [Payday Loans Firm] Wonga

Church of England declares war on payday loans firm (via AFP)

Church of England leader Justin Welby has told a company offering short-term high-interest loans that the church wants to "compete" it out of existence by promoting not-for-profit credit unions. Welby, who as Archbishop of Canterbury is spiritual leader…

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France Opens Probe Over Lawmaker's Hitler Remark On Roma

France opens probe over lawmaker's Hitler remark on Roma (via AFP)

French investigators said Tuesday they had opened a criminal probe into a lawmaker who was allegedly recorded saying that Hitler "did not kill enough" Roma. Interior Minister Manuel Valls had earlier called for Gilles Bourdouleix, a controversial lawmaker…

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Lebanon Panel Approves Draft Law On Domestic Violence

Lebanon panel approves draft law on domestic violence (via AFP)

A draft law protecting women from domestic violence was approved Monday by a Lebanese parliamentary panel, after years of campaigning by rights groups who welcomed the move as a step forward. The parliamentary committee's approval comes less than two…

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Nazi-Themed Cafe in Indonesia Sparks Global Outrage

We really need to start a WTF category for news like that!
For those who only read the headlines, the owner of that cafe is "a Christian who likes playing with air rifles"... I'm not sure if that really qualifies him as a good guy though.
Loup Dargent

Nazi-themed cafe in Indonesia sparks global outrage (via AFP)

From a painting hung high on a blood-red wall, Adolf Hitler peers down on young students eating schnitzel and slurping German beer in Indonesia's Nazi-themed cafe. The SoldatenKaffee ("The Soldiers' Cafe") opened its doors in the western Javanese city…

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Jewish Groups Call On EU To Overturn Polish Kosher Ban

Jewish groups call on EU to overturn Polish kosher ban (via AFP)

Europe's Jewish leaders on Thursday asked the European Union to back their call for a Polish ban on the ritual slaughter of animals for food to be overturned. Jewish community and religious leaders from across Europe also urged the EU to review its…

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European Police Raid Neo-Nazi Terrorist Suspects

European police raid far-right 'Werewolf' suspects (via AFP)

Police launched raids in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland on Wednesday against six suspected members of a far-right "Werewolf" cell modelled on late-World War II plans for a Nazi guerrilla resistance. Four suspects in the three countries, plus…

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France Arrests Norwegian Neo-Nazi Over Terror Plot Fears

France arrests Norwegian neo-Nazi over terror plot fears (via AFP)

A Norwegian neo-Nazi black metal musician and convicted killer was arrested in France on Tuesday over fears he may have been preparing a "major terrorist act", the interior ministry said. Kristian Vikernes, who the ministry said once had a link with…

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Zimmerman Acquittal Shifts Race Back To Fore In US

Zimmerman acquittal shifts race back to fore in US (via AFP)

The acquittal of Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the death of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin has brought tough questions about racism in America back to the fore. Suspicions that the fatal February 2012 shooting of the 17…

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School That Teaches Afghan Girls To Speak For Themselves

School that teaches Afghan girls to speak for themselves (via AFP)

Dah Yaya is an Afghan village set in stony hills and steeped in traditions that limit women to second-class status in this desperately poor country ravaged by Taliban insurgency. But in a school set up by an Afghan-American woman named a 2012 top 10…

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Malala Yousafzai Vows Not To Be Silenced By Attack

Malala vows not to be silenced by attack (via AFP)

Pakistan teenager Malala Yousafzai told the United Nations on Friday that she would not be silenced by terrorist threats, in her first public speech since being shot by the Taliban. "They thought that the bullet would silence us, but they failed," Malala…

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Snowden: The Geek Turned Deep Throat

Snowden: The geek turned Deep Throat (via AFP)

Hunted as a US traitor and at the center of a diplomatic row, Edward Snowden got off to a less spectacular start in life: he is a self-confessed geek and high school dropout. Snowden, 30, came out of nowhere to trigger one of the biggest intelligence…

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Prince Charles Fears Rise of Anti-Semitism in Britain

Prince Charles fears rise of anti-Semitism in Britain (via AFP)

Prince Charles spoke out against the "apparent rise in anti-Semitism" in Britain and warned of "other poisonous and debilitating forms of intolerance" after a series of attacks on mosques. Charles was speaking at a London event celebrating Jonathan…

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Explosive Device Found Outside British Mosque

Yep, another attack on a mosque... and this time it was a bomb.

Of course, it didn't take long for some English Defence League Supporters to publicly rejoice about it on Facebook (will they ever learn?)... You can find their outrageous comments here, in this latest post from TellMaMaUK.org.

The following article from AFP is unfortunately several hours old, so I have added links to more recent ones as well. Feel free to check out those and some of the related ones at the end of this post!

Stay safe!

Loup Dargent

Update!
After we published this post, we got in touch on Twitter with @TellMamaUK  and asked if they would not mind giving us a statement and they kindly agreed to provide us one... here it is:

"After Woolwich, we were aware of the number of anti-Muslim incidents was steeply rising and that the spike was high. We were also aware that mosques were potential visible targets and our data was showing that. The explosive device outside the mosque is a turn for the worst and this is deeply worrying."

Suspected Jewish Extremists Vandalise Arab Israeli Town

Ahmad Gharabli/AFP: An Arab Israeli man points to graffiti that reads in Hebrew "Arabs out" (left) and "assimliation" scrawled on the wall of a house in the Arab Israeli town of Abu Ghosh, west of Jerusalem on June 18, 2013...

Suspected Jewish extremists vandalise Arab Israeli town (via AFP)

Suspected Jewish extremists punctured the tyres of 28 cars and scrawled graffiti in an Arab Israeli town before dawn on Tuesday in the latest in a spate of apparent hate crimes, an AFP correspondent reported. On a wall near the vandalised cars in Abu Ghosh, west of Jerusalem, the perpetrators wrote…

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Julian Assange: A Year In The Ecuador's London Embassy

Julian Assange: a year in the embassy (via AFP)

It is an odd sight: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is wearing a jacket and tie, but no shoes. Then again, if you have not stepped outside Ecuador's London embassy for a year, shoes are largely pointless. In an interview with AFP to mark this strange anniversary, the man behind the whistleblowing…

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Four Arrested Over Blaze At London Islamic Boarding School

Despite claims made by a so-called "journalist" from the Telegraph that revenge attacks on Muslims were not really happening, here is another arson attack against a Muslim building... And, this time, it was a boarding school with kids in it.