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A screenshot of a 2015 YouTube video by Joshua Bonehill-Paine explaining why he was going to prison. Photo: YouTube/Joshua Bonehill
Britain

UK Conservatives defend picking former neo-Nazi as election candidate

Joshua Bonehill-Paine was convicted in 2015 of racially aggravated harassment of then Labour MP Luciana Berger.

US-China relations

Trump election claims debunked, US-China AI gap: 7 US-China relations reads

Donald Trump

White House uses anti-Trump singer Bad Bunny’s song for ICE video

Australia

Australia’s far-right Hanson loses appeal in racism case

Federal Court rejects free speech defence and upholds racial vilification finding over comments directed at a Muslim senator.

Senator and leader of the One Nation Party, Pauline Hanson. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

US Justice Department investigating Harvard over financial aid programmes

The Trump administration is probing if Harvard University is allowing Chinese donors to create scholarships that exclude American students.

US-China relations

Asian-American groups fear Trump’s escalating rhetoric will fuel racism in US

Community leaders warn US president’s explosive China election-interference allegations may see rise in anti-Asian hate crimes.

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US-China relations

Trump’s election-interference claims spark fears among Chinese-Americans

US president’s prime-time address draws sharp backlash from immigrants who fear a surge in anti-Asian hate crimes.

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US President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation from the East Room of the White House on July 16. Some US networks, such as ABC and NBC, chose not to broadcast the speech live. Photo: Pool/AFP
Donald Trump

Trump says he will ask US Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case

The top court rarely grants requests to rehear cases and has not done ‌so after issuing a ruling in an argued case in ⁠decades.

Australia

YouTube says Sydney massacre ‘crisis actor’ video can stay online

The video calls an Isis-inspired attack that left 15 dead a ‘false flag operation’, an Australian inquiry heard.

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Fifa

Mbappe fires back at Paraguayan senator’s racist attack after France’s win

French federation to take legal action against Paraguayan senator who called the France captain a ‘colonised Cameroonian’ and a ‘brute’.

Paraguayan senator was condemned as "despicable" and "unworthy of her office" by French captain Kylian Mbappe. Photo: AFP
United States

White supremacist group’s July 4 march counts as free speech, US interior secretary says

Doug Burgum asserts masked Patriot Front members did nothing illegal in what he called a ‘messy’ democracy.

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Members of the group Patriot Front march through Washington. Photo: Mark Sherman via AP
United States

US Supreme Court strikes down Trump birthright citizenship order

Court preserves automatic US citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants and temporary visa holders.

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Art

World’s first Chinese LGBTQ museum spotlights overlooked community

Out Museum in San Francisco’s Chinatown gives artists from China and the Chinese diaspora a platform to tell their stories.

United States

US Supreme Court paves way for Trump’s mass deportation of Haitians, Syrians

Top court rules that the administration can strip protections from some 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians in the US.

Immigration activists rally against the US Supreme Court’s ruling on temporary protective status in Washington on Thursday. Photo: AFP
Brazil

Brazil detains Spanish woman for racism, in latest high-profile arrest

The country has some of the strictest anti-racism laws in Latin America, with penalties ranging from two to five years in prison and a fine.

Sao Paulo International airport is seen in Guarulhos, Brazil, in May 2014. Photo: AP
US-China relations

‘China Initiative 2.0’: US crackdown on Chinese scholars intensifies

Immigration lawyers and activists claim the Trump Administration has ramped up its targeting of Chinese scientists and researchers in US.

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South Korea

Fifa invites South Korean YouTuber targeted by racist gesture to World Cup match

Fifa said Thursday’s South Korea-Mexico game would carry an anti-hate message after the incident sparked outrage online.

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Fifa World Cup 2026

Racist gesture at Korean World Cup fan costs Mexican guild chief his post

The man apologised and said he had resigned after a viral video showed him pulling at the corners of his eyes during a match in Guadalajara.

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Left: South Korean YouTuber Yoon Su-jin, who posts under the handle InoCat, filming fans at a World Cup match in Guadalajara. Right: A man identified as Ulises Fernando Bernal Miramontes apologising for making an offensive gesture towards her in a later video. Photos: Instagram / inocat_t / latinus_us
Britain

UK anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson says he was detained under terrorism laws

Police said a man in his 40s had been arrested under the Counter Terrorism and Border Security Act as he flew back to Britain from Russia.

Artificial intelligence

These 5 ‘influencers’ are taking over social media – but they’re not human

These women supposedly attend Paris Fashion Week and get invites to top restaurants, but here’s the catch: they’re not real.

Crime

Belfast stabbing victim ‘improving’ and may soon wake from coma

Stephen Ogilvie lost his left eye and suffered deep head and back wounds in a brutal attack that sparked violent unrest in Northern Ireland.

Police attempt to disperse protesters in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Wednesday. Photo: AP
Protests around the world

Belfast reeling as street violence and online ‘hit lists’ terrify minorities

UK minister says violence in Northern Ireland is ‘racist thuggery’ as ethnic minorities are targeted.

Masked rioters clash with police blocking their way to a hotel housing asylum seekers in Glengormley, north of Belfast, on Wednesday night. Photo: AFP
Protests around the world

Police fire water cannon in Belfast as stabbing sparks second night of unrest

Masked crowds clash with riot police as a Sudanese man is charged in a brutal knife attack that has left the city reeling.

United States

My Take | Henry Nowak’s legacy should be bringing society together, not tearing it apart

Teen’s murder has fuelled debate about policing, claims of preferential treatment of minorities and concerns of a deepening community divide in the UK.

Britain

Clashes erupt in UK city over racially charged case of handcuffed dying student

Police face investigation for handcuffing 18-year-old Henry Nowak as he lay ⁠dying due to a racism accusation.

Police confront demonstrators in Southampton amid outrage over the case of handcuffed student Henry Nowak. Photo: Reuters
China society

As I see it | How adversity has guided the path of Chinese civilisation through the ages

Recent findings by archaeologists suggest the push for innovative solutions is often borne out of the struggle to overcome severe challenges.

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Descendants of Chinese railroad workers gather during a ceremony for 12,000 Chinese immigrant labourers who worked on the Central Pacific Railroad between 1865 and 1869 being inducted into the Labor Hall of Honor, at the Department of Labor, in Washington DC, on May 9, 2014. Photo: Xinhua
Crime

Life sentence for UK Sikh man who falsely claimed his dying victim racially abused him

Court sentences Vickrum Digwa to 21-year minimum for the murder of Henry Nowak, whose handcuffing by police sparked a fierce backlash.

Italy

Italy bans Kanye West concert over security concerns

Authorities scrap festival performance following pressure from local Jewish groups over rapper’s controversial history.

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