New York / AFP New York unveiled a major public campaign to fight Islamophobia, stressing the equal rights of the city’s hundreds of thousands of Muslims. The campaign — launched in the wake of a Manhattan bomb attack blamed on a radicalized Afghan-American — initially will use social media to spread the message under the hashtag #IAmMuslimNYC. “Now more than ...

  Dresden / AFP Bomb attacks hit a mosque and an international convention centre in the eastern German city of Dresden, police said on Tuesday, adding that they suspected a xenophobic and nationalist motive. No one was injured in the blasts in a city that has become a hotspot for far-right protests and hate crimes following Germany’s huge migrant influx. “Although ...

  Geneva / AFP The United States should give African Americans reparations for slavery, UN experts said on Tuesday, warning that the country had not yet confronted its legacy of “racial terrorism.” Amid a presidential election campaign in which racial rhetoric has played a central role, the UN working group on people of African descent warned that blacks in the US ...