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Slideshow ( 4 images ) (Reuters) - White supremacist propaganda in the United States including racist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ messages nearly doubled last year to a record level, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The New York-based advocacy group’s data showed 5,125 cases reported in 2020, compared to 2,724 in 2019, even though incidents on college campuses dropped by more than half, possibly due to COVID-19 restrictions. Critics say white supremacism got a boost from U.S. President Donald Trump’s recently-ended presidency though he denied racism and said he was smeared by pol...

3 Min Read BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union agreed on Wednesday to blacklist Chinese officials for human rights abuses, two diplomats said, the first sanctions against Beijing since an EU arms embargo in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square crackdown. FILE PHOTO: A gate of what is officially known as a vocational skills education centre is photographed in Dabancheng, in Xinjiang Uighur EU ambassadors approved the travel bans and asset freezes on four Chinese individuals and one entity, whose names will not be made public until formal approval by EU foreign ministers on March 22, as par...

3 Min Read BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union agreed on Wednesday to blacklist Chinese officials for human rights abuses, two diplomats said, the first sanctions against Beijing since an EU arms embargo in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square crackdown. FILE PHOTO: A gate of what is officially known as a vocational skills education centre is photographed in Dabancheng, in Xinjiang Uighur EU ambassadors approved the travel bans and asset freezes on four Chinese individuals and one entity, whose names will not be made public until formal approval by EU foreign ministers on March 22, as par...

4 Min Read BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - There is almost nothing Raquel Barrion doesn’t know about the two Lebanese children she has looked after since they were babies. But one day, the Filipina domestic worker decided to find out how much they knew about her. Barrion, 39, was pleasantly surprised when - by means of a light-hearted quiz game - one of them got her birthday right and both knew her favourite colour as well as he best-loved food. Many families across the Middle East and beyond might struggle to answer such questions about the live-in workers who cook for them, clean, a...

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators protest to mark the anniversary of a prominent activist's death and against allegations of police abuse, in Tunis, Tunisia February 6, 2021. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian appeals court released on Wednesday a prominent women’s rights defender and LGBTI activist who had been jailed on charges of “insulting police and abuse of morals”, her lawyers said, in a case that raised concerns about freedom of expression. Rania Amdouni, 26, a member of the human rights group Damj, Tunisian Association for Justice and Equal...