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Since the 1970s, the Rohingyas have fled to Malaysia, drawn by its Muslim-majority population, among several factors. PHOTO: REUTERS KUALA LUMPUR – Online backlash over a Rohingya community’s Hari Raya Haji cattle sacrifice has reignited anti-refugee sentiment in Malaysia. What began as local complaints over waste disposal after the slaughter of 60 cattle for the korban ritual quickly turned into a wider attack on the refugees’ presence in the country. An online petition laun

Macron, who has acknowledged French ‘responsibility’ in the genocide, called the memorial a reconciliation ‘milestone’. France's President Emmanuel Macron (right) shakes hands with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame at the Habib-Bourguiba esplanade along the River Seine, in Paris, France, June 2 [Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool via Reuters] French President Emmanuel Macron has presented a memorial in Paris dedicated to the victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, as France pursues closer tie

As the US-Israel war on Iran is used by the Islamic Republic to intensify repression, we must keep up global pressure, warns Nasrin Parvaz. I wish there was more attention on those condemned to execution and those denied their most basic rights, writes Nasrin Parvaz. [GETTY] More than thirty years ago, I was imprisoned in Iran for eight years and tortured just for taking to the streets to demand freedom. When I first arrived in the United Kingdom, my mind was still trapped in

Gregory Bovino and Jared Taylor flew in to support activists once deemed too toxic even by European far-right parties. The United States’ former Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino was a VIP guest at the tightly controlled event that also included elected officials from Spain's Vox and Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD). | Marion Solletty/POLITICO PORTO, Portugal — European far-right activists who advocate the mass deportation of immigrants and their descendants are getti

Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, walks during the first congress of the ruling Prosperity Party, in the city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 11, 2022. (Eduardo Soteras/AFP/Getty Images/File) When Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018, he offered a clean slate for Africa’s oldest uncolonized nation, which had been suffocated by decades of strict state control. His predecessor, Hailemariam Desalegn, had overseen strong economic growth during his nearly s

The overwhelming majority of those deported had no criminal convictions, and at least 600 were children Iranian workers clean around a destroyed Khorasaniha synagogue in Tehran, Iran, on 7 April 2026. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA In late January, the Trump administration was planning a war in Iran, weighing possible airstrikes and staging aircraft carriers and other military ships in the region. Around that time, government officials deported 18 people to Iran, the las