Daily Mail: Britain’s violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it is revealed today.
Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa - widely considered one of the world’s most dangerous countries.
The figures comes on [...]

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Guardian: Senior prosecutors are calling for the laws on race hate crimes to be strengthened to counter the threat posed by the British National party.
The threshold for securing a conviction is so high that far-right activists are able to evade prosecution for material that many people would consider to be threatening and racist, according to [...]

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EJP: Lithuania is to delay payments froms a compensation fund for Jewish property seized by the Nazis during World War II and kept by the state in the Soviet era, a government spokesman said Monday.
“The government has decided that compensation payouts will begin in 2012, because of the economic crisis, and will continue for 10 [...]

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Guardian: One in four men in South Africa have admitted to rape and many confess to attacking more than one victim, according to a study that exposes the country’s endemic culture of sexual violence.
Three out of four rapists first attacked while still in their teens, the study found. One in 20 men said they had [...]

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Telegraph: In a letter from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, was told that he had less than a month to provide written undertakings that the party would abide by race relations legislation.
John Wadham, legal director of the Commission, said that the watchdog was concerned that the BNP’s constitution and [...]

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The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор translation: death by starvation) refers to the famine of 1932–1933 in the Ukrainian SSR during which millions of people were starved to death because of the Soviet policies that forced farmers into collective farms. The Holodomor is considered one of the greatest national calamities to affect the Ukrainian nation in modern [...]

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The Baltic Times : VILNIUS - The Seimas (Lithuanian parliament) has voted to pass the amended Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information, which would see information about homosexuality banned from schools and other places that can be accessed by youths.
“The subject of homosexuality is not welcome in our [...]

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Telegraph: Phyllip Cadwallader, 43, had called in to light a candle in memory of his late mother before competing in a running race.
He was dressed in a shirt, trousers and pair of brogues, but aroused attention because of he has a shaven head, tattoos and was carrying a bag.
BBC Radio 4 was about to start [...]

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Photo of huge patriot rally by Jamie Kelso, May 16, 2009 Corona, Calif.
Panorama of the Mass Patriot Rally
May 16, 2009 at Corona, Southern California
“The Medium is the Message”
Sometimes the MOST obvious thing about a scene is very easy to overlook. Also, I always like to remember Marshall McLuhan’s observation that “the medium is the message”. [...]

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