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June 22, 2023

Windrush ship at 75: liberation not a celebration

My late Jamaican ex-Second World War veteran father Simeon George Rowe returned to Britain on the iconic former troop ship Empire Windrush that docked at Tilbury on 22 June 1948 after a 5,000-mile...

J-Z's 'diamond' loses its sparkle

Rupa Sudra  Legendary hip-hop rapper Jay-Z is facing claims that the diamond sign he makes actually belongs to a former artist on his label.Rebel, an ex Roc-A-Fella artist, alleges that Jay-Z stole the diamond sign from him.  "When I first s ...

UN warns of Darfur 'catastrophe'

New United Nations humanitarian chief John Holmes has warned of the "crying need" for political action to bring peace to Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region. In a report to the UN security council, Holmes said 2.2 million people had fled their ...

Going, going, soon to be gone...

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'Environmental racism' alarms US activists

Roddy ScheerCampaigners have failed to prevent even more Hispanics and African-Americans living within two miles of hazardous waste facilities across America. According to a new report from the Environmental Justice Resource Centre at Clark Atlanta Univers ...

Ban 'blood diamonds' now say Amnesty

Charlotte BrowneHuman rights campaigners have targeted retailers in London's jewellery centre to warn them about the importance of not selling gems used to fund wars. Three years after an international agreement that outlawed the sale of so-called ' ...

Americans show they too oppose Iraq war

Thousands of American protesters have denounced the illegal invasion of Iraq as the conflict entered its fifth year. They raised their voices against internationally unpopular U.S. foreign policy and marched to the Pentagon in the footsteps of an epic de ...

Goa lets paedophile tourists off the hook

THE-LATEST - EXCLUSIVEArmstrong Vaz and Rupa SudraAn internationally popular Indian luxury holiday destination is increasingly gaining notoriety as a magnet for foreigners who commit child abuse while the authorities look the other way.And experts says the ...

Crimes Against Humanity - Who's Next?

Top Firm Forced To Remove 'Sambo' Logo

Deborah Hobson - EXCLUSIVEThe-Latest has helped win a David and Goliath victory over a giant Scandinavian food manufacturer who for a decade have stubbornly refused to remove a racist logo from one of their most popular products. Cloetta Fazer have just ...

'Iraq Is Bush's Vietnam'

Veteran anti-war American politician EDWARD KENNEDY spoke at the National Press Club last week about the radical resolution he is introducing in the US Senate that would get Congress to vote on President Bush's controversial 'surge' plan to sen ...

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