A Canadian Muslim family was killed in London, Ontario, when a man rammed them with his pick-up truck. Relatives are urging the wider community to oppose racism and Islamophobia after police said the suspect was motivated by hate reut.rs/3w8AlsI 1/6
Trudeau said he will continue to fight hate online and offline and will take more action to dismantle far-right hate groups, like adding the Proud Boys to Canada's terror listing reut.rs/3w5biqC 2/6
The family was killed when a pickup truck jumped the curb and struck them. Police said the family was deliberately targeted because of their religion and authorities are reviewing the possibility of terrorism charges 3/6
The four family members killed are: Salman Afzaal, 46; his wife, Madiha Salman, 44; their daughter, Yumna Afzaal, 15; and Afzaal's mother, 74, whose name is unreleased. Their son Fayez Afzaal, 9, has serious but non-life-threatening injuries and remains hospitalized 4/6
Nathaniel Veltman was arrested wearing a body-armor type of vest three-tenths of a mile away from the London Muslim Mosque.
‘This was a terrorist attack, motivated by hatred, in the heart of one of our communities,’ Trudeau said in the House of Commons 5/6
The attack was the worst against Canadian Muslims since the attack on Quebec City mosque in 2017. Nawaz Tahrir, a spokesperson for the London Muslim Mosque says Canadians have to ‘ask more of our leaders’ to enact policies that address anti-Muslim hate reut.rs/3w5biqC 6/6
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Laboratory technician Sara Zemmahi was running to be a local councillor backed by President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party until last month when it withdrew its support. Her transgression: wearing her hijab in a campaign poster reut.rs/3x6FQZ7@elizapineau 1/4
The 26-year-old and the three other candidates who had been on the same ticket are now running as independents in the southern city of Montpellier under the slogan 'Different but united for you' 2/4
The affair erupted after the far-right seized upon the image as proof Macron was weak on protecting France's secular values, and propelled Zemmahi into a national row over identity 3/4
Indigenous leaders and school survivors dismissed Pope Francis’ expressions of pain at the discovery of 215 children’s remains at a former Catholic residential school in Canada, saying the church needed to do much more, @amp6 reports reut.rs/3psnXBr 1/5
In his weekly blessing, Francis said he was pained by the news about the former school for indigenous students and called for respect for the rights and cultures of native peoples. But he stopped short of the direct apology some Canadians had demanded reut.rs/3zaAsGn 2/5
“How hard is it for the Pope to say: 'I'm very sorry for the way our organization treated the First Nations people, the First Nations students during those times, we are sorry, we pray,’” said Chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations in Saskatchewan, Cameron 3/5
Hong Kong police arrested activist Chow Hang Tung, vice-chairwoman of the group that organizes annual vigils for the victims of China’s 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters reut.rs/2SWkQFE
A look back at the crackdown in Tiananmen Square 32 years ago. See photos 📷 reut.rs/3uJsHDO
China’s 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters will not be officially commemorated by the ruling Communist Party or government. Here are some landmark dates leading up to the demonstrations and the crackdown that followed reut.rs/2SZMj9i
'Michel the noble' and 'Panchito the affectionate' are some of the names Leonardo Carrillo has given the pelicans that flock each year to his wooden hut on the southern coast of Cuba reut.rs/3uOSnyI 1/5
For the past two decades, the 62-year-old has cared for the colony of around 100 brown pelicans that land in his village of Guanimar in December to spend the winter months there before heading back north in May 2/5
Carrillo said he does have three children - two who live in the Isle of Youth and one who lives in a nearby town. But he has not been able to see them much lately due to the pandemic 3/5
Monday, May 31 marks 100 years since a white mob's deadly attacks on African Americans in the neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Thousands were left homeless and up to 300 Black people were killed reut.rs/2Tmhfkp 1/8
No one was ever charged for the violence.
Despite the city's obstructive zoning laws and insurance companies refusing to cover the damage, the Greenwood residents managed to rebuild their neighborhood.
According to a Human Rights Watch report, thousands of survivors were also sent to internment camps. Now, African Americans are calling for justice and reparations at the federal and local level 3/8