Ethnic News

Ethnic organisations in Belfast have received threatening letters demanding they leave NI by 12 July or have their buildings "blown up". The letters claim to be from a loyalist youth wing and bear the logo of the fascist Combat 18 group.

Today Amanda Knox celebrates her 22nd birthday in an Italian prison -- her second birthday behind bars since she was jailed in November 2007, charged with the brutal murder of her British roommate while studying abroad.

A senior Housing Executive official has said the recent departure of members of the Roma community from Belfast was linked to more than racism.

The monkey is related to saddleback tamarins, which include several species of monkeys known for their distinctively marked backs.

Anna Lo is the sole ethnic minority member of the Northern Ireland Assembly - and last week she was warned by police of threats to attack her by racist far-right groups in the region, reports the Belfast Telegraph.

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His father is a music legend and he too has carved a niche for himself as a Santoor player.

By Thierry Leveque Bobigny, France - Algerian singer Cheb Mami went on trial in France on Thursday over accusations that he forced his former lover into an attempted abortion in 2005.

Photograph: Suhaila Sahmaran/AFP/Getty Images He is one of the biggest stars of north African pop, a heart-throb whose sell-out worldwide gigs and duets with Sting brought Algerian rai music to a new international audience.

"Politicians, public figures, scientists, the mass media and the global community should demonstrate greater moral and spiritual strength and genuine solidarity in pursuing just solutions to the economic, financial, social and environmental problems plaguing the globalised world," said an appeal issued by the third Congress of Leaders of World and ...

Uzbekistan News.Net Wednesday 1st July, 2009 India is a very important player in the two-day global conference of faiths and civilisations that opened in this Kazakh capital Wednesday, a top diplomat says.

There are conflicting reports on a violent incident in Peru's Amazon jungle region which left both police officers and indigenous protesters dead.

The Smithsonian is honoring the retiring director of the Folklife Festival with a special concert Saturday night featuring acoustic blues and Cajun music.

With an Italian singer from Atlantic City and the traditional Navy Band Northeast's Wind Ensemble topping the bill, the musical guests and entertainers at St.

Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie said 25 people - some of whom had their windows smashed, doors broken down and were threatened at gunpoint - had already left.

Jennifer Lynch has been tarred with the unfounded claim that her films get made only because of who her father is.

The police have said they did not know enough about the concerns of Romanian families who fled from their south Belfast homes after a spate of attacks.

One hundred Romanians who fled their homes in Belfast after a spate of recent attacks have decided to leave Northern Ireland and return home.

I've spent the last two days at a conference in Freeport, Bahamas, sponsored by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, listening to dozens of specialists discuss the best way to pacify the Taliban-infested border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

More than 100 Romanians - including women and children - were forced to take shelter in a Belfast church after a spate of race-hate attacks.