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Aberdeen City Council is among the organisations to have waded into the debate around Scotland's new hate crime bill by suggesting the language is
"strengthened" to allow a balance between respecting freedom of speech and tackling hate crime.
Selecting school governors on the basis of their affiliation with a church rather than their management skills reinforces community division, a new report
suggests.
A letter signed by more than 120 MPs and peers, including senior Tories and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, has accused China of a "systematic and
calculated programme of ethnic cleansing" against the country's Uighur Muslim minority.
Councillor Colin Elcock will answer claims he wrote tweets saying Islam was 'domination not integration', and asking whether people in Iran were 'all on the
dole'.
British female Islamic State (IS) suspects have been smuggled out of detention camps in northeast Syria, with some raising funds online to pay for further
escapes, according to jihadist social media activity.
Instagram has apologised for temporarily disabling the accounts of two Charlie Hebdo journalists, who had shared the front page of the magazine with the
reproduction of cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammad.
Pope Francis on Monday accepted the resignation of a priest whom he had chosen to become the bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese in Duluth, Minnesota, after
a nearly 40-year-old allegation of sexual abuse of a minor emerged against the clergyman, church officials said.
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