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A passionate debate around Black Pete in the Netherlands has highlighted the prickly subject of racism, often denied in a country proud of its open-minded values.

• 26 октября 2013, 11:05

South Korea's top tobacco firm said Wednesday it would pull ads for its new "This Africa" brand of cigarettes after complaints the use of images of apes dressed as humans was racist.

• 24 октября 2013, 10:43

Council of Europe chief Thorbjoern Jagland has distanced himself from a controversial resolution of the pan-European human rights body that calls for regulation of circumcision practices.

• 10 октября 2013, 16:00

Italy's first black minister defended her adopted homeland Friday, insisting it is not racist even though she endured a series of racially-charged threats and taunts since assuming her post.

• 14 сентября 2013, 17:16

President Barack Obama challenged Americans to enshrine Martin Luther King Jr's victory over racial oppression with a new "dream" of economic equality.

• 29 августа 2013, 17:01

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Wednesday said there was "no place" for sexism, racism or homophobia in Australia as election rival Tony Abbott laughed off his touting of a candidate's sex appeal.

• 14 августа 2013, 10:32

A Kazakhstan-born man has been killed during the Bavarian Folk Festival in Kaufbeuren by a seven-member group of neo-Nazis.

• 22 июля 2013, 14:51

Iconic British designer John Galliano, sacked by Dior in 2011 for making drunken racist tirades, says he is "grateful" for his fall from grace because it forced him to confront his drug and alcohol demons.

• 06 июня 2013, 10:22

A French anti-racism association is launching a mobile application it hopes will help eradicate racist graffiti by enabling users to take photos of offensive tags, geo-locate them and get them removed.

• 25 мая 2013, 11:04

Kuwait is to bar foreigners from attending public hospitals in the mornings, local media reported on Thursday, in a decision activists labelled as "racist".

• 16 мая 2013, 15:00

A classic Philadelphia cheesesteak restaurant is changing its name after almost seven decades from "Chink's" because of fear of causing racial offense.

• 31 марта 2013, 11:27

Ads pegged to Google search results can be racially biased because of how certain names are associated with blacks or whites.

• 05 февраля 2013, 14:23

Liz Wills looks fearfully at the specter of his defeat by a Republican candidate she sees as gripped by the racist right.

• 04 сентября 2012, 15:11