A Singapore court on Friday sentenced an Australian man to five and a half years in prison for killing an elderly Singaporean man and hurting his wife with a thrown wine bottle, in what the judge called an act of religious hostility toward Muslims.

Singapore sentences Australian for hurling bottle, killing man in 'act of religious hostility toward Muslims'

The Senate unanimously approved a bill that would make lynching a federal hate crime, explicitly criminalizing a heinous act that has become a symbol of the nation’s history of racial violence.

US Congress gives final approval to make lynching a hate crime

Exactly two years after a 25-year-old black man Ahmaud Arbery was murdered in Georgia, a federal jury has now found three white men guilty on all counts in the hate crime case.

US: Three held guilty in Arbery hate crime case

A cab driver from the Sikh community was assaulted outside the JFK International Airport in New York in yet another case of hate crime in the United States. A video has gone viral on social media, showing an unidentified man using expletives and repeatedly throwing punches on the Indian-origin man, causing his turban to fall on the ground.

Indian-origin Sikh taxi driver assaulted at US airport in suspected hate crime

After the death of a 23-year-old Indian student in Canada, India’s high commission in Ottawa has urged the Canadian government to make sure all Indian citizens are safe in the country.

India asks Canada to protect nationals from 'hate related' crime after murder of a student

In 2020, hate crimes in the United States rose to the highest level in more than a decade, largely driven by a spike in assaults against people of Asian and African heritage, an FBI report has stated.

Hate crimes in US spiked 6% in 2020, highest in 12 years: FBI report

Several hundred mourners joined a public funeral service on Saturday to bid farewell to a Canadian Muslim family run over and killed by a man in a pick-up truck on last Sunday in an attack the police said was driven by hate.

Muslim victims of truck attack given farewell with coffins draped in Canadian flags

Thousands of people marched on Friday in support of a Canadian Muslim family run over and killed by a man driving a pick-up truck on last Sunday in an attack the police described as a hate crime.

Thousands march in support of Muslim family killed in truck attack in Canada

4 members of a Pakistani-origin Muslim family were killed and one was left injured after a pickup truck targeted them in an attack motivated by hate. The Canadian police called it a 'premeditated' attack.

Pakistani-origin Muslim family of 4 killed in 'premeditated' truck attack in Canada

After four members of a Muslim family were killed in what police described as a targeted hate crime, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau assured Muslims in London, Ontario, and around the country today that his government is with them.

‘We stand with you’: Trudeau tells Muslims as he vows to combat Islamophobia

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Saturday that world leaders and tech firms looking to stamp out violent extremism online would need to focus efforts on understanding social media algorithms that drive content.

New Zealand PM says to fight hate, study social media algorithms 

A man in the US shot who six people at a birthday party in Colorado on Sunday was upset for not being invited to the gathering.The birthday party was thrown by Sandra Ibarra’s family who had been in a relationship with the shooter for nearly a year.

Jealous boyfriend killed 6 people at birthday party 'for not being invited'

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty and file hate crime charges against the man accused of shooting dead eight people, including six women of Asian origin, in attacks on three spas in the southern US state of Georgia.

Death penalty, hate crime charges sought in Georgia spa shootings

A New York man has been arrested and charged with assaulting a 65-year-old Asian woman in a hate crime. The said attack was captured on a video that went viral amid a rise in anti-Asian incidents in the United States.

Suspect in NYC attack on Asian woman charged with assault as a hate crime

A year ago, Georgia was one of four states that had no hate crime legislation. But the deadly rampage last week that left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent, is now providing a test of a law passed last year — and a window into the way that the state’s increasingly diverse electorate has altered its political and cultural chemistry.

Why some Georgia lawmakers want last week’s shootings labelled hate crimes

Hate crimes are there highest level in US according to FBI annual report. These instances of hate crime began to rise from 2016-2017, that's during Donald Trump Presidency.

FBI Releases Its Annual Report On Hate Crime In US

A proposed anti-discrimination law that specifically recognises LGBT+ hate crimes in Italy is set to be voted on in the lower house of parliament later on Tuesday (October 27).

Will Italy introduce its first ever LGBT+ hate crime law?

Misogyny should be made a hate crime in England and Wales, the independent body that recommends legal change said on Wednesday, as it launched a consultation on updating hate crime laws.

Misogyny should qualify as a hate crime, UK legal regulator says

The FBI has concluded the investigation on Tuesday on the noose found in the garage stalls of NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace and said that the rope was no evidence of racist hate crime but an object that had been there for months.

'Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime as per FBI investigation': NASCAR

An Indian restaurant in the Sante Fe City of New Mexico, owned by a Sikh, was broken into and vandalised with hate messages scrawled on its walls. The damage caused to India Palace restaurant is estimated to be worth USD 100,000, local Santa Fe Reporter said.

Indian restaurant vandalised in US with hate messages scrawled on walls

A man in Australia's New South Wales has been charged in an apparent gay hate crime that happened almost 30 years ago. Scott Price, 49, has been charged with murdering a 27-year-old Johnson in 1988.

Australian charged in gay hate crime in 1988 death of American man

More than 160 cars were vandalised in a Palestinian neighbourhood of Jerusalem with anti-Arab slogans scrawled nearby, Israeli police said Monday, in a suspected hate crime.

160 Palestinian cars vandalised in suspected hate crime: Police

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