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Jobbik MP causes fatal accident

An elderly woman died of injuries caused when she was struck by a car driven by Jobbik MP Gábor Ferenczi on Tuesday morning in Ajka.

Veszprém county police are examining the circumstances of the accident. The Jobbik caucus said Ferenczi did not see the 93-year-old woman as she was pushing her bicycle across the road, because the sun was shining in his eyes.

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 23:49

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‘Kill bankers, not yourselves’ says Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn (VIDEO)

A member of the Greek parliament from the far right party Golden Dawn has urged desperate people in the country to “kill those who are responsible for their problems” rather than commit suicide. He defines “those who are responsible” as bankers.

Ilias Panagiotaros made the comments during an interview for the Dateline show broadcast by Australian network SBC.

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Le Pen calls Notre Dame suicide 'eminently political'

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has hailed Tuesday’s suicide of a far right activist opposed to gay marriage as an "eminently political act". Dominique Venner shot himself at Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, filled with 1,500 visitors at the time.

The suicide of a writer and right wing activist at the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in central Paris on Tuesday has been hailed as a political act by leaders of France’s far-right National Front party.

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 12:16

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Gentrification of Berlin sparks protests with Nazi tinge

The gentrification of rundown city neighbourhoods is a matter of anxiety and outrage worldwide just as in Vancouver. But in Berlin what started as a joke has developed into a bitter campaign with neo-Nazi overtones.

In the German capital's working-class Prenzlauer Berg neighbourhood, an influx of affluent Swabians from the country's south scooping up relatively cheap housing in what was once one of the grimmer areas of grim East Berlin has sparked fierce resistance.

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 12:23

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Behind racism in Europe

Monkeys. Rats. Niggers. By racist standards, the language was conventional. The problem was the people using them. Stockholm law enforcement officers, to be precise.

Repeatedly cited, in reports about police brutality in quelling a riot in an immigrant neighborhood on Monday, residents were in a state of shock.

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