BERLIN – A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served in Auschwitz testified Wednesday he helped the death camp function in his role sorting cash and valuables seized from Jews after they arrived in cattle-cars. Oskar Groening told the Lueneburg state court in a statement read by his attorney that it …
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RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinian Authority forces arrested 100 Hamas members in the West Bank in the biggest raid of its kind in years. It was the biggest mass arrest in one night since 2007 when Palestinians split after the Islamic militant group Hamas violently ousted forces loyal to President …
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MOSCOW – An unmanned Russian cargo ship has docked successfully at the International Space Station, where it was anxiously awaited by the U.S.-Russian crew after the successive failures of two previous supply missions. The Progress M-28M ship, which is carrying 2.5 metric tons of fuel, oxygen, water, food and other …
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A Qatari company says one of its oil drilling rigs will need several months of repairs and maintenance after an accident off the Gulf nation’s coast. Gulf International Services said in a statement Tuesday that the accident happened Sunday in the offshore al-Shaheen oil and …
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Police say a senior Protestant militant has been slain with a samurai sword in his Belfast home, and an acquaintance drinking with him has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Residents of the Belvoir neighborhood in south Belfast say 47-year-old Colin “Bap” Lindsay was killed and …
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NEW DELHI – India’s top court extended an Italian marine’s medical leave Monday for another six months, allowing him to stay in Italy and continue receiving medical treatment before he and a fellow marine are formally charged in the fatal shooting of two Indian fishermen in 2012. Italy recently moved …
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BERLIN – Prosecutors in Germany have indicted a 92-year-old former Auschwitz guard on charges of accessory to murder. German news agency dpa reported Wednesday the man has been indicted before a juvenile court in Hanau, near Frankfurt, because he was between 19 and 20 years old at the time of …
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BERLIN – Germany’s Foreign Ministry says a senior official has called the U.S. ambassador to press for Washington to clear up allegations that the country’s foreign minister was a target of eavesdropping. Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer said that Stephan Steinlein, a deputy foreign minister, spoke with Ambassador John B. Emerson …
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IRBIL, Iraq – U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says a U.S. airstrike has killed a senior Al-Qaida operational commander in eastern Afghanistan. He said in a statement Friday that the airstrike killed Abu Khalil Al-Sudani on July 11. Carter called Al-Sudani a senior shura member and head of Al-Qaida suicide …
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MADRID – A wildfire racing through forested hills in northeastern Spain has forced the evacuation of several hundred people. The blaze broke out Sunday afternoon in dry woodland and was being fanned by steady winds. Within hours the fire had charred around 450 hectares (1,100 acres). Firefighters said some 400 …
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