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Nazi Bunker On Danish Coast Reopens As Museum

A concrete bunker jutting out of sand dunes on the Danish coast, that once was part of Hitler’s Atlantic wall, has been re-purposed as part of a new museum that was officially opened by Denmark’s Crown Prince Frederik this week. The Tirpitz Museum now hosts exhibitions showing how Denmark’s coastline was used by the occupying…

By Reuters Jun 30, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Kissinger Touts Trump Meeting With Putin As Reset For Russia Ties

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have an opportunity to mend their countries’ ties when they meet next week, former top U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger said on Friday, a day after he followed up a meeting with the U.S. president by having talks with Putin. The U.S. and Russian leaders are to have their first face-to-face…

By Reuters Jun 30, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Simone Veil, Holocaust Survivor And Feminist, Dies At 89

Simone Veil, a French politician and Holocaust survivor who secured the legalization of abortion in France in the 1970s, died at her home in Paris on Friday, her family said. She was 89 years old. A Jewish survivor of the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen with the prisoner number 78651 tattooed on her…

By Reuters Jun 30, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Mossad Sets Up $2M Fund For New High-Tech Spook Tools

Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency has set up an investment fund to help development of new cloak-and-dagger know-how and is offering grants of up to $2 million per project to bring in new ideas. A government statement on Tuesday said Mossad was seeking technologies in various fields, including robotics, miniaturization and encryption as well as new…

By Reuters Jun 27, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Madoff Sons’ Estates Pay $23M To Settle With Ponzi Trustee

The trustee recouping money for Bernard Madoff’s victims has reached more than $23 million of settlements with the estates of the swindler’s late sons and related defendants, ending more than eight years of litigation. According to a Monday court filing, the settlement will strip the estates of Andrew and Mark Madoff of “all assets, cash,…

By Reuters Jun 26, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Israel Pays $20M Compensation To Gaza Flotilla Victims

Israel has paid total compensation of $20 million to the families of the victims of an Israeli raid on a Turkish aid flotilla that killed 10 people in 2010, Turkish media quoted Turkey’s Finance Minister Naci Agbal as saying on Friday. The payment, which will be divided among the 10 families, comes some nine months…

By Reuters Jun 23, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Chile Bares Secret World War II Nazi Spy Ring

Chile police made public on Thursday archive documents relating to its investigation during World War II that uncovered how Nazi supporters in the country aided the Third Reich, including supplying information and plans to bomb mines. Young members of families of German descent in southern Chile underwent paramilitary training, while Nazi supporters in the country…

By Reuters Jun 22, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Jared Kushner Arrives In Israel For PeaceTalks

Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday, beginning a new U.S. effort to revive Middle East peace efforts. Kushner, a 36-year-old real estate developer with little experience of international diplomacy and peace negotiations, arrived in Israel early on Wednesday…

By Reuters Jun 21, 2017 | < 1 min read

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