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Baghdad’s Green Zone US embassy hit with rockets for third time this month
Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone has come under attack with a series of rockets fired at the base. Five Katyusha rockets were launched on Sunday and crashed into a riverbank near the US embassy. One of the rockets landed inside the embassy walls. In a statement, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi condemned the attack –…
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Australian Holocaust survivor returns to Auschwitz
Australian Holocaust survivor Yvonne Engelman, now 92, has walked through the gates of Auschwitz ahead of the 75th anniversary of the Nazi concentration camp’s liberation. Holocaust survivors, world leaders and dignitaries are gathering at Auschwitz to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the camp’s liberation – including 92-year-old Australian Holocaust survivor Yvonne Engelman. Survivors from countries including…
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US won’t lift sanctions to deal with Iran
The United States will not lift sanctions on Iran in order to negotiate, US President Donald Trump has tweeted, seemingly in response to a Der Spiegel interview with Iran’s foreign minister. “Iranian Foreign Minister says Iran wants to negotiate with The United States, but wants sanctions removed. @FoxNews @OANN No Thanks!” Trump tweeted in English…
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Prince Charles praises ‘remarkable’ Iran, says he wants to visit
London: The heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, would like to make an official visit to Iran, he said in an interview with The Sunday Times newspaper. Charles however declined to address the tensions relating to the crisis in the British monarchy sparked by his son Prince Harry, who is stepping down from his royal role with…
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Netanyahu’s big hopes for US visit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he hopes to “make history” during his upcoming trip to the White House for the expected unveiling of President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan. Addressing his Cabinet shortly before departing for Washington on Sunday, Netanyahu described the current environment, characterised by close ties with Trump, as a once-in-a-lifetime…
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Holocaust Remembrance Day: Why hate, bigotry continues 75 years on
Jewish community leaders in Australia are warning the “sickness” of anti-Semitism still remains a threat 75 years after the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated. Alex Ryvchin, co-chief executive officer of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, told Nine.com.au that today’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day is a stark reminder that attacks on the Jewish community continues. “It…
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Moment of truth for peace plan
Palestinian leaders are ill-serving their people in stubbornly rejecting “everything to do with” Donald Trump’s long-awaited “Deal of the Century” Middle East peace plan, even before its full details emerge. These could be revealed in Washington this week when Mr Trump meets Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli opposition leader General Benny Gantz. Given the importance of…
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‘They’re dangerous’: Auschwitz survivor urges action on racists
The word “liberation” sounds so positive, like a celebration. But Eva Slonim says that when Russian soldiers “liberated” her from Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945, she was starving and seriously ill. In a photo displayed at Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre, the-then Eva Weiss and her sister Marta look emaciated and older than their ages…
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Lest we forget? 75 years after Auschwitz, too many do
On the eve of Monday’s 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, a new study has found that a quarter of French millennials haven’t heard of the Holocaust, while an earlier study of American millennials found that 66 per cent did not know what Auschwitz was. The findings come at a time…
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Iran strike gave US troops brain injuries
The Pentagon says 34 service members had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury following missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month, a number higher than the military had previously announced. President Donald Trump and other top officials initially said Iran’s attack had not killed or injured any US service members.…