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A former Auschwitz guard facing charges of accessory to the murder of 170,000 Hungarian Jews went on trial in Detmold, Germany on Thursday, the most recent in a sudden five-year-string of trials of former Nazis as prosecutors attempt to chase convictions for elderly suspects...

As it tries to navigate a truce to spur peace talks, the administration has become increasingly torn in between its loyalty to Turkey as a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally and to its longtime Arab partner, Saudi Arabia, and the cold pragmatism of Russian Federation.

Announced in its final form last August, the Clean Power Plan aims to reduce heat-trapping carbon pollution from power plants, which the EPA says generate 32 percent of total carbon emissions.

Last I heard, we lived in a democratic society.

An Iranian constitutional watchdog has rejected an appeal by Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the Islamic republic’s founder, against his disqualification from running as a candidate for a top clerical body.

The discussion comes following centuries of frosty relations between the two branches of Christianity.

In yet another relief to the Gandhis, the court permitted them to raise all the issues, including the locus of Subramanian Swamy, who has initiated the criminal proceedings in the Herald case.

“She has labored in various capacities all of her adult life and now she is ready to serve our country by occupying the highest office in our country”, said U.S. Representative G.K. Butterfield. She is expected to attack Sanders more aggressively on issues that matter...

Despite the agreement on potential timing of the truce and to set up the task force, the US, Russia and others remain far apart on which groups should be eligible for it.

Castro announced a partnership between the Brazilian Evandro Chagas Institute and the University of Texas in the United States, to develop a vaccine against the zika virus. These symptoms usually last for up to a week, and most people who are sick with Zika do not need hospital...

Sanders is overwhelmingly supported by voters younger than 45 years old, while Clinton’s strongest support comes from voters above that threshold. To be honest, if there was a ceiling to break in the white house, i think barack obama broke it in 2008.

Rubio won the expectations game in Iowa but had nothing to show for it in New Hampshire. Between the two of them they won 52 percent of the GOP vote in Iowa and 47 percent in New Hampshire. “I’m surprised he didn’t do better”.

The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s water office told lawmakers Wednesday that MI authorities broke federal rules requiring them to add anti-corrosive materials to drinking water pumped into Flint homes, triggering a lead-poisoning crisis.

“This is an opportunity for us as members of the public to voice our dissatisfaction with President Zuma”, said entrepreneur Christelle Scheepers, who helped organise the march.

“I never met him”, the iconic civil rights leader said.