A Syrian official says 17 people, including 10 children, have been killed in twin explosions near a school in the central city of Homs.
A Syrian official says 17 people, including 10 children, have been killed in twin explosions near a school in the central city of Homs.
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Efraim Zuroff, the top Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, tells Associated Press that in September he sent the German justice and interior ministries a list of 76 men and four women who served in the so-called Einsatzgruppen death sqauds.
A Swiss court accepts a plea agreement and convicts the former head of construction for Canadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin for bribery, corruption and money laundering, clearing the way for his extradition from Switzerland back to Canada.
AC/DC rhythm guitarist and founding member Malcolm Young is suffering from dementia, the band has confirmed in reports.
Last week, a Chinese court sentenced a human rights advocate to life in prison and confiscated all his assets, leaving his family destitute. In Hong Kong, meanwhile, a detained student protestor was released on a writ of habeus corpus. That’s what’s at stake in these demonstrations, Patrick Brown writes.
The UN mission dealing with the Ebola response has set bold goals to try and contain the outbreak, but in Liberia’s capital, medical providers like Doctors Without Borders are working flat out just to keep up. Nurse Tashan Bremond says it’s not all bad news: “We’re telling them they can be survivors.”
The former head of construction for Canadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin could find out as early as today whether his imprisonment in Switzerland will end and he’ll be extradited back to Canada.