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US Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims Nazis did not deport Jews The Nazis "were keeping Jews from leaving the country," Jeff Sessions has claimed. Meanwhile, US President Trump doubled-down on false claims about rising crime in Germany due to immigration. Thrice in two days has the administration of US President Donald Trumpmade misleading claims about Germany. Just a few hours after the president falsely stated that the crime rate in Germany had risen and that Germans were scared of immigrants, Attorney General Jeff Sessions mistakenly told an interview that the camps for migrant children at the US-Mexico border should not be compared to Nazi concentration camps because the Nazis "were keeping the Jews from leaving the country." The fact notwithstanding that many Germans find any comparison to the Holocaust anathema, considering it an event so singular and horrific that making analogies to it is disrepectful to its victims, the reaction in Germany is sure to be one of swift condemnation, just as it was to Trumpʼs tweet about crime on Monday.
Dutch police use DNA evidence to arrest 3 men with suspected links to Islamic State Authorities in the Netherlands have detained three men using DNA evidence found at a weapons cache in France. The arrests were linked to a Parisian apartment rented by a French jihadist. Dutch authorities said DNA traces of three men arrested on Monday had been found on weapons discovered at an Islamic State-linked hideout in Paris. The investigation dates back to the Brussels airport and metro bombings of March 2016which killed 32 people.
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European court rules Marine Le Pen must repay €300,000 in misspent funds The EU funds Le Pen has been ordered to repay relate to money she claimed for a parliamentary secret
The court said Le Pen "has not been able to prove that her assistant performed actual work for her."
Bram Schot appointed interim chief of Audi, after arrest of CEO The German premium carmaker has moved rapidly to fill the gap left by chief executive Rupert Stadler, who was detained on Monday in connection with his role in Audiʼs emissions-cheating scandal in the US and Europe. Audi has named Bram Schot as interim chief on Tuesday, replacing CEO Rupert Stadler, who was detained on Monday on fraud charges, in connection with the emisssions-cheating scandal at Audiʼs parent company Volkswagen. The 56-year-old Netherlands-born manager was previously at the head of Audiʼs sales and
marketing division. "The supervisory board of Audi AG has decided to transfer the duties of the board of management chairman (chief executive) to Abraham Schot on a temporary basis with immediate effect," the German carmaker said in a statement, adding that it had complied with Stadlerʼs request to be temporarily relieved of his duties. Stadler had headed Audi for 11 years and was the first senior executive to be detained in the Dieselgate scandal. On Monday, prosecutors in Munich said that Stadler had appeared before the investigating judge, who ordered him to be remanded in custody.
French author Edouard Louis: Why Macron will lead voters to the far right Edouard Louis: The world is currently saturated with fiction; itʼs already structured by lies and fabrications. One of the reasons why people like Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange are persecuted is because they have showed us that governments are lying to us. When the French government claims that we
canʼt welcome migrants, itʼs a lie. Why donʼt they just say, "We donʼt want to welcome migrants," instead? That would be the truth. I am personally affected by the fact that these fictions are structuring our lives. Thatʼs why when I write, I believe it should be a space of resistance and therefore a space of truth.
Germany: Syrian man faces charges for kippah attack The attack on two men wearing kippahs — also known as yarmulkes — on a street in Berlin caused outrage in Germany. The suspect is in court on charges of hate speech and grievous bodily harm. The trial against a 19year-old Syrian man who attacked two men wearing kippahs, the traditional male Jewish head coverings also known as yarmulkes, began on Tuesday in Berlin. The attack, which wascaught on video, took place in April in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg. The disjointed images show three suspects, one of which hurled verbal abuse and struck one of the victims with his belt. The man also yelled the word "Jew" in Arabic. The attackerturned himself into authorities days later. The victims, one of whom shot the video, were not in fact Jewish. One of them, who identified himself as Adam, spoke to DW in April about the incident and explained thatthe kippahhad been a gift from a friend who had told him it was "unsafe" to wear out in the open.
Death of a young girl wakes Japan up to child abuse Yua Funato was repeatedly beaten and starved, but the pleading messages she left her mother and stepfather have shaken a nation that used to pride itself on the importance of family and community. A heartbreaking case of child abuse has rocked a nation that has traditionally prided itself on the concept of family and taking care of the most vulnerable members of society.
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