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An international panel led by Swiss Professor Jean-Francois Bergier on Friday publishes its report on Swiss refugee policy during World War II. The report is likely to criticise Switzerland for ...
Eighty years on, few people are alive who remember World War II. Anne Frank would have turned ... restrictive earlier policies toward Jewish refugees. And Hiroshima warned against the potential ...
The thanksgiving service in the Abbey began with a two-minute silence, which was also observed across the UK, to remember Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender at the end of World War II ...
Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing departed for Russia ... even as China has become a more active player in the country’s civil war, particularly in Shan State, abutting the Chinese border.
MOSCOW — Russia marked the 80th anniversary of the World War II victory over Nazi Germany ... intended effect,” said Craig Singleton, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Foundation for ...
Baton Rouge honored the life of the oldest living Veteran in Louisiana Friday afternoon. "The world just lost a beautiful and ...
In a dramatic stunt aimed at Elon Musk’s growing political footprint in Europe, a 98-year-old World War II veteran drove a ... Trump’s administration in a senior advisory capacity earlier ...
This year marks a half-century since the end of the Vietnam War. A well-known memorial in Washington, DC, pays tribute to the ...
More than 60 United Nations offices, agencies and operations have been ordered to submit proposals by mid-June to cut 20% of their staff.
the United States was a world leader in refugee admissions. From taking in hundreds of thousands of Europeans displaced by World War II to welcoming those escaping from communist regimes in Europe ...
But the plans are very much alive, and it is not far-fetched to assume that their intent is to further undermine internationally agreed upon norms of refugee protection dating to World War II.