Missing customers, Belgian restaurateur serves mannequins
Therese Mahieu began serving glasses of red wine to dummies with wigs, hats and scarves sitting at the bar this week in protest against Belgium’s COVID-19 measures.
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Former secretary of Nazi commandant charged as accessory in 10,000 murders
Case against 95-year old Irmgard F. will rely on new German legal precedent established in cases over the last decade that anyone who helped Nazi death camps and concentration camps function can be prosecuted as an accessory to the murders committed there.
Top US diplomat discusses Iran with UK, French, German counterparts
Call also touched on other issues including the coronavirus pandemic, Myanmar, Russia, China and climate change, State Department says.
'America is back,' Biden declares in first foreign policy speech
US President Joe Biden makes no mention of Iran or Israel but announces end to US support for military offensives in Yemen, Biden says Washington will continue to help Riyadh defend its sovereignty.
'Nuclear war with China or Russia a very real possibility,' top US general warns
Adm. Charles Richard, head of US Strategic Command, stressed that while the prospect of nuclear war is "low," it is not "impossible, particularly in a crisis." The assessment comes as the US and Russia extended the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty for five years.
German cabinet recognizes IHRA as international institution
Berlin's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas says "Holocaust denial, distortion worldwide reached new shameless lows in the past year."
Biden administration vows to champion IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
"We applaud the growing number of countries and international bodies that apply it," State Department official says of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism. American Jewish Committee lauds the US for its "solid reaffirmation of American leadership in the global fight" against the phenomenon.
Arkansas lawmakers mull making Holocaust education mandatory
The move comes a few months after a report by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany found that the state ranked last in Holocaust knowledge.
Official: US to resume financial aid to Palestinians
Cutting aid to the Palestinian Authority has proven ineffective, State Department Spokesman Ned Price says. Prior to cuts imposed by the Trump administration, the United States was the single largest donor country to the Palestinian Authority.
Daughter of Warsaw Zoo directors who saved Jews, dies
Teresa Zabinska-Zawadzki dies at age 77. Yad Vashem Holocaust Institute has recognized the Zabinskis as Righteous Among the Nations for having risked the family’s lives in order to save Jewish lives.