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Former Nazi camp guard, 101, gets five-year jail sentence
AFP, Published on 28/06/2022
» BRANDENBURG AN DER HAVEL (GERMANY) - A German court on Tuesday handed a five-year jail sentence to a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person so far to go on trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust.
'I am innocent': ex-Nazi guard, 100, tells German court
AFP, Published on 09/10/2021
» BRANDENBURG AN DER HAVEL (GERMANY) - A 100-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person charged with complicity in the murder of thousands of detainees, told a German court on Friday that he was not guilty.
Germany charges Nazi camp secretary with complicity in murders
AFP, Published on 05/02/2021
» BERLIN - German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people, in the first such case in recent years against a woman.
Nepali climbers return home on top of the world after K2 triumph
AFP, Published on 26/01/2021
» KATHMANDU - Nepali mountaineers who conquered one of the world's most treacherous peaks returned home to a rapturous welcome Tuesday, with cheering supporters hailing their first-ever winter summit of K2 as a triumph for their Himalayan nation.
Ex-Nazi camp guard, 93, gets two-year suspended sentence
AFP, Published on 23/07/2020
» HAMBURG: A 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard was handed a suspended sentence of two years on Thursday for complicity in World War II atrocities, in what could be one of the last such cases of surviving SS guards.
Sebastian Kurz: Austria's right-wing 'Wunderkind'
AFP, Published on 02/01/2020
» VIENNA - After becoming the world's youngest elected leader in 2017 at age 31, Austria's Sebastian Kurz has pulled off yet another surprise.
Nepali climber claims new speed record for world's 14 highest peaks
AFP, Published on 29/10/2019
» KATHMANDU: A Nepali mountaineer on Tuesday smashed the record for summiting the world's 14 highest peaks, racing up all "8000ers" in just seven months, according to a post on his social media accounts.
Ex-SS concentration camp guard goes on trial in Germany
AFP, Published on 06/11/2018
» BERLIN - A former SS guard, aged 94, goes on trial Tuesday in Germany charged with complicity in mass murders at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, in a case bearing symbolic and moral weight.
Influential US preacher Billy Graham dies at 99
AFP, Published on 21/02/2018
» WASHINGTON: Reverend Billy Graham, the influential Southern preacher who became a spiritual advisor to several US presidents and millions of Americans via their television sets, has died, his family said Wednesday. He was 99.