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North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un urges top officials to read Hitler’s Mein Kampf
North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un has reportedly given copies of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” to his top officials, urging them to study it as a leadership skills manual. Kim handed out translations of the German dictator’s manifesto to select officials at the time of his birthday in January, reported New…
Young American pianist resurrects lost works of Nazi concentration camp inmates
Nicholas Biniaz-Harris is a young American classical pianist who is more at home performing Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff than the obscure works of Nazi concentration camp inmates. But as the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, the 17-year-old Washingtonian felt a special attachment to the variations on a Polish patriotic theme…
Court rules Pirate Bay co-founder can be extradited from Sweden to Denmark
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is accused of involvement in one of Denmark’s biggest hacking attacks The Swedish co-founder of the Pirate Bay file-sharing website can be extradited to Denmark to face hacking charges, a Swedish court has ruled. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is accused of involvement in one of Denmark’s biggest hacking…
Russian lawmakers back bill to ban foreign adoptions by same sex couples
Russian lawmakers on Tuesday backed a bill which would place tough restrictions on adoption to countries where same-sex marriages are legal, following France’s vote last month allowing such unions. The bill could ban people in over a dozen countries from adopting Russian orphans even if they are single, according to…
U.S. to meet with Taliban ‘within days’
WASHINGTON — The United States on Tuesday welcomed the Taliban’s decision to open an office in Qatar and senior US officials said they hoped to meet with their Afghan foes within days. “I think the US will have its first formal meeting with the Taliban, and the first meeting with…
Man busted with 30 exotic animals for ‘mini zoo’ in Singapore
More than 30 wild animals, including pythons, tortoises, a slow loris and a marmoset have been seized from a flat in Singapore in the city’s largest such haul of banned wildlife in more than a decade, a government agency said Tuesday. The owner, who kept the animals in a public…
Families occupy unfinished homes in Spain
The washbasin in Juana Alonso’s bathroom is brand new, but no water comes out of the tap. No bulbs hang from the light fittings. The house is unfinished; no one was meant to be moving in — but Juana couldn’t wait. Along with dozens of neighbours, desperate victims of Spain’s…
Developed nations show high support for same sex marriage
By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) – Most adults in developed countries favor gay marriage or some type of legal recognition for same-sex couples and think they should be able to adopt children, according to an international poll released on Tuesday. With the U.S. Supreme Court poised to rule on…
Hungarian prosecutors charge 98-year old Nazi with war crimes
By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old man who tops the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center’s wanted list with war crimes, saying he had helped to deport Jews to Auschwitz in World War Two. Laszlo Csatary was found guilty in absentia in 1948 of whipping…
Ahmadinejad meets successor after election
Iran’s outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met his successor Hassan Rowhani on Tuesday for the first time since the moderate conservative was elected, in talks centred on political and economic issues. Rowhani, a 64-year-old cleric who is scheduled to take office on August 3, won an outright victory in Friday’s presidential…
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