Cholera Storm Hits Somalia Amid Famine Ravaged Villages
Cholera outbreaks sweep southwestern Somalia as famine areas strain health systems. In Dinsor Bay region five children die in 24 hours, and 30 killed since Friday in Gedo. Quarantines exceed 1,000 people amid drought and contaminated water. U.N. WFP warns 1.2 million Somalis face severe food shortages.
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Dinsor
Bay Region
Gedo
Mohamed Ali Aden-Qalinleh
Ethiopia
Kenya
Eritrea
Sudan
U.N
World Food Program
Zimbabwe farm violence escalates attack on field hands
Mobs assaulted and threatened black workers on white owned farms near Marondera, burning a tobacco farm as a wave of political violence continues. The Commercial Farmers Union said several workers were hospitalized with unclear injuries while squatters abducted a worker, amid a land dispute linked to looming elections and government restraint on policing illegal land seizures.
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Zimbabwe
Marondera
Harare
Commercial Farmers Union
Tim Henwood
Zimbawe
Robert Mugabe
Exhibition in Moscow claims Hitler skull fragment on show
Moscow officials announce an exhibit at the Federal Archives Service marking the war’s end will display what they say is Adolf Hitler’s skull fragment with a bullet hole and jaw. The claim has long been disputed with a biographer calling it fake, while officials assert the artifacts are authentic.
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Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Federal Archives Service
Moscow
Werner Maser
Aliya Borkovets
Berlin
Eva‘Braun
Playboy censures Romanian editor over harmful article
Playboy Enterprises reprimanded Romanian edition chief editor Dan-Silviu Boerescu after publication of an April issue article titled How to Beat Your Wife Without Leaving Traces. Christie Hefner, Playboy chair and CEO, denounced the piece and stated the Romanian office will not tolerate such content.
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Playboy
Playboy Magazine
Bucharest
Associated Press
Christie Hefner
Playboy Enterprises
Dan-Silviu Boerescu
My Lai massacre remembered as Vietnam ends anniversary nears
As the 25th anniversary of Vietnam’s end nears, memories of the My Lai massacre resurface. Survivors recount begging for mercy while U.S. troops killed hundreds, and Lt. William Calley’s court martial highlighted a vast cover up. Local villagers report destroyed homes and ongoing poverty amid a rebuilt village and a museum documenting the atrocity.
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My Lai
Hue
Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
Lai
Gls
U.S
Truong Tho
William L. Calley
11Th
Calley
Columbus
Truong Thi le
AP Proto My Lai
Pham Thi Thuan
Ha Thi Quy
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