Gypsies Remember WWII Victims At Auschwitz Ceremony
Gypsies from across Europe gathered at Auschwitz to memorialize hundreds of thousands killed in the Nazi genocide and to demand wider recognition of Roma suffering. Roman Kwiatkowski warned against forgetting the Roma Holocaust as hundreds mourned at the ruins of the gas chamber and crematorium.
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Poland
Europe
Auschwitz
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
Pean
Hungary
Czarek Sokolowski
Associated Press
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Jewish agency pays 401 million to Nazi-era slave laborers
The Jewish Claims Conference announced 401 million dollars will be distributed to more than 130,000 survivors in the final round of payments from a 6.17 billion dollar German government industry fund. Since 2001 the fund has provided 703 million in first installments. Israel Singer called the payments a small measure of justice after six decades. The fund aims to reach up to 1.9 million victims, mainly in central and eastern Europe.
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Berlin
Jewish Claims Conference
Adolf Hitler
United States
Claims Conference
Czech Republic
Poland
Russia
Israel Singer
Europe
Legal battle over Kennewick Man bones continues
The Kennewick Man dispute moves from science to law as the Umatilla Nez Perce Yakama Colville and Wanapum tribes claim the ancient 9300 year old skeleton as an ancestor and seek control over its study while the Army Corps objects citing ARPA. scientists vow further court action to access the remains.
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United States
North America
U.S. Supreme Court
Columbia River
Kennewick
Wash
Americas
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Alan Schneider
Portland, Ore
Schneider
Debra Croswell
Umatilla
Oregon
Nez Perce
Yakama
Colville
Wanapum
Kennewick Man
Croswell
Mrs Jansen Sees Peggy and Mike Learn Life Lessons
Mrs Jansen expresses happiness as Peggy and Mike begin to grasp important life lessons. The moment reflects household values and parental encouragement shaping young growth.
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Peggy
Mike
Mrs. Foster
Mrs. Jansen
Tapes reveal aid offers after deadly Station nightclub fire
Recordings released by the Rhode Island attorney general capture calls and dispatcher remarks from the West Warwick blaze on February 20, 2003. They show residents offering trucks, gloves, water and food to firefighters and police, and describe the chaotic rescue scene with screams and a busload of injured. Thirty one bodies were recovered in the club entryway as investigators note the fatal concert fire was sparked by a band's pyrotechnics.
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R.I
West Warwick
Coventry
Rhode Island Hospital
Patrick Lynch
Providence Journal
Man pleads innocent in manure attack on gay parade route
In Conway Arkansas a farmer admitted spreading about three tons of manure along a gay rights parade route, claiming First Amendment rights. Wesley Bono 35 of Greenbrier faces a Sept. 16 trial for misdemeanor harassment and possible cleanup costs.
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Ark
Wesley Bono
Greenbrier
Bono
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Phillip Beard
Christine Brown
Kabz-Fm
Little Rock
Beard
KABZ
H.G. Foster
Brown
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