Palestinians protest over Arafat loyalist pick for security chief
Disgruntled Palestinians clash with security forces as militants burn offices in Ramallah and Gaza. They oppose Moussa Arafat, Yasser Arafat’s cousin named to head Palestinian security, urging reform and new faces amid ongoing internal unrest and corruption concerns. A Reuters reporter was wounded in Rafah firefight.
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Plotters of Hitler coup get honors
Germany marked the 60th anniversary of the July 20 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler with tributes to Col. Claus Graf Stauffenberg and other officers. Protestant Bishop Wolfgang Huber urged pride in the resistance, while debates about motives and public interest rose with films and books.
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Roundup memory of French Jews marked in Paris ceremony
In Paris and across France hundreds gathered at the Square of Jewish Martyrs to commemorate the 1942 Velodrome d Hiver roundup. Officials including Michel Barnier and Hamlaoui Mekachera attended as Paris Mayor Bertrand Delan ce laid a wreath. About 75 000 Jews were deported from France, with 2 500 surviving. Anti semitic acts have risen amid Middle East tensions.
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