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A Minnesota man exposed as a former commander of a Nazi-led unit during World War II has died

Poland has appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to refrain from using World War II and Holocaust victims for current political goals and pointed to wartime documents in which the Polish government called on the Allies to save Jews

Britain’s Parliament has urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to rethink part of a vital Brexit bill and restore a promise to reunite child refugees with family members in the U.K. Parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Lords, voted 300 to 220 on Tuesday to ensure that post-Brexit Britain continues letting unaccompanied migrant children elsewhere in Europe join relatives living in the U.K.  Former Prime Minister Theresa May pledged that would be the case but language to that effect was…

A winter storm lashing much of Spain has left 200,000 people without electricity, closed down schools and blocked roads

Twelve tigers and five lions have been relocated to South Africa after being rescued from circuses in Guatemala following years of abuse and confinement

A U.N. human rights panel has ruled for the first time that people fleeing the effects of climate change may be entitled to claim asylum

A Dutch court has detained for three more months a Dutch father accused of shutting his children off from the outside world for years and of physically abusing them

A court in eastern Germany has indicated that it will likely reject a Jewish man’s bid to force the removal of an anti-Semitic sculpture from a church where Martin Luther once preached