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US Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims Nazis did not deport Jews The Nazis "were keeping Jews from leaving the country," Jeff Sessions has claimed. Meanwhile, US President Trump doubled-down on false claims about rising crime in Germany due to immigration. Thrice in two days has the administration of US President Donald Trumpmade misleading claims about Germany. Just a few hours after the president falsely stated that the crime rate in Germany had risen and that Germans were scared of immigrants, Attorney General Jeff Sessions mistakenly told an interview that the camps for migrant children at the US-Mexico border should not be compared to Nazi concentration camps because the Nazis "were keeping the Jews from leaving the country." The fact notwithstanding that many Germans find any comparison to the Holocaust anathema, considering it an event so singular and horrific that making analogies to it is disrepectful to its victims, the reaction in Germany is sure to be one of swift condemnation, just as it was to Trumpʼs tweet about crime on Monday.
Dutch police use DNA evidence to arrest 3 men with suspected links to Islamic State Authorities in the Netherlands have detained three men using DNA evidence found at a weapons cache in France. The arrests were linked to a Parisian apartment rented by a French jihadist. Dutch authorities said DNA traces of three men arrested on Monday had been found on weapons discovered at an Islamic State-linked hideout in Paris. The investigation dates back to the Brussels airport and metro bombings of March 2016which killed 32 people.
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European court rules Marine Le Pen must repay €300,000 in misspent funds The EU funds Le Pen has been ordered to repay relate to money she claimed for a parliamentary secret
Germany: Syrian man faces charges for kippah attack The attack on two men wearing kippahs — also known as yarmulkes — on a street in Berlin caused outrage in Germany. The suspect is in court on charges of hate speech and grievous bodily harm. The trial against a 19year-old Syrian man who attacked two men wearing kippahs, the traditional male Jewish head coverings also known as yarmulkes, began on Tuesday in Berlin. The attack, which wascaught on video, took place in April in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg. The disjointed images show three suspects, one of which hurled verbal abuse and struck one of the victims with his belt. The man also yelled the word "Jew" in Arabic. The attackerturned himself into authorities days later. The victims, one of whom shot the video, were not in fact Jewish. One of them, who identified himself as Adam, spoke to DW in April about the incident and explained thatthe kippahhad been a gift from a friend who had told him it was "unsafe" to wear out in the open.
Death of a young girl wakes Japan up to child abuse The court said Le Pen "has not been able to prove that her assistant performed actual work for her." The European Unionʼs General Court on Tuesday upheld a European Parliament decision to recover almost €300,000 ($347,000) fromFrench far-right politician Marine Le Penfor misspent EU funds. Following an investigation by the EUʼs Anti-Fraud Office, the European Parliament complained that Le Pen, who was a member of the European Parliament between 2009 and 2017, had unduly claimed €298,497.87 for a parliamentary assistant. Le Pen is the leader of Franceʼs far-right National Rally party, until recently known as the National Front. A statement from the General Court said it "confirms the decision of the European Parliament" to recover the money from Marine Le Pen on the grounds she "has not been able to prove that her assistant performed actual work for her." Read more: Le Penʼs ʼoutsiderʼ politics move to center stage in France Le Pen told French news agency AFP that she
would take the case to the Court of Justice, the EUʼs highest court. "This ruling is based not on the substance of the case but on a procedural aspect. We are going to appeal against this decision," she told AFP. Le Pen is not the first politician to face allegations of misusing EU funds. In 2017, eight MEPs fromBritainʼs far-right UKIP party were accused of misusing funds. In January 2018, Nigel Farage was docked half of his pay for 10 monthsafter auditors found he misspent EU money when an assistant who was engaged to work with the MEP was found to have also been working with the anti-EU UKIP party as national nominating officer, with his salary coming from the EU funds. In June 2017, then French Defense Minister Sylvie Goulard resigned from government after a preliminary investigation was launched into claims her Democratic Movement party had misused EU funds.
Yua Funato was repeatedly beaten and starved, but the pleading messages she left her mother and stepfather have shaken a nation that used to pride itself on the importance of family and community. A heartbreaking case of child abuse has rocked a nation that has traditionally prided itself on the concept of family and taking care of the most vulnerable members of society. It forced the Japanese government to start drawing up a set of emergency measures designed to stop children from being harmed by their own parents.
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