National News
Officials in Germany have charged a 90-year-old man with killing 58 Jewish people. Reports allege the man used to be a member of the SS.
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Simon Fraser University football star Bernd Dittrich was found unconscious in a university pool on Tuesday. He died Wednesday, plunging the university with 30,000 students into mourning. SFU said an undetected heart condition killed the top athlete.
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Microsoft confirmed today that the full version of its free anti-virus application, Security Essentials, will be released on Tuesday for download.
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An apparently insignificant but epoch-making event took place 20 years ago on the Austro-Hungarian border. The Pan European Picnic, held on both sides of the Iron Curtain was organised by Walburga Habsburg Douglas who explains what it meant.
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E.U. countries remember the Pan European Picnic, one of the key events that led up to the Collapse of Communism, today. Twenty years ago a picnic on the Austro-Hungarian border led to an exodus of East Germans.
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Kids do the darndest and sometimes the dumbest things that can make parents and authorities crazy. There were no stamps of approval for two Austrian children who locked themselves in postal boxes in two separate incidents.
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A tribute for late singer Michael Jackson is scheduled for September 26 in Vienna at Shoenbrunn Palace, with 90,000 fans expected to attend.
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Buddhist art treasures thought lost for 70 years have been found in the deserts of Mongolia. A Buddhist monk buried 64 crates of treasures in the Gobi desert sands during Soviet and Mongolian Communist purges in the 1930s.
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Activists from different parts of the world are in unison, Saturday, calling for an end to the ever-increasing human rights abuse in Iran.
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While all eyes have been on the Iranian election results, North Korea’s saber rattling is serious enough to warrant concern. North Korea says flatly it will “weaponize” its plutonium.
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