Her grandfather drove trains to Auschwitz. My family was murdered there
Amie, a descendant of a Holocaust survivor, meets Cornelia, who is untangling her family’s Nazi past.>read more at © BBC…
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US issues pause on foreign aid, leaked memo says
The State Department notice appears to affect everything from development assistance to military aid.>read more at © BBC…
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Indian Governor Offers $1 Million to Anyone Who Can Decipher This 5,300-year-old Writing System
An Indian state governor has offered a $1 million reward to anyone who can prove definitively they’ve deciphered the script of the Indus Valley Civilization. One of the oldest urban societies in history, the Indus Valley, or Harappan people began building settlements in the Indus River Valley in Pakistan/India 5,500 years…
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Breakthrough Single-Dose Drug Wipes Out Breast Tumors in Mice Without Side Effects
In the search for better and better treatments for breast cancer, medical researchers at the Univ. of Illinois have synthesized a remarkable substance. In small tumors, a single dose of ErSO-TFPy eliminated them entirely, while the same dose significantly shrank large tumors. In both mice and rats, no deleterious side effects…
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People Are Paid to Return Coffee Cups in This City–Spoiler Alert, it Worked
Three years after the Danish city of Aarhus launched an initiative to cut back on carry-out coffee cups, three-quarters of a million cups have been reused. This has resulted in €514,000 being paid out in the form of little €70-cent rebates to conscious consumers who return their coffee cups to depositories…
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Woman assaulted in Facebook Marketplace nightmare
An elderly woman has been badly injured in a Facebook Marketplace sale that went horribly wrong.>read more at © 9News…
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Israel delays withdrawal from Lebanon days out from ceasefire deadline
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is blaming the Lebanese Army’s delay in taking control of southern Lebanon, insisting the IDF has to stay in place.>read more at © abc news…
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