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• Albrecht Weinberg besteedde jaren aan het onderwijzen van studenten over de gruweldaapten van de nazi's nadat hij was opgesloten in Auschwitz en Belsen • Drie Auschwitz-overlevenden vertellen hun verhalen • Albrecht Weinberg, die een reeks nazi-concentratie- en vernietigingskampen overleefde en het grootste deel van zijn familie verloor tijdens de Holocaust voordat hij op 80-jarige leeftijd terugkeerde naar Duitsland, is overleden.

De onverschilligheid van de Britse Labour-partij en haperende openbare diensten zijn slechts enkele van de redenen achter de 'verbazingwekkende' instorting.

• Waterminister Rose Jackson noemt uitdroging in de Gwydir-regio 'verwoestend' nadat wetsvoorstel door de Eerste Kamer is gepasseerd • De watertoevoer naar uitgedroogde wetlands in New South Wales, waar een dringende reddingsmissie om stervende wilde dieren te redden werd ontplooid, is een stap dichter bij hervatting nadat nieuwe wetgeving door de Eerste Kamer van het staatsparlement is aangenomen. • De waterminister, Rose Jackson, vertelde het parlement donderdagavond dat de impact van het stopzetten van de waterstroom in de internationaal significante Gwydir-regio 'verwoestend' was, terwijl zij wetswijzigingen introduceerde die volgens haar het hervatten van de stroming mogelijk maken.

Europese waarnemers hebben incidenten van verwarring over ID-vereisten gezien, maar het probleem wordt niet als wijdverspreid beschouwd

• Argentinië, waar het cruiseschip MV Hondius vertrok, wordt door de WHO consequent gerangschikt als het land met de hoogste incidentie van hantavirus in de regio

• De Franse zangeres Yseult woonde het Met Gala van 2026 bij, wat haar opkomst markeert van kandidaat bij 'Nouvelle Star' tot internationaal mode-icoon. • Haar reis omvat belangrijke muzikale doorbraken, het lanceren van een onafhankelijk label en een high-profile optreden tijdens de Olympische Spelen. • De verschijning onderstreept haar groeiende invloed in mondiale entertainment- en modekringen, waarbij ze muziek combineert met hoge cultuur.

• Onthulling gemaakt tijdens voorbereidende zitting voor civiele zaak waarin vier vrouwen de influencer en zijn broer beschuldigen van verkrachting • Andrew Tate zocht schriftelijke garanties van aanklagers dat hij niet gearresteerd zou worden als hij naar het VK zou terugkeren voor een civiele zaak waarin hij wordt beschuldigd van verkrachting, aldus de rechtbank. • Advocaten van de influencer en zelfbenoemde misogynist, die is aangeklaagd voor tien strafbare feiten en door verschillende politiekorpsen wordt onderzocht, dienden dit verzoek vorig jaar in.

• Van economische problemen tot zorgen dat er elk moment opnieuw oorlog kan uitbreken, de onderliggende onrust zit diep • In de weken sinds het fragiele staakt-het-vuren met de VS en Israël in werking trad, is het leven in Teheran – in ieder geval aan de oppervlakte – grotendeels teruggekeerd naar iets dat lijkt op de normaliteit van vóór de oorlog. • Veel beveiligingscontroles zijn weggehaald, koffiezaken zijn druk, parken zitten vol met mensen die picknicken, muzikanten spelen weer op straat, snelwegen staan vast van het verkeer en de metro - die sinds de oorlog gratis is - rijdt vol.

Kurdish Syrian man, 26, said he fled forced conscription by YPG militia because he ‘didn’t want to kill people’An asylum seeker sent back to France under the controversial “one in, one out” scheme faces being returned to Syria after authorities in Paris ruled it was safe to do so, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind.When the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, announced the “groundbreaking” deal in July 2025 to stop small boats crowded with asylum seekers from crossing the Channel – by forcibly returning one small-boat asylum seeker to France in exchange for bringing one in northern France legally to the UK – they emphasised that France was a safe country for returnees. Continue reading...

Nearly 2,000-year-old artifact handed over by FBI matches piece missing from museum near Rome for decadesA nearly 2,000-year-old Roman grave marker discovered in a New Orleans backyard has now been returned to Italy.The marble epitaph – dating back roughly 1,900 years – was officially handed over to Italian officials in Rome on Wednesday during a ceremony led by the FBI. The event also marked the repatriation of another antiquity recovered in the US, the agency said. Continue reading...

• A federal appeals court has overturned a lower‑court injunction that had ordered the Trump administration to restore the flow of federal grants to several local governments, reopening billions of dollars in funding that had been withheld. • The decision follows a dispute over how the administration interprets the conditions attached to federal grants, with cities arguing that the withholding amounted to political retaliation. • The ruling could influence how future administrations may or may not condition aid on policy compliance, and it has implications for federalism and local autonomy.

Romantic poet’s letters to Fanny Brawne, dated between 1819 and 1820, had been stolen from a Long Island estateEight original handwritten letters from the Romantic poet John Keats to his muse and “one passion”, Fanny Brawne, were returned to the family of John Hay “Jock” Whitney, the former US ambassador to the UK, on Monday after being stolen from Whitney’s home in the 1980s.Keats’ letters, including the first letter he ever wrote to Brawne, are dated between 1819 and 1820. Valued at approximately $2m, the 37 letters are held in a gilt morocco-bound portfolio. Brawne was Keats’s neighbor in Hampstead, with whom he became infatuated and elevated to muse and goddess. Continue reading...

Nine-day search for two-year-old Neukgu gripped nation and sparked safety concerns for animal and publicThe internet in South Korea erupted in celebration as a two-year-old wolf that escaped from a zoo was captured safely after a nine-day search that had gripped the nation and made the animal a national celebrity.The male wolf, named Neukgu, burrowed out of his enclosure at the O-World zoo in Daejeon on 8 April. Animal rights activists questioned whether the wolf could survive outside the zoo and also worried he might be killed during capture, something that happened to a puma that escaped from the same zoo in 2018. Continue reading...

Woman denies allegations of aggravated kidnapping during Augusto Pinochet’s 1970s military dictatorshipFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA former Sydney nanny and cleaner accused by Chile of being a torturer and kidnapper for Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship in the 1970s will be extradited to Chile to face court over kidnapping allegations after losing her seven-year battle to remain in Australia.Adriana Elcira Rivas, now in her 70s, is accused of participating in the disappearances of seven people in 1976 – including a woman who was five months pregnant – while working for Pinochet’s secret police force. Continue reading...

Judge says boy should go back to his community to learn about stories and rituals ‘that can only be taught on country’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn Aboriginal child who was moved 1,700km from his remote Northern Territory community should be returned to ensure he can experience his culture, the family court has found.The boy, known as X in the court proceedings, was born in 2016, when his mother was in prison. She did not take part in the court proceedings, and the man believed to be the boy’s father only took a limited part in the case. Continue reading...

Decision came after hearing in which Subramanyam Vedam, 64, said he didn’t kill Thomas Kinser when he was 19A judge has cleared the way for the potential release of an Indian citizen who was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody last year after his Pennsylvania murder conviction was overturned following four decades in prison.The decision came the day after the four-hour hearing in which Subramanyam Vedam insisted he did not fatally shoot Thomas Kinser in 1980 and was questioned by a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lawyer. Vedam participated in the hearing remotely from the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania. Continue reading...

Dry ground, iron-rich earth and strong winds combined to create an eerie dust storm that was filmed in DenhamGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe skies of Shark Bay in Western Australia turned an eerie blood red before Tropical Cyclone Narelle made landfall, a phenomenon an expert said was caused by an iron-infused dust storm.Narelle crossed into WA on Friday, hitting the state roughly 900km north of Perth in the food bowl region. Continue reading...

Writer looked to topics such as computer engineering and life in a nursing home to produce richly researched booksTracy Kidder, an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer who turned everything from computer engineering to life in a nursing home into unexpected bestsellers, has died. He was 80.Kidder’s longtime publisher Random House confirmed his death in a statement on Wednesday: “Tracy’s gifts for storytelling and tireless reporting are an enduring reflection of the empathy, integrity, and endless curiosity he brought to everything he did.” Continue reading...