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December 20, 2022
First pictures of King Charles banknotes revealed
BERLIN — A former secretary who worked for the commander of a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted of complicity in the murders of more than 10,505 people.Irmgard Furchner, 97, was taken on as a teenaged typist at Stutthof and worked there from 1943 to 1945.Furchner, one of the few women to be tried for Nazi crimes in decades, was given a two-year suspended jail term.Although she was a civilian worker, the judge agreed she was fully aware of what was going on at the camp.Some 65,000 people are thought to have died in horrendous conditions at Stutthof, including Jewish prisoners, non-Jewish Poles and captured Soviet soldiers. As Furchner was only 18 or 19 at the time, she was tried in a special juvenile court.At Stutthof, located near the modern-day Polish city of Gdansk, a variety...
December 20, 2022
Irmgard Furchner: Nazi typist guilty of complicity in 10,500 murders
December 20, 2022
Ukraine to boost Belarus border defenses as Putin meets Lukashenko
December 19, 2022
Ukraine war: How pathologists identify victims of Russia's invasion
December 19, 2022
Kyiv wary of border threat as Putin heads to Belarus ahead of Russian drills
December 19, 2022
Brussels unveils new measures to crack down on human trafficking in EU
December 19, 2022
Six TV channels suspended in Moldova amid ‘misinformation’ allegations
December 19, 2022
EU gives quartet customs waiver for UK exports of veterinary medicines
December 19, 2022
Rwanda migrant plan is lawful, High Court rules
GENEVA — Humanity faces unprecedented engineering challenges if it is to survive. Solutions to these challenges are waiting to be discovered in plants, animals, and microbes, but these could be lost forever, if we do not preserve the rich diversity of life on Earth.The UN biodiversity conference, COP15, is due to wrap up on Dec. 19.. This weekend, we are looking at some of the ways that humanity is reliant on biodiversity for a healthy and thriving global ecosystem.When a species goes extinct, it takes with it all of the physical, chemical, biological, and behavioral attributes that have been selected for that species, after having been tested and re-tested in countless evolutionary experiments over many thousands, and perhaps millions, of years of evolution.These include designs for...
December 18, 2022
As biodiversity degrades, nature’s solutions are lost for ever
