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February 28, 2025
Report reveals Tempi train crash was a result of human error, outdated infrastructure
NEW YORK — Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor who endured both German and Japanese oppression but lived for eight decades beyond the end of World War II, has died at age 113. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Reha Bennicasa.She was the oldest known living Holocaust survivor according to the New York-based Claims Conference, which administers compensation from Germany to victims of the Nazis.Bennicasa, who is also a Holocaust survivor, said Girone died at a nursing home in Bellmore, New York, on Monday.Girone, whose name at birth was Rosa Raubvogel, was born in 1912 into a Jewish family in southeastern Poland, then part of Russia. As a child, she moved to Hamburg, Germany.In 1937, she married a German Jew named Julius Mannheim. When she was nine months pregnant, her...
February 28, 2025
Rose Girone, the oldest known Holocaust survivor, has died at age 113
LONDON — Despite divisions between east and west, Europe's standards of functioning democracy remain high, even as global standards decline, according to a study released on Thursday by the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).The latest Democracy Index shows that after a year of elections worldwide, global democracy has weakened, with 2024 continuing a trend of "democratic malaise", the report finds.“While autocracies seem to be gaining strength, as shown by the index trend since 2006, the world’s democracies are struggling,” Joan Hoey, director for the Democracy Index said in a release.The annual study assesses five categories — electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, functioning of government, political participation, political culture —...
February 27, 2025
Europe maintains fragile democratic stability amid global decline, new study finds
February 27, 2025
Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on the European Union
February 27, 2025
Satellite images show how North Korean troops were likely transported to a secluded Russian port
February 27, 2025
Leaked recordings challenge Greek account of deadly shipwreck
February 27, 2025
Zelensky to meet Trump in Washington to sign minerals deal
February 27, 2025
Starmer: Ukraine needs US security guarantee to deter Putin
February 26, 2025
BP to slash green investment and ramp up gas and oil
February 26, 2025
Ukraine official says minerals deal agreed with US
