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Oct
21
2023
By The African Mirror
Russia charges Ukrainian war veteran mistakenly honoured by Canada with genocide

Russia charges Ukrainian war veteran mistakenly honoured by Canada with genocide

WORLD
RUSSIAN investigators charged 98-year-old Ukrainian war veteran Yaroslav Hunka, mistakenly honoured by Canada last month, with genocide for serving in a German Nazi division fighting the Soviet Union in World War Two. Moscow seized on the incident, for which Canada apologised, as further justification for a full-scale invasion that Russian President Vladimir Putin said was needed to "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine and thwart the aggression of its Western allies. Russian state and military archives have "received documentary evidence of the places of deployment and the conduct of hostilities by the SS Galicia division, in which Hunka served", the federal Investigative…
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Sep
28
2021
By The African Mirror
COVID-19 pandemic cut life expectancy by most since World War Two –study

COVID-19 pandemic cut life expectancy by most since World War Two –study

COVID-19
VICTOR JACK THE COVID-19 pandemic reduced life expectancy in 2020 by the largest amount since World War Two, according to a study published by Oxford University, with the life expectancy of American men dropping by more than two years. Life expectancy fell by more than six months compared with 2019 in 22 of the 29 countries analysed in the study, which spanned Europe, the United States and Chile. There were reductions in life expectancy in 27 of the 29 countries overall. The university said most life expectancy reductions across different countries could be linked to official COVID-19 deaths. There have…
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Jun
28
2021
By The African Mirror
Israel summons Polish envoy over Holocaust property bill

Israel summons Polish envoy over Holocaust property bill

WORLD
MAAYAN LUBELL  ISRAEL summoned Poland's ambassador yesterday to express its "deep disappointment" over a Polish bill that critics say will make it harder for Jews to recover property seized by the country's Nazi occupiers during World War Two and then kept by post-war communist rulers, the foreign ministry said. Poland's lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a draft bill introducing a statute of limitations on claims for the restitution of property, drawing a furious response from Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who labelled it a "disgrace". A statement from the Israeli foreign ministry said the legislation could affect up…
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