Holocaust survivors – staring down history’s demons
Rudolf Hoess tried to perfect the extermination process at Auschwitz. Seventy years later, survivors returned – gloriously, irrepressibly alive.
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Rudolf Hoess tried to perfect the extermination process at Auschwitz. Seventy years later, survivors returned – gloriously, irrepressibly alive.
Vladimir Putin’s absence from events marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp shows how Europe is still bitterly divided over the legacy of the Holocaust.
Muslim protesters have taken to the streets around the world to voice their opposition to Charlie Hebdo cartoons. In Niger ten people are reported dead as protesters turn violent and burn churches.
Lebanon’s military storm the country’s biggest prison, which they say has become an “operations room” for the Islamic State group, as fears increase of the terror group’s presence at the border.
Hackers aligned to Islamic State militants have hacked the Twitter and YouTube account of the US Army’s Central Command and posted what it claims are the home addresses of US generals and army chiefs.
The arrival of the first ship of the new year brought tears of joy to its tired and famished human cargo. But with the Ezadeen comes a serious and seemingly intractable problem for the EU.
A Jordanian jet fighter pilot is taken prisoner by the Islamic State after his plane crashed, but the US dispels claims from the militants they shot it down.
Expect Gen Dempsey and many other voices to grow louder in the coming weeks that more must be done with ground forces if IS is to be dislodged.
North Korea threatens the United States, calling it a “cesspool of terrorism” and accusing the Obama administration of being behind the satirical film The Interview.
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot by the Taliban, has attacked the “atrocious and cowardly” killing of more than 100 schoolchildren in Pakistan by the Islamist extremists.
Twitter and Facebook is playing a key role in contributing to the volatile atmosphere in Israel following today’s killings, with everything from cartoons to Kit-Kats being used in the propaganda war.
The video is horrific, but it provides intelligence services with clues about how IS leaders think, critically important for those seeking more effective ways to defeat this death cult.
A video purporting to show the murder of US aid worker Peter Kassig by the Islamic State group is released online.
Hope and desperation live side by side in Sierra Leone, as success in treating the Ebola virus confronts a still growing trail of infections.
With reported sightings in three continents in a matter of months, the story of Samantha Lewthwaite – the widow of 7/7 London bomber Germaine Lindsay – is becoming absurd.