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A 92-year-old former Nazi is to go on trial in October over charges he helped kill hundreds of people at the Stutthof death camp near the end of the war. Bruno D is accused of being an SS guard at the camp near Gdansk and of having been involved in the killing of 5,230 prisoners between August 1944

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...continued from last week's Irish Legal Heritage: On 1 October 1827, Daniel, Laurence, and Timothy Mara were working on the building of the police barracks in Rathcannon alongside a Mason’s Apprentice. On their way home, eight armed men pursued them, and all but Daniel Mara escaped.

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Proposals to hike meat taxes in Germany – adding around 30 cents to the price of bratwurst – have been met with public outcry. Earlier this week, MPs from the Green Party and Social Democratic Party proposed raising the seven per cent rate of VAT on meat to 19 per cent.

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A new UN convention providing for the enforcement of cross-border mediated agreements has been signed by dozens of countries. The UN Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, also called the Singapore Convention on Mediation, was adopted in December 2018 and was yes

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Staff at Mills Selig raised £630 for local suicide prevention charity PIPS after a six-hour spin-a-thon outside their Belfast city centre office. PIPS (Public Initiative for Prevention of Suicide and Self Harm) provides support to people who are considering or have considered ending their own

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