Portugal honors diplomat who saved Jews
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Portugal made good Tuesday on a promise to help restore the reputation of one of its diplomats who saved thousands of Jews during World War II, only to be fired in disgrace by his neutral government over fears of angering Nazi Germany.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown praised Portugal for ushering in the EU's landmark reform treaty, signed here Thursday, but refused to comment on his absence from the official signing ceremony.
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Yasser Arafat, fighting for his life in a French hospital Thursday, triggered a war of words about his legacy: Palestinians hailed a freedom fighter who saved them from national extinction; Jewish leaders welcomed the imminent death of a terrorist.
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VIENNA -- Paying tribute to a key figure in the attempt to kill Adolf Hitler, Austria's president yesterday unveiled a plaque that praised an Austrian officer executed by the Nazis as a symbol of resistance to the German dictator.
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Nominations close for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, and among the entrants is a 98-year-old Briton who saved 700 Czech-Jewish children from the Nazis.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Deep in the library of Munib  Masri's mansion, between a portrait of Yasser Arafat and a rack  of Bedouin flintlock pistols, lies a biography of Edmond de  Rothschild -- the man whose fortune helped found modern Israel.
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VATICAN CITY, JAN. 9, 2005 ( Zenit.org ).- John Paul II named Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger of Paris as his special envoy to the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau ...
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The main successor agency to the KGB on Wednesday gave a top Russian rabbi copies of archival documents on Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat credited with saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps.
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Israel&#39;s foreign minister praised France on Tuesday for taking steps to stem a four-year wave of violence against French Jews that shows no signs of easing.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 5 (IPS) - Portugal, the new holder of the European  Union's rotating presidency, has promised that Africa will  be one of its key priorities for the next six months.
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The Jewish State's first gold medal is hailed as a salve for the pain of the Munich massacre
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The movie "Olga," the true tale of a Jew who was expelled from Brazil only to die in Nazi Germany, was chosen on Tuesday by Brazil's culture ministry to compete for a foreign film Oscar in 2005.
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The conductor Daniel Barenboim, already a contentious figure among fellow Israelis for championing Palestinians' rights and the works of Hitler's favorite composer, has accepted honorary Palestinian citizenship.
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From the adoration of Yasser Arafat, youâd think he was a notable humanitarian instead of a cold-blooded killer, -- a statesman instead of the head of a fascist gang willing to wade through an ocean of blood, and climb a mountain of corpses, to arrive
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- The White House on Thursday paid tribute to United Nations envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello who was killed in the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad one year ago.
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Some 160 Jewish leaders, rabbis and cantors plan to meet with Pope John Paul II on Tuesday to thank him for his efforts to improve relations between Roman Catholics and Jews.
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LISBON, Portugal  - Portugal planned a national day of mourning Tuesday for Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions in the town of Fatima.