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Case against former Auschwitz medic has been discontinued as the 96-year-old Nazi is suffering from dementia The undated photo provided by the Archive of the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau shows SS Oberscharfuehrer Hubert Zafke. Zafke, now 95, is scheduled to go on trial at the end of February 2016. In what could be the end of high-profile Nazi trials, a German court officially dropped its case against a 96-year-old former Auschwitz medic because he has dementia. The decision on Tuesday came after Hubert Zafke was found unfit to stand trial for his role in the murder of more than 3,600 people at the Nazi death camp. German prosecutors submitted a motion last month to the Neubrandenburg state court asking it to dismiss the case. The conviction of John Demjanjuk in 2011 had launched several high-profile trials of Nazi camp guards, including Oskar Groening in 2015 and Reinhold Hanning in 2016, according to AFP Former Auschwitz medic Hubert Zafke arrives in a wheelchair ahead of his t

St. Louis police fire tear gas as people brake windows at a library, a restaurant and a home and throw bricks and water bottles at officers A lone protester is seen as law enforcement officers advance behind him during a protest in St. Louis, Missouri on September 15, 2017.    Police using tear gas and rubber bullets clashed with demonstrators in St. Louis in the early hours of Saturday after a white former policeman was acquitted of murdering a black suspect. A peaceful protest over Friday's not guilty verdict turned violent after police confronted a small group of demonstrators - three years after the police shooting of another black suspect in the nearby suburb of Ferguson stirred nationwide anger and debate. Officers fired tear gas as people broke windows at a library, a restaurant and a home and threw bricks and water bottles at officers. Eight officers were injured, police said. Former city policeman Jason Stockley, 36, was found not guilty of the first-degree mur

Residents are evacuated as armed police carry out raid in connection to 'significant' arrest made earlier in the day      An armed police officer stands guard outside the Horse Guards Parade in central London British police have carried out an armed raid in the southern county of Surrey on Saturday as security forces attempt to track down those behind the London commuter train bombing that injured 30 people on Friday. Nearby residents have been evacuated as a precautionary measure. Earlier in the day, police arrested an 18-year-old man in the southern port of Dover in a what British Interior Minister Amber Rudd called a "very significant" development. The Surrey raid is reported to be connected to the arrest made in Dover. Prime Minister Theresa May put Britain on the highest security level of "critical" late on Friday, meaning an attack may be imminent, and soldiers and armed police deployed to secure strategic sites and hunt down the perpetrat

      A picture taken on January 21, 2016, shows Yisrael Kristal sitting in his home in the Israeli city of Haifa. Photo: SHULA KOPERSHTOUK/AFP The world's oldest man, Yisrael Kristal, has died at 113.Mr Kistral died on Friday, according to Israeli media.The Holocaust survivor had been certified the world's oldest man by the Guinness World Records last year.  "Yisrael Kristal... died on Friday a month before his 114th birthday," Haaretz Daily reported online. Mr Kristal has lived through both World Wars and survived Auschwitz.He lost his wife and two children in the Holocaust, according to The Independent. Mr Kristal was born in Zarnow, in what is now Poland, on September 15, 1903.After World War Two, he emigrated to Israel in 1950 and settled in the city of Haifa with his second wife and his son. When receiving his Guinness World Record certificate last year, Mr Kristal said: “I don’t know the secret for long life. I believe that e

   An Egyptian antiquities worker works in the recently discovered tomb of Amenemhat, a goldsmith from the New Kingdom, at the Draa Abu-el Naga necropolis near the Nile city of Luxor, south of Cairo, Egypt, September 9, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany Egypt has announced the discovery in the southern city of Luxor of a pharaonic tomb belonging to a royal goldsmith who lived more than 3,500 years ago during the reign of the 18th dynasty. The tomb is located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery where noblemen and top government officials are buried. Antiquities minister Khaled el-Anany said the tomb is not in good condition, but it contains a statue of the goldsmith and his wife as well as a funerary mask. He said a shaft in the tomb contained mummies belonging to ancient Egyptian people who lived during the 21st and 22nd dynasties. Mummies found in the New Kingdom tomb that belongs to a royal goldsmith in a burial shaf

    Al Shabaab militants parade new recruits after arriving in Mogadishu from their training camp south of the capital on October 21, 2010 file photo.   Heavy fighting erupted on Monday in the Somali border town of Balad Hawo near Kenya after Al Shabaab detonated a suicide car bomb and then stormed the military base there, the spokesman of the al Qaeda-linked group told Reuters.  Al Shabaab, which wants to impose its strict interpretation of Islam in Somalia, has carried out frequent past attacks in Mogadishu and elsewhere in its bid to topple the Western-backed government and drive out African Union peacekeeping troops. "First, a mujahid with a car bomb rammed into the military base and then we stormed it," the spokesman, Abdiasis Abu Musab, said. The group also said 24 Somali soldiers were killed in the raid, but a Somali military official put the figure at around 10 dead soldiers.   "We were awoken by a suicide car bomb

Zimbabwe's First Lady says she was victim of assault Group representing model dismisses Mugabe "lies" Diplomatic immunity being challenged in court Zimbabwe's First Lady, Grace Mugabe, has denied assaulting a South African model with an electric cable in hotel suite last month, claiming the "intoxicated and unhinged" model attacked her with a knife. In a previously unreported August 17 deposition seen exclusively by Reuters, Mugabe countered 20-year-old Gabriella Engels' version, portraying herself as the victim after intervening on behalf of her adult sons Chatunga and Robert Junior who were "in trouble with a drunken young woman". Gabriella Engels looks on during a media conference in Pretoria, South Africa The statement said Grace Mugabe (52) and a contender to replace her 93-year-old husband as Zimbabwe's president, was thinking about filing attempted murder charges. A group represent

One of the 29 passengers injured in the blast. British Prime Minister Theresa May rebuked Donald Trump in a diplomatic row over the Parsons Green tube attack after he suggested those responsible had been "in the sights of Scotland Yard". Mrs May called the intervention by the US president "unhelpful", as he appeared to claim Britain needed to be "tougher" and more "proactive" in the fight against terrorism. The row threatened to undermine the special relationship and intelligence sharing arrangements between the UK and US. Mr Trump, not for the first time, also used the attack to justify his controversial proposed travel ban on people from some predominantly Muslim countries entering the US. Following a backlash against his comments the president said he would be telephoning Mrs May "right now". Summarising that call, a White House spokesman said: "He conveyed his sympathies and praye

  CCTV stills handed out by the Metropolitan Police of a man wanted for questioning after a 14-year-old girl was raped in a south-east London park in broad daylight: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire A 14-year-old girl was raped in a south-east London park in broad daylight. The teenager was attacked in a secluded area in Avery Hill Park, off Avery Hill Road, in Greenwich. The Metropolitan Police said the assault happened between 9am and 1pm on Monday September 4. Officers have released images of a man they would like to speak to in connection with the incident. A spokesman said: "The attacker is described as a black male believed to be in his 20s, of slim build, with short black hair and a moustache. "He was wearing sand-coloured combat trousers, dark shoes which might have been blue, and a grey drawstring bag. "He was also wearing sunglasses with black, round lenses." Police said the victim was being su