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US Holocaust Museum Strips Rights Award From Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum said Wednesday it was stripping Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi of a prestigious human rights award, accusing her of doing little to halt the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.
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No More 'Pokemon Go' At Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Memorial
It was a bit touch and go for Hiroshima officials, but the atomic bomb memorial park in the western Japanese city is now Pokemon No.
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Islamic State Committing Genocide Against Yazidis in Iraq: Report
The Islamic State group is committing genocide against Iraq's Yazidi community, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a report Thursday based on harrowing interviews detailing rape, torture and murder.
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Barack Obama Names Indian-American Fundraiser to Holocaust body
President Barack Obama is appointing Shefali Razdan Duggal, a top Indian-American fundraiser of his 2012 re-election campaign, as a member of the governing board of trustees of the US Holocaust Memorial museum that opened in 1993.
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Croatia Remembers WWII Death Camp Victims
Death camp survivors, political and religious leaders joined a ceremony on Sunday to remember the tens of thousands killed at a notorious World War II camp known as the Croatian Auschwitz.
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Obama seeks to stop Syria, Iran tech assault on activists
President Barack Obama imposed US sanctions on Monday on those who help Syria and Iran track dissidents through cell phones and computers, serving notice on technology providers that they could be held responsible for those governments' human rights abuses. Obama's announcement underscored how democracy activists have used social media tools in pr...
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US Holocaust Museum Strips Rights Award From Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum said Wednesday it was stripping Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi of a prestigious human rights award, accusing her of doing little to halt the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.
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No More 'Pokemon Go' At Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Memorial
It was a bit touch and go for Hiroshima officials, but the atomic bomb memorial park in the western Japanese city is now Pokemon No.
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Islamic State Committing Genocide Against Yazidis in Iraq: Report
The Islamic State group is committing genocide against Iraq's Yazidi community, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a report Thursday based on harrowing interviews detailing rape, torture and murder.
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Barack Obama Names Indian-American Fundraiser to Holocaust body
President Barack Obama is appointing Shefali Razdan Duggal, a top Indian-American fundraiser of his 2012 re-election campaign, as a member of the governing board of trustees of the US Holocaust Memorial museum that opened in 1993.
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Croatia Remembers WWII Death Camp Victims
Death camp survivors, political and religious leaders joined a ceremony on Sunday to remember the tens of thousands killed at a notorious World War II camp known as the Croatian Auschwitz.
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Obama seeks to stop Syria, Iran tech assault on activists
President Barack Obama imposed US sanctions on Monday on those who help Syria and Iran track dissidents through cell phones and computers, serving notice on technology providers that they could be held responsible for those governments' human rights abuses. Obama's announcement underscored how democracy activists have used social media tools in pr...
