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Warsaw to mark start of Nazis' 1942 ghetto deportation

Poland is preparing to mark one of the darkest episodes of the Holocaust, when the country's Nazi German occupiers launched an operation to kill the population of the Jewish ghetto they created in Warsaw.

Warsaw to mark start of Nazis' 1942 ghetto deportation
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Czechs pass $3.6-billion religious property restitution

Czech lawmakers passed a bill Saturday on the restitution of assets worth up to 2.95 billion euros ($3.6 billion) seized from 17 religious denominations by Czechoslovakia's communist regime in 1948-89.

Czechs pass $3.6-billion religious property restitution
A baby boy is circumcised. ©REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Debate over circumcision ruling rages in Germany

A German court decision branding the Muslim and Jewish rite of circumcising baby boys a criminal act has left disbelief, outrage and serious legal questions in its wake.

Debate over circumcision ruling rages in Germany